Man arrested, cuffed after using Legal 2.00 Dollar bills at Best Buy [Incident dates to 2005]

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[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.

[Gator113]

Thanks for the idea…good one.

[hinckley buzzard]

So, who was the more stupid--the geeks or the cops?

Tough call.

[certrtwngnut]

We use $2.00 bills in our shipping store all of the time. Most people like them and put them aside. A few don’t want them. We use them because it cuts down on the amount of singles in the cash drawer. It works for us,

[Bender2]

Lawyers are lined up around the block... to make Best Buy, their idiots employees and the Baltimore Police pay, and pay, and pay--

And first thing in the morning, I'm going to my bank and getting some $2 bills... and hope lightning strikes again.

I can use the money... to pay my bar bills!

Enjoy... enjoy!

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[MUDDOG]

I like it too. I would never spend any of mine.

[GeronL]

Just for laughs try to pass off some dollar coins ... just not the 1971 silver dollars.

[muir_redwoods]

He’s really lucky this wasn’t at a Best Buy in New Mexico. He’d get a $2 high colonic.

[metmom]

It happened.

[caver]

I attend a certain convention every year. One of the vendors obtains stacks of $2 bills and uses them as change. When people use them in town, it reminds them that we are there spending money.

I know Best Buy employees are stupid but the Fing cops just take the cake.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I absolutely HATE them. Reminds me of when I lived in the UK and my change purse was heavy as hell with pound coins.

[amnestynone]

They take my 3 dollar bills with President Goldwater on them all of the time.

[boop]

Speaking of tips, one time I was waiting on a table, and I noticed that the customer left me five crisp $1 silver certificates, fanned out neatly.

For a second I almost told him that the bills were worth a LOT more than one dollar apiece, but I didn't.

I still feel guilty.

[Utilizer]

Could have been worse. He could have tried paying with SB Anchovy Dollar coins.

I might have been tempted to employ some pointed comments as well had he done that! I refuse to accept those abominations in any circumstances!

[2ndDivisionVet]

[metmom]

With what silver is going for, you’d be better off selling the silver to a collector.

Or hanging on to it for the apocalypse.

[Michael.SF.]

When they redesigned the 100 bills years ago I got some at the bank on the first day of issue. I tried to spend it at a restaurant and they refused to take it.

I had others that were the old style and used one of those instead.

[NonValueAdded]

The server always remembers me when I return

yeah, especially if s/he gets strip-searched for spending them!

[MUDDOG]

Reminds me of Sherlock Holmes. Here’s a crown, my lad.

[metmom]

Silver certificates can’t be traded in for silver any more.

I just talked to a collector and he said they weren’t worth all that much any more because of that.

[DariusBane]

It’s a signal that we are all a little nervous of Law Enforcement in the post 9/11 world.