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Lunchroom Lunacy: ISD cops investigate $2 bill spent on school lunch
ABC-13 ^ | Ted Oberg and Trent Seibert

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at abc13.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: arth; currency; education; schools
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To: ConservativeStatement

Reminds me of the time I did business with an inbred cashier who didn’t know what dollar coins were.


61 posted on 05/04/2016 12:36:35 AM PDT by Mmmike
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To: Eagles6

Ah, the old counterfeit pen fail test. Well then, I can see why the officer had to treat this as a serious crime, obviously perpetrated by this young man. Was this by any chance, officer Obie?


62 posted on 05/04/2016 1:23:47 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I believe it. Years ago I went through a phase of using $2 bills and dollar coins just to help circulate them. I was amazed at the number of clerks who did not know it was American money and refused to accept them.


63 posted on 05/04/2016 2:15:16 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Pretty much everyone involved in this event needs to be fired and jailed, with the exception of the little girl, of course.

The absence of consequences for ignorance is what led to this ridiculous state of affairs.


64 posted on 05/04/2016 3:46:42 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I have had a $2 bill tucked away in my wallet for 20 years, kind of a good luck thingy.


65 posted on 05/04/2016 4:13:12 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: lee martell

Joan Rivers once said she wouldn’t put Susan B. Anthony in her pocket with George Washington because it would turn him gay.


66 posted on 05/04/2016 5:02:14 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

The bill so old, dating back to 1953, the school’s counterfeit pen didn’t work on it. I guess most of the commenters didn’t bother to read the article. I admit I stopped reading when it started that minority student crapola.


67 posted on 05/04/2016 6:50:40 AM PDT by Jmsknn
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To: Robert DeLong

:)


68 posted on 05/04/2016 8:26:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: elcid1970

Joan was one in a million! Sometimes, I think Donald Trump is her male equivalent today, the way he talks to his audience and works the room.


69 posted on 05/04/2016 9:17:23 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Robert DeLong

Obviously a severe overreaction.


70 posted on 05/04/2016 2:02:53 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: StoneWall Brigade; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; ...

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71 posted on 05/04/2016 4:21:36 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Sacajaweau
My kids all got a series of $2 bills from their grandfather when they were young...c 1965.

Those particular bills could be worth more than the $2 face value. The $2 bill went away in 1963, and didn't re-emerge until 1976. Your kids' bills are United States Notes, and bear Monticello on the back, rather than the Signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here's a reference on their potential value: http://www.uscurrencyauctions.com/$2-us-currency-value-price-guide.htm

72 posted on 05/05/2016 6:20:03 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: Boojum
An Illinois nudist camp requested their visitors use only two dollar bills in the local town to prove how much the camp contributed to the local economy.

The camp is now a valued asset to the community.

Sounds like the story about a base commander having all personnel paid in $2 bills to prove to the local mayor just how much the economy in his town relied upon the base.

73 posted on 05/05/2016 6:22:53 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: Boojum

We know of that place.

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74 posted on 05/05/2016 6:24:30 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Robert DeLong
I guess he always bought in to the phony as a two dollar bill quip.

Never heard that using the $2 bill. It was always "Queer as a three-dollar-bill" that people used back in the day. Back when queer just meant weird, not homo.

75 posted on 05/05/2016 6:26:54 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Yep, I was corrected already. But I have heard some say it about the 2.oo bill as well.


76 posted on 05/05/2016 7:54:17 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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