Paying with $2 bills? Best Buy says try again

Soooo….why don’t cashiers know which is real currency and which is fake?

Um, you guys have already posted this.

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2005/04/2648/

Deja Vu

in response to adam, its because people who man registers at stores like best buy are really not like the einsteins of our generation. They’re not even really like moderately intelligible individuals. They’re the peons of our generation, and when they see 1s, 5s, 10s, and the occasional 50 dollar bill, a 2 dollar bill shatters their world. i worked at TCBY as a high school student one summer, and I remember how freaked out on of the peons got when someone dropped a 50. Granted, its an ice cream parlor, but still, $50s are common.

As for this case, well, last time i checked using legal currency towards legal purchases was not a cause for an arrest warrent to be issued, so, I’m thinking its a good time to be that guy. Lawyer up and sue the **** out of Best Buy and the state.

This also hardly surprises me as I live in Maryland, and can say first hand that the cops in Baltimore are Grade-A 100% assholes of the worst type. Here, I’ll even delve into my last encounter with these assclowns. Around 3 months ago, I was with some friends at a diner in Baltimore, off the Jones Falls Expressway. So we’re in the car driving back, when I see a police car blocking a lane or two of traffic, on the expressway, with no lights on, and no cop in sight. This would seem strange, except, its Baltimore, and having any expectations for the city is out of the question. So I keep driving along, when a police van, sirens blaring, approaches my car from the back, then swings around to my side, and then an officer starts screaming out the window and forces my car into the shoulder. Why? A couple hundred meters up the road, some asshole slammed his car into the median, and somehow, a cop car with no cop in it and no lights, siren, or indication of danger, was supposed to mean I should stop. So the officer is screaming his head off at me when two more cars whiz by, and one of them almost clips him. So the asshole walks away, starts screaming, then eventually after his power trip comes to an end, waves us on.

I’ve heard dozens of stories like this, even one where a couple was lost in baltimore, and some cop refused to give them directions, ticketed them, and then when they went to ask another cop for directions, the original cop blocked them from asking the other cop anything.

In summation, Baltimore cops are all scum, and would have better served as aborted fetuses. I hate to make sweeping generalizations, but in this case, there really are like maybe 2 people on the police force who are decent human beings.

deja vu, and then some… this story is a thousand years old in ‘internet years’

Andrew, my friend, if you’d had said that Baltimore City cops are scum, then maybe I’d have given you a pass. These were county cops who had nothing to do with locking up the lost couple after the O’s game. In this case, they responded to a complaint from the store. Sure, detaining the man was a bit excessive, but how is a patrolman supposed to know that the money wasn’t counterfeit? What kind of wise-ass carries around 57 2-dollar bills.

As for the city police, they make for good entertainment. I highly recommend The Wire.

Hey take it easy on Derek, he has been working really hard designing something behind the scenes!

I accidentally dupe too :)

In all fairness, the problem wasn’t that they were $2 bills, but that they were sequential.

share what hes designing and we will forgive.

Patience… 2006 only a few days from coming to a close. And damn… Sorry about the dupe. With so many stories being posted it’s hard to remember what went up when…

@Tom, MosquitoControl

I’m the sort of wiseass who carries 57 two-dollar bills. I used to pay with them and Susan Bs when my gf worked at a bank. You can get them too if you ask nicely. And they’ll often be sequential. So what?

so…. it is ok to have $2 bills, but if you have a bunch of them you are breaking the law? this doesn’t make sense.

Well I guess some people carry wads of ones to strip clubs, so a wad of 57 twos isn’t all that odd really. It’s just odd because a two dollar bill isn’t a typically seen denomination. Sequential or not, I’m with Andrew, the guy should get a lawyer.

Are you sure they weren’t just holding him for 3 hours while the secret service made sure they were legit? That is afterall one of the things the secret service does.

detain is one thing, but hand cuffs and leg irons, then a trip to down town is an entirely different story.

I’d be so pissed if someone made me count out 57 bills. Detaining him was rediculous but the fact that he had that man sequential bills IS suspicious. Oh and Andrew .. you worked at TCBY too does that make you a peon?