Man arrested for spending $2 bills at Best Buy

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In Maine they give out $2 bills at the strip club so it's a running joke around here if anyone has a $2 but this is ridiculous are people today this uneducated and paranoid?!!

 

You hear these stories come up, it isnt a surprise. I get looks when I spend them or half dollars.

 

This was on Snopes from old sources!!! Don't let this get out of hand, it seems like trying to spark political discussion. Since it is over 8 years old , it is history. Please heed warning. Talk about $2 bills but keep the political leaning out of it!!

from snopes

 

More people seem to get in trouble by trying to pay a bill in an unusual way.

 

Should be lucky that person had money to pay the bill in the first place!

Bad times are a brewing....

 

8 years old but.....

I LOVE paying for stuff with $2's! Anything. People get all wide-eyed, scramble to see if they have enough cash on them to buy them out the till. They yell to their manager, "where do I put these in the till!?"

I got one last payday stamped "Two dollar bills are not rare. You can spend me anywhere!"

 

don't forget they take off less

 

So... they arrested him because the ink smeared and seemed counterfeit, not because they were 2s...

 

I went to the post-office once, and tried to pay with presidential dollars, to make a long story short, they had to get the postmaster to cash them, because the cashier wouldn't

 

If you travel overseas, many business's won't accept our uncommon currency. Travel agency's and transportation companies will warn you about this ahead of time. Don't tip with unusual currency either. Many smaller local banks in third world countries won't accept it, even as a deposit. You, or the depositor, will be asked to exchange it at a larger banking institution, if there is one.

 

Ink smears on other denomination bills, too. 1's, 5's, etc.... All of them. Rarely does a little ink smear cause an idiot to call PD. It's the fact that they were $2's, and BB staff followed in turn by the PD were all idiots so the SS set them straight.

Sometimes when idiots pull out the magic marker for a note I say, "Should be good. I just printed em off today...."

I have a buddy that would send American $2's back home to Africa, where his relatives could get the equivalent of $3-$5 American apiece selling them as souvenirs. As long as the amt. is kept under $10,000 it is legal. Many folks over there had never seen one and gladly paid for the novelty of it.

 

No they arrested him because the ink smeared, seemed counterfeit (to them), AND because they were 2's.

 

I'm not seeing that in the article actually... Just that the ink smeared and the bills were in sequential order raised the red flags, not the denomination... but whatever..

 

Had the cashier not refused to accept them, it's likely no one would have gathered around to gawk and notice the other things, so at the least it does appear to be an indirect cause.

 

She didn't refuse to accept them but was annoyed that he paid a $114 bill with a pile of notes. For all we know she was required to check them.

 

As mentioned earlier, this is an old story. Not sure whether "conservativeread.com" just published it a few days ago, or whether the readers waited for almost nine years and then suddenly started commenting ... but this is it: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-03-08/news/0503080089_1_bolesta-pole-baltimore-county

Obviously there was a story before the story (installation fee, using the fifty-seven bills as a sign of protest, etc.). But c'mon, this is ancient history.

Christian

 

If he had paid with $1's would he have had trouble? I think not.

 

Old or not, I had never seen it before so I enjoyed reading it. I love $2 bills and when the bank orders brand new ones for Christmas they will get me a couple packs. One of my trips to the local grocery store produced a cashier who had to have someone come over to verify they were real as she had never seen them before. I thought it was funny but she learned something new. It's just too bad that kids nowadays have no clue about some things in this country....they should know what ALL currency and coins in circulation look like and the denomination.

 

Take away calculators and watch what happens when asked to do basic math, not only with kids, some adults as well. If it weren't for spell check, some posts, threads and emails would remain a mystery.