I award this week’s BAMF of the Day title to Thomas Daigle of Milford, Massachusetts. Out of a desire to make his final mortgage payment on his home, where he has lived for thirty-five years, “memorable,” he made his final $620 payment in pennies. Specifically, 62,000 pennies, weighing eight hundred pounds.

Daigle always wanted to make his last payment “memorable,” he told the Milford Daily News. He and his wife Sandra moved into their current home in 1977, and from then on, he began saving just a few pennies a day. After a few years, the coins’ original container — a grape crate — began to budge, so Daigle purchased two military rocket launcher ammo boxes to hold his bounty.

I feel like I should repeat that last clause, for the sake of history.

Daigle purchased two military rocket launcher ammo boxes to hold his bounty.

Thomas Daigle: serving up sarcasm in rocket launcher ammo boxes. Do not mess with this man.

Photo credit: ‘U.S. pennies’ by Roman Oleinik (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.