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Student Tries to Pay for Lunch With $2 Bill, School Calls the Police
via the Bull 101.7 ^ | 9/2/16 | via Lance Houston

Posted on 09/02/2016 8:44:14 AM PDT by raccoonradio

An eighth grader in Houston, TX tried to pay for lunch with a $2 bill.

Danesiah Neal told ABC News, ”I went to the lunch line, and they said my $2 bill was fake. They gave it to the police. Then they sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big trouble.”

The officer told Danesiah she could be charged with a third-degree felony.

After investigating the incident, police discovered that the bill was real. Just very old and rare.


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To: raccoonradio

It’s the 3-dollar bills I worry about.


121 posted on 09/02/2016 10:17:19 AM PDT by moovova
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To: SolidRedState

Our local gun show, held every other month chargers $8 for admission. I’ve been going for years and have always received a $2 bill in change on my way in.


122 posted on 09/02/2016 10:19:45 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: raccoonradio

I was told these bills are very popular at the track for $2 bets, can any Freepers who follow the ponies verify that or is that urban legend?


123 posted on 09/02/2016 10:20:13 AM PDT by Exeter
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Exit148; Mears; MeganC; Jaded; pepsionice; odawg; DuncanWaring; Kenny500c

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cops+low+iq


124 posted on 09/02/2016 10:24:13 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: raccoonradio

Even if we were to stipulate that $2 dollar bills didn’t exist, which of course they do, why then would a counterfeiter make a bill in a denomination that didn’t exist? And why such a low denomination?

The stupidity there is too deep to shovel out of.


125 posted on 09/02/2016 10:27:15 AM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: raccoonradio

What a lucky kid. She got to learn a very valuable lesson early that will serve her well for the rest of her life.


126 posted on 09/02/2016 10:27:22 AM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

127 posted on 09/02/2016 10:28:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: raccoonradio

The dollar coins work great in vending machines too. Much easier to use than bills.


128 posted on 09/02/2016 10:31:10 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: metmom
Sadly the author of this article was just repeating part of the actual story, which happened in April. The district does have quite a bit of trouble with counterfeit money but in this particular incident the bill was dated 1952 and the marking pen they use to verify that bills are real did not react with this older bill. That is why they thought it was counterfeit. It wasn't a situation where the school worker or the police officer were idiots - they expected the bills would react to the pen.

Because this author only gave part of the story, the freepers who weren't aware of this incident have all fallen victim to reacting and calling out others for being uninformed when they are as well.

129 posted on 09/02/2016 10:33:48 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I don't need drugs - I get high off the tears of liberals!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The pay is appropriate, and as it should be.

Military, law enforcement, and firefighting should be staffed by young people giving back to their country. As many people as possible should cycle through those jobs, and we do not need a government class of people as opposed to the rest of society. When they interact with the public, it should be with the awareness that they too will be the public in a few years.


130 posted on 09/02/2016 10:34:08 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Dave911
A perfect example of the state of our education system. The “adults” at this school were totally clueless and overly reactionary.

With web access at the fingertips of probably everyone involved, I wonder why someone didn't take 30 seconds and look it up... IIRC, the original story was that cashier didn't think the bill was real, and then used the magic pen to check authenticity. The age of the bill precluded the magic pen from working, as the type of paper used when this particular bill was produced doesn't work right with the pen.

This story is several months old, and I don't remember the specifics, and am not going to bother reading the article.

131 posted on 09/02/2016 10:34:21 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Sans-Culotte
I have always heard that the trouble with $2 bills is that the public hoards them, thinking they are valuable.

That's not a "trouble" from the government's point of view. Frankage is pure profit.

132 posted on 09/02/2016 10:34:30 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
I have always heard that the trouble with $2 bills is that the public hoards them, thinking they are valuable.

I keep every one I get. The modern version, with the Signing of the Declaration of Independence on the reverse side, is why I keep them. It's my favorite bill to look at.

133 posted on 09/02/2016 10:37:36 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: raccoonradio

Government schools. Can you say lawsuit?


134 posted on 09/02/2016 10:40:02 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: ReformedBeckite
Hopefully the kid didn’t take the $2.00 bill out of some ones antique collection of bills.

Happens often.

Keep an eye on your change around Christmas. That time of year I always get something back in change (silver coinage, wheat pennies, silver certificates) that is fairly interesting. People clean out their dresser drawers, or pick through Mom and Dad's collection, or something.

Got a neat Standing Liberty quarter, and some overseas coins, last year. All from the same place. Made me want to paw through the cash register.

135 posted on 09/02/2016 10:41:19 AM PDT by wbill
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To: raccoonradio
If anything, the school cafeteria broke the law in this case. The two dollar bill, like all our paper currency notes state:
"This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private."

136 posted on 09/02/2016 10:42:22 AM PDT by wtd
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To: raccoonradio

Probably made its way back from Europe. We got tons of 2$ bills and Susan B Anthony coins in Germany (US Military). The only place you got, or could spend, pennies was the Post Office, everywhere else rounded to the nearest nickel.


137 posted on 09/02/2016 10:46:08 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: raccoonradio

If you want to find the dumbest, most incompetent, and uneducated people, go to any school, including any college.


138 posted on 09/02/2016 10:55:22 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: ReformedBeckite
I have a 1928 one also.
139 posted on 09/02/2016 10:57:05 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Hillary Clinton AKA The Potemkin Princess of the Potomac)
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To: raccoonradio

A guy in Bill Clinton’s hometown in Arkansas messes up and prints a bunch of 18 dollar bills.

His screechy wife yells at him and hits him with an ashtray for the mistake.

It’s no problem Honey, he says. I’ll just go down to the bar and break them into change.

So he makes up a phones reason why he needs them broken smaller and asks the bartender.

The toothless bartender replies, sure Sonny, you want them broken into three 6’s? Or two 9’s?


140 posted on 09/02/2016 10:58:42 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Clinton Foundation - Trading "Regime Change" and Uranium for donations since 2009)
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