Forbes reports that a Wichita Falls man was arrested while attempting to pay his $600 property tax bill with one dollar bills.

Only there’s a little bit more to the story than that. The 27-year old Texan, Timothy Andrew Norris, arrived in person at the Wichita County Courthouse to pay his $600 property tax with individual dollar bills – only there was a twist. Or, er, a fold. Norris had allegedly folded each bill so tightly that it “required tax office personnel approximately six minutes to unfold each bill.” If you’re doing the math, that means that it would take 3,600 minutes – or 60 hours, longer than a work week – to unfold the bills.

Norris was clearly within his rights as legal tender is an acceptable form of payment under Tex. Tax. Code 31.06.  The real trouble began when a crowd started forming around the spectacle prompting  Wichita County Tax Assessor-Collector Tommy Smyth to ask Norris to leave.  When he refused, Norris was arrested for criminal trespass and then compounded the problem by resisting arrest.  My guess is that he will be able to generate a considerable defense fund to fight off the charges.   And one can only wonder how long it took Norris to fold the dollar bills so tightly.