US man pays off mortgage with pennies

A man who pledged to make the last mortgage payment onhis home with pennies has fulfilled that promise.
After warning his bank, Thomas Daigle dropped off about 62,000 pennies weighing800 pounds (360 kilograms) in two boxes for the final payment on the home heand his wife, Sandra, bought in 1977.
He tells The Milford Daily News (http://bit.ly/NseYqK ) he just wanted to makehis last payment on April 24 "memorable."
He started saving his pennies when he moved in.
The optician says his wife laughed whenever he would pick up a penny he foundon the ground and say it was going to the mortgage.
Daigle says he's just glad to have the coins out of his house.

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