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Charlie 12 (Bill) mentioned Tom Ed McHugh in association with Risk Management, Inc.
Ole Tom Ed used to be mayor of Baton Rouge.
One day the mailman brought me a tax bill renewal for my occupational license, $360.00. This was a tax most Baton Rougeans didn't pay, as they work for someone else. If you dare to go into business for yourself and HOPE to succeed, they penalize you in the form of a tax.
This upset me soooooooooo much, I took them 360,000 pennies, took me four trips to get them all to the fourth floor of the governmental building.
They refused to take them. Tom Ed and his thug showed up, the cop/thug said, and I quote, "you have 10 minutes to get yourself and your pennies out of MY building."
The TV crew from WBRZ caught it via scanner, THEY showed up and filmed me hauling all my pennies out the building.
It appeared on the 5pm news. Since Tom Ed refused to accept my pennies, little did he know I no longer owed the tax. On the SIX PM news, the newscaster had talked to Tom Ed, now Tom Ed wanted me to bring back my pennies, which I did.
True story. It's been all over the internet years ago, forgot all about it till Bill reminded me.