Posted on 05/03/2016 7:46:08 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- When you think of felony forgery your thoughts might turn to Al Capone or Bonnie and Clyde shooting it out with the Texas Rangers.
Not for some local school cops. For one day, public enemy number one when it came to forgery was 13-year-old eighth grader Danesiah Neal at Fort Bend Independent School District's Christa McAuliffe Middle School.
Now 14, Daneisha was hoping to eat that day's lunch of chicken tenders with her classmates using a $2 bill given to her by her grandmother when she was stopped by the long arm of the law.
"I went to the lunch line and they said my $2 bill was fake," Danesiah told Ted Oberg Investigates. "They gave it to the police. Then they sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big trouble."
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Be glad she didnt use 2 Sacawagea or Susan B Anthony coins!
My in-laws give my kids $2 bills all the time...
I don’t know why 2’s...it just seems like a grandparent thing.
Now if it had been BitCoin, they never would have noticed.
Squaw Bucks. Those do not hold up well in circulation.
I’ve some 1976 Suzie Bs that look better. Same with the ill-fated presidents series. Something about that fake gold just isnt good enough.
Those things are little better than car wash tokens.
Yeah I know about two dollar bills. Why are you responding to me with this link? Am I missing something?
Back when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market, I was buying lunch. I asked if they took Silver and they said of course. So I gave them 2 silver dimes. They about threw me out on my ear. It would have been way more than what my bill came to.
So, if they still have them, are the $2 bills still legal tender?
For me it’s the 6 & 9 dollar bills that bite me.
If you know about two dollar bills, then why did you say “Some family member counterfeiting money?” as if you didn’t know they existed and must have been counterfeited?
No, he is on the EBT card.
I bet he would take an ØbamaBuck.
I’ve never liked using $2.Bills, mostly because everyone used to hear the joke that something obviously phony was as phony as a $2. Bill. Whenever I am given them as change, I try to get rid of them along with other more commen denominations like $5’s or $10’s.
I feel the same way about the much touted Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin. Most folks would think I was giving them fake money or at best Canadian money.
those cops and school officials are complete idiots: it’s the THREE dollar bills that they really need to be watching out for.
My question was after all, is someone in the family counterfeiting money ($2.00 bills). Is this story about them believing that a 2.00 bill is not printed, and therefore is counterfeit? I didn’t read the entire story, and it never dawned on me that people were unaware that the two dollar bill has been printed many times, just not as much recently. If that is the case, bad on me for not reading the article. Sometimes I just do a quick scan, only because there is so much to read anymore and some articles get less attention that others.
Through its history, the United States has minted and printed some weird denominations.
It minted the following coin denominations 1/2 cents, 2 cents, 3 cents (nickel), 3 cents (silver), half dimes and 20 cent pieces. And that’s just coins. All of them are still legal tender.
There was also printed paper money called Fractional Currency. Those notes were in denominations of 3 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents.
Have a stack of Sacajaweas, Kennedys, etc. Figure I’d show them to my theoretical grandchildren... “this is what money really looks like!”
Read my other response, that I was writing when you responded. LOL
A bit of Edisto Beach, S.C. trivia: there was a local shrimper (now deceased) who used to give out $2 bills as change as a means of demonstrating his impact on the local (very tiny) island economy.
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