Bowie you'n ah heap'bita trouble
Posted on 11/22/2013 5:12:06 PM PST by NYFreeper
A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency’s legitimacy and called police.
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Most of the locals say “Ball-mer”.
And the little town up the road in Harford County isn’t Bel Air; it’s “Bullair”.
Oooo, juicy lawsuit. Dude will be able to pay with $1,000 bills next time.
Bowie you'n ah heap'bita trouble
… Bolesta was taken to the lockup, where he sat handcuffed to a pole and in leg irons while the Secret Service was called.
:)It’s called saving them until your brooke and then you use them.Any store owner knows this.Well small store owner.Mostly gone.
From everything I have read about law enforcement in Maryland, this seems to be normal.
Show me one...one that is legit and has a recent date on it.
I like your style!!
Gee, you’d think someone at a computer store would have done an internet search for pictures of $2 bills. Must’ve been above their pay grade....
That’s hilarious. But could you let us know your license plate number, so I know if I see you I can pick a different lane?
I visited Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello about twenty years ago. The admission charge then was $7.95 per person. If you paid with a $10 or $20 bill, as most people did I am sure, you would get a $2 bill and a nickel back in change (because both had Jefferson’s image on it!). I thought that was pretty clever.
Scene: Small town Connecticut. A German owned company, that employed 200 local folks, wanted to expand their building, this was back in the 80s.
Small town P&Z refused their building permit, stupidly citing that most of the employees lived out of town anyway, and the expansion would change the character of this *she-she* little village.
Well, the company, for two pay periods, paid their employees in $2.00 bills. Hundreds and hundreds of them turned up in the local businesses as tender, and proved beyond a doubt that the company’s employees did spend money in the town and contributed to it’s healthy financial status.
Voila. That swayed the P&Z committee to grant their permits to expand.
They’re tied at the hip with Hamas and the Boycott Israel movement.
Would you expect otherwise? Their corporate headquarters is in Minnestoopid, in Keith Ellison’s district.
The article is not clear on the specific issue; the ink ran on some of the bills, so even if they were $1 bills the store might have called the police, thinking that they were just printed, with the consecutive numbers.
My guess is “smeared ink” is one of the things they are trained for, and consecutive bills. My issue with this is mostly that they actually arrested the guy. They could have gotten his information, and let him go, and then investigated. I mean, he was a customer. He clearly lived in the community, and wasn’t going to go on the lamb.
So if you check the bills and they are counterfeit, you know where to find him. Just lazy cops thought it would be better not to have to worry about finding him again.
I see what you did there...
I don’t think it is, otherwise a business couldn’t post on the door stating that they cannot accept $50’s or $100’s.
There may not be many out there, but the ones that do are still legal and still pretty.
Why is this being posted? What do we care about 8-year-old stories? Why is this blogger just commenting on this now?
BTW, I grew up in Timomium, and my wife was born and raised in Cockeysville, so this was my “home town”.
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BTW, from reading the blog, it looks like the blogger pretty much stole the information from the newspaper; and does not link to the story — of course, a link might have been broken by now.
The story actually hit WND in 2005 as well, and Snopes mentions it when discussing a “taco bell $2” story.
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