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Man arrested, cuffed after using Legal 2.00 Dollar bills at Best Buy [Incident dates to 2005]
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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 currencys legitimacy and called police.
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To: NYFreeper
About 25 years ago I worked as a night clerk in a all night walk in store. We kept a $2 bill at the bottom of the $1 stack in the till. We had the serial number recorded. If we got robbed and the perp was caught with the money we had the proof. We were smart enough to watch for things like someone coming in with rare coins, silver dollars, etc. Of course we took it as tender.
If the cops were not trained well enough to at least recognize legal tender then Baltimore PD has a very huge training problem. Best Buy's training program is a joke as well it seems. The manager should have known $2 bills are legal. It's his job to know. He just opened up Best Buy to a false arrest law suit.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:37:16 PM PST
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: GeronL
Re:
Just for laughs try to pass off some dollar coins ... just not the 1971 silver dollars. Like these... perhaps?
'casue that'll be what we will be using... if Biden follow Obama--
BTW once owned both an 1836... silver dollar and 1836... Half Dollar.
I lived in San Antonio then and like to carry them down to the Alamo as they gave me a close feeling to the events of those 1836 days.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:38:01 PM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: NYFreeper
Doesn’t everyone remember a waitress in Kentucky accepting one of the fake George Bush $200 illegal immigrant bills.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:39:12 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: NYFreeper
As a kid my grandpa use to give me $2.00 bills all the time.
Told me he made them himself.
Good mmemories.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:39:56 PM PST
by
Joe Boucher
((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
To: NYFreeper
I think I will head to Best Buy with a pocket full of two’s and let them pay for all my Christmas!!!!
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:40:27 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Sacajaweau
Me, too. I have a stash of them somewhere.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:40:38 PM PST
by
NEMDF
To: metmom
not even the cops were bright enough to note the bills authenticity and apologize.....
a sad comment on today’s general level of common sense
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:42:40 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
To: Be Careful
As if our own Republican leaders are not do enough to besmirch the Tea Party, especially the traitor Sen. McConnell. We have got to primary that old fool. Matt Bevin is ready to take him down in the primary lets help him all we can. We need fights like Benin, not wimps like McConnell. Go to the Bevin for Senate website and invest in the future.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:42:40 PM PST
by
TonyM
To: NYFreeper
Commenting on the incident, Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey told the Sun: Its a sign that were all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world.What? What an idiot. He may as well have blamed George Bush.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:42:54 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
To: metmom
But, I bet they would take that Clinton $3 bill that was handed around when he was president.
To: Venturer
I have done the same for years! It works!
At a McDonalds the cashier looked at the bill, then me, and asked “is this real?”
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:44:17 PM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Living Orwell's nightmare)
To: caver
..."I attend a certain convention every year. One of the vendors obtains stacks of $2 bills and uses them as change."... Yep. Back in the 70's -80s we used to attend a huge yearly collectors exposition and made change to small cash sales with two dollar bills, as a marketing gimmick.
Years later, people would remember us, and comment on it, often as much or more than the things that they bought from us for their collections.
Some still carried one around in their wallets or purses, and would pull it out to show us.
To: latina4dubya
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:46:31 PM PST
by
scripter
To: Venturer
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:46:51 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: null and void
"Youve never seen a $2 bill? Why officer, I would have thought your mom would have brought home dozens of them! Heh. Wicked.
I love it.
To: metmom
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:49:04 PM PST
by
JediJones
(The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
To: Cowgirl of Justice
But, I bet they would take that Clinton $3 bill that was handed around when he was president. I still have mine.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:50:03 PM PST
by
bubbacluck
(America 180)
To: LegendHasIt
Cool! The $2 bills definitely leave an impression.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:52:09 PM PST
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: Bender2
I'll see your Bills and raise you one of the 'Educational Series' issues:
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:52:17 PM PST
by
Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
(If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
To: NYFreeper
This happened in 2005. Does anyone know the “rest of the story” as Paul Harvey used to say? Probably any settlement is hidden behind a non-disclosure agreement.
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posted on
11/22/2013 5:52:17 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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