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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

Funny how social media can whip up old stories like this and make them seem new. Originally we were actually treated by a detailed story.


141 posted on 09/02/2016 11:02:01 AM PDT by Revel
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To: bert
"Fortunately there was a money changer. I put in a $20 and out poured $18 Sacajawea $1 coins in change."

What happened to the other $2?

142 posted on 09/02/2016 11:04:32 AM PDT by jackibutterfly ("Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.")
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

There have been a number of threads about someone trying to pay with a $2 bill and everyone thinking it was counterfeit.

For this to happen is not unusual. However, if the counterfeit pen showed it up at fake, then that’s reasonable. But against he devil is in the details.

So are we to suspect that every account of something we hear is wrong? We could waste our lives away checking and rechecking and verifying. And of course, the times you verify it’s correct and the time you don’t is when it’s wrong. Murphy.


143 posted on 09/02/2016 11:05:49 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: raccoonradio

Again! Didn’t this happen last spring, somewhere else?

How stupid can people be?

Yeah, yeah, I know - I shouldn’t say that, because so many people take it as a challenge.


144 posted on 09/02/2016 11:06:42 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: bjc
" how ignorant and clueless our educators"

you said it, not me..

145 posted on 09/02/2016 11:08:27 AM PDT by cherry
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To: SolidRedState

“I asked at the bank and they said the new “gentleman’s club” in town has a cash machine that only gives $2 bills.

Go figure.”


The way I figure it, the dancers wanted a raise, and the owner(s) of the club guaranteed them more tip income and saved a bunch in wages...proving that the dancers and/or the owners of a gentlemen’s club are far smarter than this particular cop (which is clearly not a high hurdle to jump over, apparently).


146 posted on 09/02/2016 11:09:39 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Fido969

Old - probably dated 1976, when the feds did a big run of them (none had been produced at that point since 1963). 40 years is “old” according to many.

Rare - compared to other bills, sure. There are about 750 million out there, somewhere. Not really rare. Intelligence is FAR more rare, and this story confirms that.


147 posted on 09/02/2016 11:11:40 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Yo-Yo

“...until 2016 when they were all palletized and flown to an unnamed middle eastern country.”


Nah, only about 1/4 of them. But that’s still a good one. :>)


148 posted on 09/02/2016 11:12:39 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

I remember one year when the military pay roll at a base in New Hampshire was paid in 2 dollar bills. You had to wait in line and sign for your payment, all in 2 dollar bills. It was a test to track how much money was being spent around the area. Never saw any results of the test. Had no problem pay the bill with the 2 dollar bill. Still have a few saved.
Don


149 posted on 09/02/2016 11:15:50 AM PDT by Don_Ret_USAF ("No Government can survive Without The Trust Of The People.")
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To: Michael.SF.

Thanks for the laugh, I hadn’t seen that in a while. I just bookmarked it, and I’m sending it on to my email list.


150 posted on 09/02/2016 11:17:42 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: jiggyboy

All part of the “Us against them” mentality so prevalent over the last four decades or so. Age, demeanor, whatever mean nothing. Without a badge, you are the enemy!!!


151 posted on 09/02/2016 11:25:31 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceaușescu")
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To: Yo-Yo

“Seeing a red seal will confuse many into thinking they are counterfeit bills.”


Yes, but we have this new-fangled thingy called the “Internet,” which has quite a lot of information on it. You’d think that before calling the (equally stupid) police, that SOMEONE in the SCHOOL (allegedly a place of LEARNING) might actually, you know, LOOK IT UP.

F’ing morons. Our only hope is if other societies are even more stupid than we are. The movie, “Idiocracy” was supposed to be a comedy, but I think that it is more in the line of prophecy.


152 posted on 09/02/2016 11:26:39 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: raccoonradio
Here's the back of the $2 bill, with an engraving of Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello. When our family visited Monticello some years back, the admission fee was $18, which many people automatically attempt to pay with a $20—to which Monticello gave a $2 bill in change. I still have mine.


153 posted on 09/02/2016 11:28:34 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There's only one issue in the immigration debate; the well-being of the American people."--Trump)
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To: jackibutterfly

Fare


154 posted on 09/02/2016 11:28:55 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... We Frack for Peace)
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To: raccoonradio
Image result for stupid it hurts
155 posted on 09/02/2016 11:29:18 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

1928 was a long running series if I recall correctly. They only change the year on bills when major changes happens. Just changing the signature on a bill isn’t enough to trigger a new series, and the date won’t change every year like it does on coins. I think the 1953 series was really long-running as well.


156 posted on 09/02/2016 11:30:03 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: eyeamok

Forget criminal charges...the kid and parents have a Title 42, Section 1983 suit - deprivation of civil rights under color of authority. Each person, despite being a public servant (and doesn’t THAT just tick you off!) can be PERSONALLY sued.

Now I don’t think that you’d win that suit in court, but you can promise all kinds of horrible publicity to the school and police, such that they’ll settle for some monetary settlement (I’d insist that it be paid in $2.00 bills). I’d also insist that EVERY employee of the local P.D. and school system be required to obtain education regarding the history of our currency, and those coins and bills that are in current circulation.


157 posted on 09/02/2016 11:32:27 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Cowboy Bob

The was actually a $3 bill in circulation with Santa Claus on the front issued by the Claus bank in the NE US. Paul Harvey reported about it in one of his short stories.


158 posted on 09/02/2016 11:34:41 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I missed your post before - but, yes, it is no longer suitable as a comedy. However, I think that it belongs on one of the religious channels, as prophecy.


159 posted on 09/02/2016 11:36:00 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: wbill

Every time I used a $2 bill people would always asked if I’d been to the track.


160 posted on 09/02/2016 11:51:09 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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