[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

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.

[metmom]

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.