dasmi
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I'm going to Best Buy to spend some two dollar bills soon 
Man arrested in Best(worst buy) for using $2 bills
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50 Shooter
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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I heard a long time ago that the Gov. uses $2 bills to track money? I use to get them all the time overseas in the Army.
Owen
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I'm sure the cops in Columbia, SC know all about $2's. One of the local strip clubs gives them out as change. It means you are forced to give the strippers 2 bucks instead of one. It's kind of amazing how often you see them here.
Mixlesplick
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I get ten $2 dollar bills at the bank every payday. I hope someone has me arrested so I can sue the snot out them. Some people don't like it when I pay with $2 dollar bills but they can bite me! "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." I'm also not surprised that something like this would happen in Maryland. That is one state I plan on never visiting. 
It wouldn't have been to difficult to use a counterfeit checking pen to check the bill if there was a real concern the bills might not be real. Also, most of the times I get two dollar bills they are in sequential order because so few people use these bills. I am the often the first person to get and spend these bills. The ten $2 dollar bills I got today are in sequential order.
Best Buy should wait until someone pays with $3 dollar bills before going over the edge again. The only time I bought anything there was when I knew someone who worked there and I got a deal on a tv. There are better places to shop.
Every person involved in this harassment needs to get a reality check. Freaking idiots.
I get a little worked up about $2 dollar bills, huh?
It wouldn't have been to difficult to use a counterfeit checking pen to check the bill if there was a real concern the bills might not be real. Also, most of the times I get two dollar bills they are in sequential order because so few people use these bills. I am the often the first person to get and spend these bills. The ten $2 dollar bills I got today are in sequential order.
Best Buy should wait until someone pays with $3 dollar bills before going over the edge again. The only time I bought anything there was when I knew someone who worked there and I got a deal on a tv. There are better places to shop.
Every person involved in this harassment needs to get a reality check. Freaking idiots.
I get a little worked up about $2 dollar bills, huh?
Typical. Guilty until you prove how much of a moron the cop is.
Some close friends of ours won $25K in a wrongful arrest suit against the Grand Prairie PD. I suggest the victim retain the most "lawyerest" lawyer he can find and get himself some cash. I'm tired of people dismissing these asinine acts of ignorance by morons wearing badges as trivial. True, the retard that works at Best Buy needs an education, but there's probably a reason she's working for something approaching minimum wage. I expect a little more out of the people that we do such extensive background checks and hold to such a high standard.
Crownvicman
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FYI, Baltimore is not in Baltimore County. These were not Baltimore Police. Not that I would put it past them, most Baltimore cops I have met have been dimbulbs. Maybe they need a few people who like the horses on the police force. And if you work in retail, shouldn't you be familiar with legal currency?
HighVelocity
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Next time this guy tries to buy something he should pay the whole bill with WHEAT PENNIES. 
BondageJaguar
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Anyone else notice how wheat pennies look like arcade tokens?
BryanP
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Go to your local bank and ask for them.
I do shop at Best Buy. I'm tempted to stop at the bank tomorrow and pick up $100 worth of $2 bills and go pick up a few items, just to see if I can get a rise out of them.
DRZinn
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Ummm, unless I read it wrong, the manager cuffed him?
Aguila Blanca
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That's too logical.
Put yourself in a cashier's position. The cash drawer has 4 slots, for $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills. I can just see this dolt saying to herself, " Gee, if there was such a thing as a $2 bill there should be a space for it between the ones and the fives, right? Yeah, it's gotta be fake."
So I guess we have to sue the people who make the cash drawers, too
BryanP
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By that logic they wouldn't recognize $100 bills either.
Moondoggie
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That would also mean that they shouldn't recognize the Susan B. Anthony dollars, either, since there's no slot for them in the change side.
We could all go shopping and clean up on the settlements. Think of all the toys we could buy!!!
We could all go shopping and clean up on the settlements. Think of all the toys we could buy!!!
I know a guy that buys uncut sheets of $2 bills, takes them to a print shop, ahs them perforated and bound into a book. The, when he buys something, he takes out his book and tears out the correct number of $2 bills. Doing it this way ends up costing him $3.20 / $2, but the looks he gets from waitresses and clerks is priceless!
Redneck Revolver
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exactly what they would say.
Don Gwinn
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Those of you dismissing the 9/11 argument are missing the point. Osama Bin Laden could be receiving shipments of hundreds of Kenwood KX-111 CD players WITH MP3 capability and credit-card remotes RIGHT NOW. It may ALREADY BE TOO LATE because of attitudes like yours!
The enemies of America don't don't deserve crisp, clear highs and thundering bass, nor do they deserve the right to connect their Ipods to their car stereos and jam all day without ever touching a CD, you bleeding heart hippies.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and define "civil liberties" as the right to choose which bill of legal tender you want to use to pay your bills. Thus we'll leave this open.
And I'm also going to print that Anandtech thread and show it to my manager at Best Buy at the meeting Sunday morning.
Sometimes, people are bad, but more often, they're just plain STUPID.
The enemies of America don't don't deserve crisp, clear highs and thundering bass, nor do they deserve the right to connect their Ipods to their car stereos and jam all day without ever touching a CD, you bleeding heart hippies.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and define "civil liberties" as the right to choose which bill of legal tender you want to use to pay your bills. Thus we'll leave this open.
And I'm also going to print that Anandtech thread and show it to my manager at Best Buy at the meeting Sunday morning.
Sometimes, people are bad, but more often, they're just plain STUPID.
DRZinn
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I can understand not knowing about two-dollar bills. I never saw them until age 12, so it's conceivable someone else never saw them until age 30. The idiocy here is not making the effort to find out.
Don Gwinn
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DocZinn, no, according to his story in that link, it was the cop.
Silver Bullet
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Ka-ching !
So all the folks...
on the dummyhead side of this situation stood there and believed that a mastermind criminal with equipment sophisticated enough to produce fake money with sequential serial numbers chose to go with a denomination which is unusual enough to cause comment in the best of situations instead of ten dollar bill which people seldom even glance twice at? Okay.
A side note: where in the story is there anything about where all the dummyheads in this story went to school? I guess facts are not needed when bashing public schools and public school teachers.
migoi
on the dummyhead side of this situation stood there and believed that a mastermind criminal with equipment sophisticated enough to produce fake money with sequential serial numbers chose to go with a denomination which is unusual enough to cause comment in the best of situations instead of ten dollar bill which people seldom even glance twice at? Okay.
A side note: where in the story is there anything about where all the dummyheads in this story went to school? I guess facts are not needed when bashing public schools and public school teachers.
migoi
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