Timothy Norris paid the $600 he owed in property taxes last week with 600 folded one dollar bills. And after he refused to leave the tax office in Wichita Falls, Texas, he was hauled out by police.
According to Norris' arrest affidavit obtained by the Times Record News, Wichita County Tax Assessor Collector Tommy Smyth asked the 27-year-old to leave the office after delivering the stack of tightly folded bills because he was "disrupting the operation and efficiency of the tax office."
When Norris refused, he was arrested and charged with criminal trespass. As the deputy grabbed Norris' arm to place him in handcuffs, Norris pulled away. He pulled away again when the deputy went to grab his arm a second time, causing the deputy and Smyth to wrestle Norris to the ground to detain him — bringing an additional charge of resisting arrest.
The dollar bills were so intricately folded, Smyth claims, that it "required tax office personnel approximately six minutes to unfold each bill."
[H/T NY Daily News // Image via Wichita County Sheriff's Office]
