Posted on 04/07/2005 2:46:06 PM PDT by TitansAFC
O definitely. Me too. LOL
At first I thought it was cool 'cause they were becoming rare. THEN I thought it would be a hoot to pass one to some pimply faced kid who had never seen one. I tried that at In & Out this past trip to the mainland. Didn't faze them at all.
NOW I'm really freaked if I try this. Of course, it would pay off my law loans really fast..
Jiminey! Imagine if he had tried to pay with silver dollars. I once paid with a silver dollar and had to show the clerk it was not a quarter.
How do you get them?
There are marking pens that can differentiate currency paper. Most often used on $50 and up, but can be used on any bill.
http://www.centercoin.com/coin_supplies/counterfeit_detector.htm <-- Check it out
"If that had happened to me, Best Buy and the city would be paying for my house.....at least.
I don't know about the house but I KNOW I would have a nice new big-screen plasma HDTV!!
The pen ink changes color if the paper is wood based. Genuine bills are printed on cotton rag.
a bank.
They're actually somewhat common where I live because Monticello gives the $2 bill back to you as change, so I get the best responses farther away from town (like Northern Virginia, for example).
I was thinking about the IQ level of the employee. I bet a $2 bill (I have a small collection of these) that the Best Buy clerk didn't know there was such a thing as a $2 bill, just a hunch.
From 1776 to the present day, we do in fact live in a very "different" America. I wonder what the original Colonists would have to say on this particular issue.
Today's law enforcement agencies are not much more than a cross-section of their environments.
Some cops (I would like to think most) are better than others but it's fair to say that there's a small percentage of police officers (all with 9mm hand guns strapped to their waists!) who should not have graduated from HS... much less the police academy.
The sad and telling truth about this episode, however, is that there were supposed to be supervisors, SGTs and LTs (and maybe even a Captain) somehwere along the line that could have brought a measure of sanity and common sense to the situation. Where were they in the process of calling the Secret Service?
ok... riiigggghhhhhhhhttt. What idiot would presume someone would counterfeit $2 bills and on top of that print them with sequential numbers? With government skooling, we will be a third world country in another generation. I fear for our Republic.
I think you should go buy a receiver, or some speakers, something sizeable, with some $2 bills. Have someone around to surreptitiously videotape events, while you're at it.
Just a guess mind you, but as I read it, Best Buy will be off the hook. Unless they made a citizens arrest, the cops are on the hook. A reasonable action to take in this situation would be a phone call to the Secret Service. If an agent can come to a jail, he can come to a store, because it's not like it was 3 A.M. Another reasonable action to take is to confiscate the money and book it into evidence, identify who it came from, write a report, and give it back later. I would guess, yes, this is definitely a false imprisonment lawsuit.
Cower in the face of power is my motto! Yep, any time someone questions me, I change my mind. No sense in causing a stir.
The Eisenhower Dollar coin is an oddity. Probably not many young people have seen one. I collect them and would never spend one. Although it is legal tender, it does not look real.
I suspect Best Buy is going to have to pay him off with something bigger than $2 bills.
Maryland Cultural Ping.
touche!
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