Posted on 09/16/2012 11:11:18 AM PDT by rawhide
A mother who says Walmart employees intentionally humiliated her after wrongfully ripping up two of her $100 bills while believing they were fake is taking legal action against the store.
According to her complaint: 'The cashier inspected the $100 bill, turned to another cashier and had a brief discussion, and returned to her register telling Plaintiff that her money was "fake."
'The cashier proceeded to rip the $100 bill in half without performing any counterfeit detection tests. The metallic strip in the $100 bill was clearly visible.'
After marking the bill with the detection pen, revealing a yellowish colour across it, Ms Garcia said she explained to the cashier of that colour meaning it was legitimate, having previously worked in retail herself.
Detained at the front of the store while told the police had been called, Ms Garcia claims that adding to her humiliation, the employees told curious customers in passing that she was busted trying to use fake money.
After two hours at the front, police arrived around 4.15am and proceeded to inspect the bills in question.
Following a series of tests the first responding officer, identified as Officer Edwards, returned to Ms Garcia telling her that what the Walmart employee and manager had done was a 'terrible mistake.’
'He then approached the manager, who appeared upset by what he was told by Officer Edwards,' according to the complaint.
‘After speaking with Officer Edwards, Manager Russell approached Plaintiff and sarcastically stated that the police officers said the money was not counterfeit, though he disagreed.
‘At this time, he attempted to hand Plaintiff the two torn $100 bills he had misappropriated from her. When Plaintiff objected to receiving torn bills, Officer Edwards instructed Manager Russell to replace the bills he had wrongfully taken and destroyed.
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I’m not a huge fan of litigation, but in this case I hope she sues their butts off, and wins.
I’ve worked retail many moons ago, and especially during the Christmas shopping season, we’d get $100’s all the time. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out a real one from counterfeit.
Best of luck to her, and I hope she wins.
Don’t have to make a court case out of every incident.
Was an honest mistake, not malicious.
Pay the lady two hundred dollars and problem solved.
Wallmart can mail torn pieces to govt to get $200 back.
Why is it that a UK paper has a fascination with Walmart stories? I’ve seen a lot of these things from this paper.
In most countries damaged banknotes can be replaced free of charge at any bank. The rule here is that they’ll replace it if you have more than half and the serial number is legible. It’s also OK to tap a torn bill together, something I’ve seen often but will stop once all of our new plastic notes are in circulation.
I remember those- they’re the same size and colour as a loonie.
I’ve had people (usually teen-agers behind the cash register) try to tell me that $2 bills weren’t real.
I always carry one for good luck. :)
Huh? This story gets better by the minute.
“WalmartS seems to have hired all the holders people who previously worked at nursing homes abusing old crackas.”
You just described our Crenshaw Blvd WalMart in L.A.
Yes sir. I’m going to rush to do what the Secret Service tells me to do.
That’s EXACTLY the training I received back when I worked retail. It was store policy as per Loss Prevention (this was at Sears, back in the good old days).
As an aside, isn’t the $100 bill the new $1 bill under Obama?
With purchases of $5.00 or less.
Walmart. Avoid the place routinely. Seem to hire in a “social experiment” mode.
I had the same thing happen. When I said, “You do know that Canadian currency is worth more than American?” she just blankly stared at me.
Sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry...
$2 bills are awesome, have a small stack(get one for every birthday). Used one once, and the girl behind the counter said, ‘We don’t accept monopoly money’.
I wonder if that means to complete the transaction because you'll be in a heap~o~trouble if you confiscate the customer's property and aren't an officer.
” It was one of those Sacagawea dollar coins. “
I use those all the time at fast food places, etc.. Lots of fun!
These holders people are in the IRS office, the social security office. the post office and where ever else they can gum up the works for us crackers!
Don’t you just love BOZO!
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