People have apparently forgotten that $2 bills exist...

The story says it all:

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/...hoolers-2-bill-investigates-if-its-fake.html/

As for me, I only see $2 bills at coin shows. I don't think I've seen one in circulation for decades.

 

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So many people are idiots nowadays... <sigh>...

That policeman needs a reprimand on his permanent record. And some remedial education.

 

Apparently, the cops still haven't learned how to read either. It was several years ago that a man was arrested in Baltimore because a McDonalds clerk, her manager, two cops who responded to the complaint and their duty sergeant downtown didn't believe that $2 notes were real. It took the Secret Service who drove from DC to tell them otherwise.

Chris

 

morons.

 

I remember that one.

 

Why? No one claimed that 2 dollar bills didn't exist merely that the 1953 red seal United States note was fake. It's quite likely that unless the person refusing the bill was over 40 (at a minimum) he had never seen one even if he was familiar with the current green seal Federal Reserve note. Once the anti-counterfeit pen didn't register on the bill I really can't blame anyone for thinking it a fake.

I DO think that threatening to send an 8th grader (14 yo, maybe?) to jail for a 2 dollar lunch is a little bit of overkill, though.

 

I recall reading a story some 10 years ago about a test that the BEP conducted with one of the anti-counterfeit pens and a new batch of $100 notes. They were amazed when all of them were supposedly fake.

Chris

 

Check this out if you spend $2 bills.

http://www.wnd.com/2005/04/29732/

(11 years outdated)

 

She was right. The store didn't have to accept them. If he tried to leave without paying after having the installation done on his car then yes, he should have been detained.

Consecutive numbers on stained bills where the ink had run? I might have questioned them as well.

 

I got a $2.00 bill in change yesterday. Not bad shape either. Series 2013.

 

What the devil is it with these incidents happening in Balto?

 

So do I.

 

What sort of an imbecile would be a school cop?

One who had flunked all the tests for real police departments.

One step, if that far, above a rent-a-cop.

 

Evidently people there are dumber'n heyll.

 

I order a hundred of them from my credit union at Christmas and give them as tips and gifts and, yes, SPEND them. I do get some "strange" looks.

 

Do cops not have smart phones and know how to google? I quick internet search would have easily exposed their idiocy.

 

Yea just a touch, like napalming your house would be a little bit of overkill because you found a few ants inside.

I don't necessarily disagree about the initial reaction because the pen didn't work but if only we had some sort of machine where we could type things in and get information. The school itself I think was the most pathetic reaction. The cops should have never been called in in the first place.

 

They give out $2 bills at the gentlemans club up here in Portland. So anyone who has them often gets smart comments and remarks

 

Big spender that I am, or used to be, I gave them to cocktail waitresses on my Vegas and AC trips. The ladies loved it, and kept me well watered, er um, liquored up. Boy, I hope my wife doesn't read this someday.

 

I love it when I go to a fast food restaurant for a quick burger that costs $1.49 or so with tax, I give them a dollar bill and a half dollar coin, and they give me 51 cents change.

99.97% of the time in life, I am an honest guy. But when it comes to this ignorance and one's inability to read the back of the coin that says HALF DOLLAR, I just shake my head, take the change and walk away.