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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

I was stranded in Seattle and needed to get to the airport. My train was cancelled

I got metro directions to the airport but needed coins to purchase the fare. Fortunately there was a money changer. I put in a $20 and out poured $18 Sacajawea $1 coins in change.

I was headed for Atlanta where the merchants would treat them like it was a $2 bill


61 posted on 09/02/2016 9:03:18 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... We Frack for Peace)
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To: SolidRedState

the new “gentleman’s club” in town has a cash machine that only gives $2 bills.
= = =

So you don’t have ‘ones’ for tips and things.


62 posted on 09/02/2016 9:04:10 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: raccoonradio

would this be a viable section 1983 complaint?!


63 posted on 09/02/2016 9:05:42 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: raccoonradio
police discovered that the bill was real. Just very old and rare.

I dunno about old.

Nothing rare about it. You can go down the bank and get some right now. At worst, you might need to call first, and get them tomorrow.

64 posted on 09/02/2016 9:05:50 AM PDT by wbill
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To: raccoonradio
As for the JFK half dollar, again from Wikipedia: >>Though rarely used today, half dollar coins have a long history of heavy use alongside other denominations of coinage, but have faded out of general circulation for many reasons. It was produced in fairly large quantities until the year 2002, when the U.S. Mint ceased production of the coin for general circulation.

As a result of its decreasing usage, a large amount of pre-2002 half dollars remain in Federal Reserve vaults, prompting the change in production. Presently, collector half dollars can be ordered straight from the U.S. Mint,[2] and pre-2002 circulation half dollars may be ordered through most U.S. banks...Half dollar coins saw heavy use, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. For many years, they were commonly used in casinos.,,The 1964 Kennedy half dollars were removed from circulation by the public for sentimental reasons.[citation needed] Those issued through the end of the 1960s were hoarded as the only precious metal U.S. coins remaining in production, and as the price of silver continued to rise, pre-1964 halves disappeared from circulation as well. By the time that the coin's composition was changed to match that of the clad dimes and quarters in 1971, both businesses and the public had adapted to a country in which the half dollar did not generally circulate. The quarter took over the half's role as the highest-value component of change.

65 posted on 09/02/2016 9:06:00 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: pinkandgreenmom

grown ups, no less...”

Age is no indicator of intellectual level.


66 posted on 09/02/2016 9:06:33 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: raccoonradio

Now, a $3 bill - THAT’s something the schools will recognize.


67 posted on 09/02/2016 9:06:53 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (With what can already be proved, how can you trust Hillary as POTUS?)
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To: SolidRedState

My old hometown had a racetrack. $2 bills were common, because of the $2 window...


68 posted on 09/02/2016 9:06:56 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Mears

Who intervened before the cop took this kid to the station and booked him?


69 posted on 09/02/2016 9:07:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: raccoonradio

Famous story that the residents of Astoria OR were complaining a lot about the presence of the US Navy, so one pay day they paid the sailors in $2 bills. After the town’s economy was flooded with $2 bills the point was made and the belly-aching diminished.


70 posted on 09/02/2016 9:08:02 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: pepsionice

Ask for change for an $18 bill.

They will offer two 9’s or three 6’s.

If they have passed math class.


71 posted on 09/02/2016 9:08:28 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: raccoonradio

Very old? Hey, I remember two dollar bills...


72 posted on 09/02/2016 9:08:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (George Will: "rubes" might not know Senators names but we know about bribes,corruption and liars.)
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To: raccoonradio

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

To take something like that so seriously? Really?

And isn’t there anyone in that school old enough to remember $2 bills?

Really????


73 posted on 09/02/2016 9:08:34 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: raccoonradio; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

74 posted on 09/02/2016 9:09:09 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: pepsionice

I have seen recruitment ads for police officers where the starting pay was shockingly low. We can’t afford to dumpster-dive for low quality applicants when the job is that important.


75 posted on 09/02/2016 9:09:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Yo-Yo

AFAIK, each and every coin and Bill ever produced under the US government is legal tender. This doesn’t come up much because of the generally higher nusimatic value of older money.

There are minor exceptions, for example, they won’t give you silver for a silver certificate 1.00 bill anymore. But it is still worth 1.00.


76 posted on 09/02/2016 9:10:14 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: bert

The cash machine at my work 10 years ago gave out change in $1 coin. The vending machines were all adapted to accept them. This was in Nashville.


77 posted on 09/02/2016 9:10:35 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: tx_eggman

Exactly! And the story is from Houston. The business tag line is “We Pay Yew In Two Dollar Bills!!!!” and they have billboards everywhere.


78 posted on 09/02/2016 9:11:50 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: ichabod1

I’m currently printing 20 one trillion dollar bills and plan to pay off the US debt, then, we’re all taking 2017 off and relaxing, we deserve it, it’s been over two hundred years and our country deserves a break.


79 posted on 09/02/2016 9:13:49 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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To: lee martell

I think it’s called a gentleman’s club because you act like a gentleman or you tossed out on your keister.


80 posted on 09/02/2016 9:14:09 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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