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RI eateries to require form before accepting $100 bills
Providence Journal ^ | 3/20/13

Posted on 03/22/2013 1:21:00 PM PDT by Kartographer

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1 posted on 03/22/2013 1:21:00 PM PDT by Kartographer
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Doing the job the US Secret Service refuses to do.
2 posted on 03/22/2013 1:22:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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Hm. That is going to be a real problem when the cost of entrees goes to $10,800 because of inflation.


3 posted on 03/22/2013 1:23:43 PM PDT by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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I would never eat there.


4 posted on 03/22/2013 1:25:04 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Yea, I was going to say that the $100 is the new $20.


5 posted on 03/22/2013 1:26:39 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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With a name like Bob Bacon, I guess he was born to run an eating establishment.


6 posted on 03/22/2013 1:26:41 PM PDT by Maceman
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"This note is legal tender for all debts public and private... when accompanied by a notorized form IRS-123456(b)"

-PJ

7 posted on 03/22/2013 1:29:14 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Geez just invest a few dollars in some of those counterfeit detection pens. Problem solved.


8 posted on 03/22/2013 1:29:26 PM PDT by KirbDog
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Why? Because the owner is wising up and taking steps to reduce his losses?


9 posted on 03/22/2013 1:29:34 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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No, because as an American, I still have the freedom to choose another restaurant to patronize rather than this chain restaurant. Do you see how that works? The owner made his choice, and I have made mine.

Rhode Island has some excellent restaurants. This doesn't appear to be one of them.

10 posted on 03/22/2013 1:35:34 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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I grew up in RI. That state has the lowest mentality on the continent. I had friends in high school that got pregnant to get on welfare. Once preggers the state would give them money for an apartment etc.etc.etc.


11 posted on 03/22/2013 1:36:19 PM PDT by barbarianbabs
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Mr. Bacon needs to train his cashiers better. If only there was something to easily detect counterfet bills.


12 posted on 03/22/2013 1:36:45 PM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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Nothing there but barbarians, babs!


13 posted on 03/22/2013 1:37:20 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Daffynition

Banks can count, inspect and certify 50 bennjamins in less than 10 seconds.

It ain’t rocket surgery.


14 posted on 03/22/2013 1:42:59 PM PDT by wrench
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He’s taking stupid steps. Do you imagine a counterfeiter is going to write down his real name so this guy can track him down? And what happens if the customer got the bill somewhere else? Is Bob Bacon gonna grill them, then follow the lead wherever it takes him? What is he, a g-man? I can almost guarantee the cops won’t do anything about it, unless it turns into a streak of crimes and can be seen to lead to a counterfeiting circle.

What’s most stupid is he doesn’t take the obvious route, which is to get better at spotting a fake.


15 posted on 03/22/2013 1:44:52 PM PDT by Tublecane
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A couple of weeks ago, I got a *fake* $1 bill from my bank.It was kinda funny. Guess they don’t check the little ones. :)


16 posted on 03/22/2013 1:49:29 PM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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I object to the racist word "counterfeit." These bills are "undocumented stimulus funds".
17 posted on 03/22/2013 1:54:21 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Those pens only detect starch. Counterfeiters learned to use starch free paper a very long time ago.

The pens essentially only work if an idiot makes a counterfeit bill.

The pens don’t work at all with any serious counterfeiting operation.


18 posted on 03/22/2013 2:07:28 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: wrench

Banks have been known to hand out counterfeit bills, so that’s no guarantee.


19 posted on 03/22/2013 2:07:58 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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Don’t they have a little marker that tells them if it’s fake?


20 posted on 03/22/2013 2:08:38 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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