Religions > Atheism > OT: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed
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12 Apr 2005 04:51:40 AM |
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OT: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
March 8, 2005
PUT YOURSELF in Mike Bolesta's place. On the morning of Feb. 20, he
buys a new radio-CD player for his 17-year-old son Christopher's car.
He pays the $114 installation charge with 57 crisp new $2 bills,
which, when last observed, were still considered legitimate currency
in the United States proper. The $2 bills are Bolesta's idea of
payment, and his little comic protest, too.
For this, Bolesta, Baltimore County resident, innocent citizen, owner
of Capital City Student Tours, finds himself under arrest.
Finds himself, in front of a store full of customers at the Best Buy
on York Road in Lutherville, locked into handcuffs and leg irons.
Finds himself transported to the Baltimore County lockup in
Cockeysville, where he's handcuffed to a pole for three hours while
the U.S. Secret Service is called into the case.
Have a nice day, Mike.
"Humiliating," the 57-year old Bolesta was saying now. "I am 6 feet 5
inches tall, and I felt like 8 inches high. To be handcuffed, to have
all those people looking on, to be cuffed to a pole -- and to know you
haven't done anything wrong. And me, with a brother, Joe, who spent 33
years on the city police force. It was humiliating."
What we have here, besides humiliation, is a sense of caution
resulting in screw-ups all around.
"When I bought the stereo player," Bolesta explains, "the technician
said it'd fit perfectly into my son's dashboard. But it didn't. So
they called back and said they had another model that would fit
perfectly, and it was cheaper. We got a $67 refund, which was fine. As
long as it fit, that's all.
"So we go back and pay for it, and they tell us to go around front
with our receipt and pick up the difference in the cost. I ask about
installation charges. They said, 'No installation charge, because of
the mix-up. Our mistake, no charge.' Swell.
"But then, the next day, I get a call at home. They're telling me, 'If
you don't come in and pay the installation fee, we're calling the
police.' Jeez, where did we go from them admitting a mistake to
suddenly calling the police? So I say, 'Fine, I'll be in tomorrow.'
But, overnight, I'm starting to steam a little. It's not the money --
it's the threat. So I thought, I'll count out a few $2 bills."
He has lots and lots of them.
With his Capital City Student Tours, he arranges class trips for
school kids around the country traveling to large East Coast cities,
including Baltimore. He's been doing this for the last 18 years. He
makes all the arrangements: hotels, meals, entertainment. And it's
part of his schtick that, when Bolesta hands out meal money to
students, he does it in $2 bills, which he picks up from his regular
bank, Sun Trust.
"The kids don't see that many $2 bills, so they think this is the
greatest thing in the world," Bolesta says. "They don't want to spend
'em. They want to save 'em. I've been doing this since I started the
company. So I'm thinking, 'I'll stage my little comic protest. I'll
pay the $114 with $2 bills.'"
At Best Buy, they may have perceived the protest -- but did not sense
the comic aspect of 57 $2 bills.
"I'm just here to pay the bill," Bolesta says he told a cashier. "She
looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I
don't want to.' I said, 'If you don't, I'm leaving. I've tried to pay
my bill twice. You don't want these bills, you can sue me.' So she
took the money. Like she's doing me a favor."
He remembers the cashier marking each bill with a pen. Then other
store personnel began to gather, a few of them asking, "Are these
real?"
"Of course they are," Bolesta said. "They're legal tender."
A Best Buy manager refused comment last week. But, according to a
Baltimore County police arrest report, suspicions were roused when an
employee noticed some smearing of ink. So the cops were called in. One
officer noticed the bills ran in sequential order.
"I told them, 'I'm a tour operator. I've got thousands of these bills.
I get them from my bank. You got a problem, call the bank,'" Bolesta
says. "I'm sitting there in a chair. The store's full of people
watching this. All of a sudden, he's standing me up and handcuffing me
behind my back, telling me, 'We have to do this until we get it
straightened out.'
"Meanwhile, everybody's looking at me. I've lived here 18 years. I'm
hoping my kids don't walk in and see this. And I'm saying, 'I can't
believe you're doing this. I'm paying with legal American money.'"
Bolesta was then taken to the county police lockup in Cockeysville,
where he sat handcuffed to a pole and in leg irons while the Secret
Service was called in.
"At this point," he says, "I'm a mass murderer."
Finally, Secret Service agent Leigh Turner arrived, examined the bills
and said they were legitimate, adding, according to the police report,
"Sometimes ink on money can smear."
This will be important news to all concerned.
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign
that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
The other day, one of Bolesta's sons needed a few bucks. Bolesta
pulled out his wallet and "whipped out a couple of $2 bills. But my
son turned away. He said he doesn't want 'em any more."
He's seen where such money can lead.
Copyright © 2005, The Baltimore Sun
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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12 Apr 2005 07:03:44 AM |
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"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com...
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
It's all about total suppression of dissent and ridicule and making everyone
too frightened to do anything except exactly what they are told to do and
act as little zombies for the Right-fuehrer state. This is just the tip of
an iceberg that will continue to get worse from now on!
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| User: "" |
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13 Apr 2005 12:10:12 AM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:03:44 +1000, "Now Here's Clayton With The
Weather" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com> wrote:
"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com...
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
It's all about total suppression of dissent and ridicule and making everyone
too frightened to do anything except exactly what they are told to do and
act as little zombies for the Right-fuehrer state. This is just the tip of
an iceberg that will continue to get worse from now on!
Correct. The purging has begun. And that iceberg is a biggie.
Achtung!
Der beatings vill schtopp vhen der morale improfs!!
It's right up there in big headlines and bright neon lights - a
perfect place to hide things from the masses - right in the face.
(Ohhhh Nooooo - it cannnnntttt be thattt! - they are good people, they
said so themselves!)
drift
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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12 Apr 2005 03:04:34 PM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:03:44 +1000, "Now Here's Clayton With The Weather"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com> wrote:
"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com...
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
It's all about total suppression of dissent and ridicule and making everyone
too frightened to do anything except exactly what they are told to do and
act as little zombies for the Right-fuehrer state. This is just the tip of
an iceberg that will continue to get worse from now on!
Looks like Dubya, is going to get his wish; He is going to have the whole
country on it's knees.
It just wont be in prayer.
--
Puck Greenman
The spelling Like any opinion stated here
is purely my own
#162 BAAWA Knight.
Plonked by Rob Duncan
Na bister 500,000
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| User: "" |
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13 Apr 2005 12:26:59 AM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:04:34 GMT, Dubh Ghall <puck@pooks.hill.fey>
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:03:44 +1000, "Now Here's Clayton With The Weather"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com> wrote:
"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com...
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
It's all about total suppression of dissent and ridicule and making everyone
too frightened to do anything except exactly what they are told to do and
act as little zombies for the Right-fuehrer state. This is just the tip of
an iceberg that will continue to get worse from now on!
Looks like Dubya, is going to get his wish; He is going to have the whole
country on it's knees.
It just wont be in prayer.
--
Puck Greenman
The spelling Like any opinion stated here
is purely my own
#162 BAAWA Knight.
Plonked by Rob Duncan
Na bister 500,000
See what the Christers did? They voted for their god and got this
*****.
In a satire that may turn out to be practical, I propose that there
should be a test at the voting booth: after the levers are pulled, the
voter should be shown a picture of a loaf of bread, and have to
associate it with God, a chainsaw, a piano, a south bend lathe, the
moon, a bottle of drano, a baseball, a cockroach, a trailer, a
wristwatch or a bread knife. If they choose the bread knife the vote
registers. The other choices would ring the bell and open the curtain
anyway, but the vote would go nowhere and Bill Engval could be at the
exit poll, saying "Here's your sign." That would *not discriminate
according to any Equal Opportunity classes, because among the
categories of race, religion, sex, origin, age, etc mentioned,
stupidity isn't one of them.
A little skewed, but the best I can think of in my current state of
mind.
drift
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| User: "johac" |
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12 Apr 2005 05:33:54 AM |
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In article <rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ct
rack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
March 8, 2005
PUT YOURSELF in Mike Bolesta's place. On the morning of Feb. 20, he
buys a new radio-CD player for his 17-year-old son Christopher's car.
He pays the $114 installation charge with 57 crisp new $2 bills,
which, when last observed, were still considered legitimate currency
in the United States proper. The $2 bills are Bolesta's idea of
payment, and his little comic protest, too.
For this, Bolesta, Baltimore County resident, innocent citizen, owner
of Capital City Student Tours, finds himself under arrest.
Finds himself, in front of a store full of customers at the Best Buy
on York Road in Lutherville, locked into handcuffs and leg irons.
Finds himself transported to the Baltimore County lockup in
Cockeysville, where he's handcuffed to a pole for three hours while
the U.S. Secret Service is called into the case.
Have a nice day, Mike.
"Humiliating," the 57-year old Bolesta was saying now. "I am 6 feet 5
inches tall, and I felt like 8 inches high. To be handcuffed, to have
all those people looking on, to be cuffed to a pole -- and to know you
haven't done anything wrong. And me, with a brother, Joe, who spent 33
years on the city police force. It was humiliating."
What we have here, besides humiliation, is a sense of caution
resulting in screw-ups all around.
"When I bought the stereo player," Bolesta explains, "the technician
said it'd fit perfectly into my son's dashboard. But it didn't. So
they called back and said they had another model that would fit
perfectly, and it was cheaper. We got a $67 refund, which was fine. As
long as it fit, that's all.
"So we go back and pay for it, and they tell us to go around front
with our receipt and pick up the difference in the cost. I ask about
installation charges. They said, 'No installation charge, because of
the mix-up. Our mistake, no charge.' Swell.
"But then, the next day, I get a call at home. They're telling me, 'If
you don't come in and pay the installation fee, we're calling the
police.' Jeez, where did we go from them admitting a mistake to
suddenly calling the police? So I say, 'Fine, I'll be in tomorrow.'
But, overnight, I'm starting to steam a little. It's not the money --
it's the threat. So I thought, I'll count out a few $2 bills."
He has lots and lots of them.
With his Capital City Student Tours, he arranges class trips for
school kids around the country traveling to large East Coast cities,
including Baltimore. He's been doing this for the last 18 years. He
makes all the arrangements: hotels, meals, entertainment. And it's
part of his schtick that, when Bolesta hands out meal money to
students, he does it in $2 bills, which he picks up from his regular
bank, Sun Trust.
"The kids don't see that many $2 bills, so they think this is the
greatest thing in the world," Bolesta says. "They don't want to spend
'em. They want to save 'em. I've been doing this since I started the
company. So I'm thinking, 'I'll stage my little comic protest. I'll
pay the $114 with $2 bills.'"
At Best Buy, they may have perceived the protest -- but did not sense
the comic aspect of 57 $2 bills.
"I'm just here to pay the bill," Bolesta says he told a cashier. "She
looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I
don't want to.' I said, 'If you don't, I'm leaving. I've tried to pay
my bill twice. You don't want these bills, you can sue me.' So she
took the money. Like she's doing me a favor."
He remembers the cashier marking each bill with a pen. Then other
store personnel began to gather, a few of them asking, "Are these
real?"
"Of course they are," Bolesta said. "They're legal tender."
A Best Buy manager refused comment last week. But, according to a
Baltimore County police arrest report, suspicions were roused when an
employee noticed some smearing of ink. So the cops were called in. One
officer noticed the bills ran in sequential order.
"I told them, 'I'm a tour operator. I've got thousands of these bills.
I get them from my bank. You got a problem, call the bank,'" Bolesta
says. "I'm sitting there in a chair. The store's full of people
watching this. All of a sudden, he's standing me up and handcuffing me
behind my back, telling me, 'We have to do this until we get it
straightened out.'
"Meanwhile, everybody's looking at me. I've lived here 18 years. I'm
hoping my kids don't walk in and see this. And I'm saying, 'I can't
believe you're doing this. I'm paying with legal American money.'"
Bolesta was then taken to the county police lockup in Cockeysville,
where he sat handcuffed to a pole and in leg irons while the Secret
Service was called in.
"At this point," he says, "I'm a mass murderer."
Finally, Secret Service agent Leigh Turner arrived, examined the bills
and said they were legitimate, adding, according to the police report,
"Sometimes ink on money can smear."
This will be important news to all concerned.
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign
that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
The other day, one of Bolesta's sons needed a few bucks. Bolesta
pulled out his wallet and "whipped out a couple of $2 bills. But my
son turned away. He said he doesn't want 'em any more."
He's seen where such money can lead.
Copyright © 2005, The Baltimore Sun
I better watch out. I still have a few $2 bills in my dresser drawer.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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13 Apr 2005 02:54:16 PM |
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"johac" <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote in message
news:jhachm-43A8B7.22335411042005@news.giganews.com...
In article <rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ct
rack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
March 8, 2005
Snip
I better watch out. I still have a few $2 bills in my dresser drawer.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities"
-Voltaire
Reminds me of an incident where an acquaintance mine cashed a check at a
local bank branch and received some $20 bills. He tried to buy some gasoline
and the clerk used a pen to mark the bills to see the ink color. The clerk
said the bills were bad based on the color change of the ink form the
marking pen. he returned to the bank and they took the bills. 6 months later
they said the bills were good and gave him his money. On a busy day when a
number of people were waiting to enter the branch, I went there as a protest
and told them the bank was giving out counterfeit bills.
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13 Apr 2005 09:39:22 PM |
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:54:16 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
wrote:
"johac" <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote in message
news:jhachm-43A8B7.22335411042005@news.giganews.com...
In article <rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ct
rack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
March 8, 2005
Snip
I better watch out. I still have a few $2 bills in my dresser drawer.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities"
-Voltaire
Reminds me of an incident where an acquaintance mine cashed a check at a
local bank branch and received some $20 bills. He tried to buy some gasoline
and the clerk used a pen to mark the bills to see the ink color. The clerk
said the bills were bad based on the color change of the ink form the
marking pen. he returned to the bank and they took the bills. 6 months later
they said the bills were good and gave him his money. On a busy day when a
number of people were waiting to enter the branch, I went there as a protest
and told them the bank was giving out counterfeit bills.
A bartended demonstrated one of those pens - on regular paper (a
napkin in this case), it's like a black magic marker. On a legit bill,
it's sort of like yellow-green highlighter. I don't know if it
eventually turns black: I've seen lots of low denomination bills with
black marks - too many to think they are bogus.
drift
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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13 Apr 2005 10:03:22 PM |
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wrote in news:p64r51pogcr9ko1nrrl448nviovvua9keu@4ax.com:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:54:16 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
wrote:
"johac" <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote in message
news:jhachm-43A8B7.22335411042005@news.giganews.com...
In article <rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-
md.olesker08mar08,1,76004
.column?ct rack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-
md.olesker08mar08,1,76004
.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2
bill Michael Olesker
March 8, 2005
Snip
I better watch out. I still have a few $2 bills in my dresser
drawer. --
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities"
-Voltaire
Reminds me of an incident where an acquaintance mine cashed a check at
a local bank branch and received some $20 bills. He tried to buy some
gasoline and the clerk used a pen to mark the bills to see the ink
color. The clerk said the bills were bad based on the color change of
the ink form the marking pen. he returned to the bank and they took
the bills. 6 months later they said the bills were good and gave him
his money. On a busy day when a number of people were waiting to enter
the branch, I went there as a protest and told them the bank was
giving out counterfeit bills.
A bartended demonstrated one of those pens - on regular paper (a
napkin in this case), it's like a black magic marker. On a legit bill,
it's sort of like yellow-green highlighter. I don't know if it
eventually turns black: I've seen lots of low denomination bills with
black marks - too many to think they are bogus.
drift
It's just regular iodine solution in a felt-tip pen. Most wood-pulp
copier/printer paper is sized with starch so it turns deep blue-black.
The paper for dollar bills doesn't, so it comes out brown or yellowish.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/question212.htm
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"You know you're over the target when you start receiving flak."
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13 Apr 2005 09:43:05 PM |
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wrote in news:p64r51pogcr9ko1nrrl448nviovvua9keu@4ax.com:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:54:16 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
wrote:
"johac" <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote in message
news:jhachm-43A8B7.22335411042005@news.giganews.com...
In article <rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004
.column?ct rack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004
.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2
bill Michael Olesker
March 8, 2005
Snip
I better watch out. I still have a few $2 bills in my dresser
drawer. --
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities"
-Voltaire
Reminds me of an incident where an acquaintance mine cashed a check at
a local bank branch and received some $20 bills. He tried to buy some
gasoline and the clerk used a pen to mark the bills to see the ink
color. The clerk said the bills were bad based on the color change of
the ink form the marking pen. he returned to the bank and they took
the bills. 6 months later they said the bills were good and gave him
his money. On a busy day when a number of people were waiting to enter
the branch, I went there as a protest and told them the bank was
giving out counterfeit bills.
A bartended demonstrated one of those pens - on regular paper (a
napkin in this case), it's like a black magic marker. On a legit bill,
it's sort of like yellow-green highlighter. I don't know if it
eventually turns black: I've seen lots of low denomination bills with
black marks - too many to think they are bogus.
drift
They react with the starch that is in most regular paper, that is lacking
in the rag paper money is printed on. There are many ways for money to get
starch on it, like being run through the laundry with . . . starch.
They're about as reliable as telling your cashiers to check to see if it
"feels like money." Which is to say, not very.
--
Terry Austin
www.hyperbooks.com
Campaign Cartographer now available
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| Title: Re: OT: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
12 Apr 2005 06:04:29 AM |
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In article <rkkm51d4du7l2q6089k3e6lrjn42tr0cqv@4ax.com>, stoney
<stoney@the.net> wrote:
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ct
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
March 8, 2005
PUT YOURSELF in Mike Bolesta's place. On the morning of Feb. 20, he
buys a new radio-CD player for his 17-year-old son Christopher's car.
He pays the $114 installation charge with 57 crisp new $2 bills,
which, when last observed, were still considered legitimate currency
in the United States proper. The $2 bills are Bolesta's idea of
payment, and his little comic protest, too.
For this, Bolesta, Baltimore County resident, innocent citizen, owner
of Capital City Student Tours, finds himself under arrest.
Finds himself, in front of a store full of customers at the Best Buy
on York Road in Lutherville, locked into handcuffs and leg irons.
Finds himself transported to the Baltimore County lockup in
Cockeysville, where he's handcuffed to a pole for three hours while
the U.S. Secret Service is called into the case.
I suggest he finds a lawyer ready to take payment in $2 bills and sue
the ***** out of Best Buy and the cops.
Sean C
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13 Apr 2005 03:38:00 AM |
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:51:40 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
<snip>
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign
that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
Nooooo... it's a sign that they are ignorant, incompetent fuckheads.
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zamboni #2139
BAAWA Assistant to the Vice-Administrator of Malevolence
EAC Tertiary Adjunct to the Dispenser of Obfuscation.
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| User: "towelie" |
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| Title: Re: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
12 Apr 2005 08:35:28 AM |
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TV's stoney wrote:
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Isn't that "queer as a $2 bill?" Political correctness makes sayings like
this one lose their meaning.
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign
that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
What the ***** do $2 bills have to do with 9/11? Did the terrorists fly into
the WTC on magic flying $2 bills? Did they kill the pilots on those flights
with a $2 bill?
Somebody needs to lose their jobs over this.
--
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning.
A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
- Maynard James Keenan
The belief in the Christian god... is an appalling nightmare. I reject
the notion that the whole universe was created by this kind of evil
creature who would create such a thing. - Anthony Flew, March 22, 2005
aa #2133
ap #19
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| User: "stoney" |
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15 Apr 2005 05:02:33 PM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:35:28 -0500, "towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com>
wrote:
TV's stoney wrote:
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Isn't that "queer as a $2 bill?" Political correctness makes sayings like
this one lose their meaning.
PC isn't.
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign
that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
What the ***** do $2 bills have to do with 9/11?
Not a damn thing, but misdirection is now primary.
Did the terrorists fly into
the WTC on magic flying $2 bills? Did they kill the pilots on those flights
with a $2 bill?
Somebody needs to lose their jobs over this.
They'll get a promotion from it.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "Peacenik" |
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16 Apr 2005 03:00:50 AM |
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"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:35:28 -0500, "towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com>
wrote:
TV's stoney wrote:
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Isn't that "queer as a $2 bill?" Political correctness makes sayings
like
this one lose their meaning.
PC isn't.
I thought it was "queer as a $3 bill".
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign
that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
What the ***** do $2 bills have to do with 9/11?
Not a damn thing, but misdirection is now primary.
Yup. Nowadays any behavior that is "unusual" makes you a suspect of
terrorism. Welcome to the American Empire, with Darth Dubya in charge.
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| User: "stoney" |
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16 Apr 2005 07:00:17 PM |
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:00:50 +0800, "Peacenik"
<cnelsonpublic@hotmail.com> wrote:
"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:krsv51hd27apshdejsgs5dv3o85mdfosvi@4ax.com...
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:35:28 -0500, "towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com>
wrote:
TV's stoney wrote:
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Isn't that "queer as a $2 bill?" Political correctness makes sayings
like
this one lose their meaning.
PC isn't.
I thought it was "queer as a $3 bill".
IIRC, both were used.
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign
that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
What the ***** do $2 bills have to do with 9/11?
Not a damn thing, but misdirection is now primary.
Yup. Nowadays any behavior that is "unusual" makes you a suspect of
terrorism. Welcome to the American Empire, with Darth Dubya in charge.
.... of terrorizing the world with Hitlerian tactics.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "DanielSan" |
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| Title: Re: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
12 Apr 2005 10:08:37 AM |
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towelie wrote:
TV's stoney wrote:
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Isn't that "queer as a $2 bill?" Political correctness makes sayings
like this one lose their meaning.
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign
that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
What the ***** do $2 bills have to do with 9/11? Did the terrorists fly
into the WTC on magic flying $2 bills? Did they kill the pilots on
those flights with a $2 bill?
Somebody needs to lose their jobs over this.
I used to live right near that Best Buy. Having shopped at that Best
Buy many times, I can say that this, sadly, isn't surprising for that
Best Buy. If you so-much as sneezed the wrong way, they were taking you
in the back for questioning. That Best Buy is in a "bad neighborhood"
so I do not doubt that they were being overly cautious to the point of
absurdity, especially when they can use 9/11 as an excue to pull even
more people into the back and/or handcuff them.
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| User: "rted" |
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12 Apr 2005 01:34:24 PM |
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This post is not only off-topic, but is completely incomprehensible to a
non-American.
I know it's hard for Americans to grasp this concept, but this is the
Internet and some of us do not live in the USA, and we are not all familiar
with US ways. What is so weird about a $2 bill? Are they uncommon/not
legal?? What?
Why would someone be upset about receiving 57 of them? If someone paid me
$114 in five cent pieces I might get *****, but $2 notes don't sound so
bad.
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| User: "Enkidu the Atheist" |
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| Title: Re: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
12 Apr 2005 02:40:24 PM |
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"rted" <rted@admin.net.au> wrote in news:425bcc12$1_3@127.0.0.1:
This post is not only off-topic, but is completely incomprehensible to
a non-American.
I know it's hard for Americans to grasp this concept, but this is the
Internet and some of us do not live in the USA, and we are not all
familiar with US ways. What is so weird about a $2 bill? Are they
uncommon/not legal?? What?
Why would someone be upset about receiving 57 of them? If someone
paid me $114 in five cent pieces I might get *****, but $2 notes
don't sound so bad.
$2 bills are pretty damned rare, and some people are pretty damned stupid.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplin and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
"Gods always behave like the people who created them"
-- Zora Neale Hurston
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| User: "Woden" |
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| Title: Re: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
12 Apr 2005 02:19:19 PM |
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"rted" <rted@admin.net.au> wrote in news:425bcc12$1_3@127.0.0.1:
This post is not only off-topic, but is completely incomprehensible to
a non-American.
I know it's hard for Americans to grasp this concept, but this is the
Internet and some of us do not live in the USA, and we are not all
familiar with US ways. What is so weird about a $2 bill? Are they
uncommon/not legal?? What?
Why would someone be upset about receiving 57 of them? If someone
paid me $114 in five cent pieces I might get *****, but $2 notes
don't sound so bad.
Although completely legal, $2 bills aren't used very often. So the point
of this story is that some of these people (including the police) are such
simpletons that they don't know that $2 bills are legal.
--
Woden
"religion is a socio-political system for controlling people's thoughts,
lives and actions based on ancient myths and superstitions, perpetrated
through generations of subtle yet pervasive brainwashing."
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| Title: Re: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
13 Apr 2005 12:42:47 AM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:34:24 +1000, "rted" <rted@admin.net.au> wrote:
This post is not only off-topic, but is completely incomprehensible to a
non-American.
I know it's hard for Americans to grasp this concept, but this is the
Internet and some of us do not live in the USA, and we are not all familiar
with US ways. What is so weird about a $2 bill? Are they uncommon/not
legal?? What?
Why would someone be upset about receiving 57 of them? If someone paid me
$114 in five cent pieces I might get *****, but $2 notes don't sound so
bad.
Some of us are intelligent, and in a state of despair right about now.
I apologise for the sham the con artists that run this USA are playing
but there's nothing I can do about it.
$2 bills were always legal but somewhat of a novelty item. Never
circulated as much as the 1,5,10,20,50,100 on up and the drawer of the
cash register doesn't have a receptacle for them. The one dollar coin
would be another example.
It calls for individual thought on the part of a dumbed down employee,
and thereby disrupts the "system" of conformity that a theocracy
relies on.
They don't like smart people that think on their own.
Law enforcement people are absolutely loving it because they can
assert their power over the people, not knowing that they are merely
pawns in the master plan but they have great hard-ons now.
Where are you? How much does it cost, say, for a 3 bedroom house over
there? If you are into selling dwellings, you have an opportunity, but
you must discriminate against theocrats.
Lots of us sane people may jump ship soon: study up and figure out a
way to protect your country from religious zealots.
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| User: "Walter Bushell" |
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| Title: Re: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
23 Apr 2005 02:57:18 PM |
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In article <jtpo51d0s9h9njkgsj01ci8i2h36cu0nn8@4ax.com>,
wrote:
<snip>
$2 bills were always legal but somewhat of a novelty item. Never
circulated as much as the 1,5,10,20,50,100 on up and the drawer of the
cash register doesn't have a receptacle for them. The one dollar coin
would be another example.
<snip>
$2 were used at racetrack, maybe still. Minimum bet. Dollar coins were
also rare and used in pono places for movies and US post offices.
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Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people.
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
15 Apr 2005 05:07:11 PM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:34:24 +1000, "rted" <rted@admin.net.au> wrote:
This post is not only off-topic, but is completely incomprehensible to a
non-American.
I had put OT: in the Subject line, someone removed it.
I know it's hard for Americans to grasp this concept, but this is the
Internet and some of us do not live in the USA, and we are not all familiar
with US ways.
Shove your slam where the sun doesn't shine. No one expects anyone
from another country to be familiar with another countries ways. I
don't understand some of Oz or the UK ways, to name two, but I don't
post derogratory ***** about them (unlike you). I ask questions and
listen to the answers.
What is so weird about a $2 bill? Are they uncommon/not
legal?? What?
Why would someone be upset about receiving 57 of them? If someone paid me
$114 in five cent pieces I might get *****, but $2 notes don't sound so
bad.
I'd answer your questions if you were polite. In the meantime, sod
off.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| Title: Re: OT: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
12 Apr 2005 03:01:51 PM |
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stoney wrote:
Sounds like multiple lawsuit time to me.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2
bill
Michael Olesker
This story is reminiscent of an urban legend of years past.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp
Taco Hell
Legend: A Taco Bell employee refused a $2 bill because he
thought it wasn't real.
The BS (a good name for that paper) web site is worse than
the New York Times. Bad registration systems are one thing
and can be worked around, but bad code that doesn't even
produce a viewable web page, just raw HTML, is worse.
Bob Dog
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Divine retribution is an idol threat.
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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12 Apr 2005 04:52:34 PM |
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On 12 Apr 2005 08:01:51 -0700, wrote:
This story is reminiscent of an urban legend of years past.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp
Taco Hell
Legend: A Taco Bell employee refused a $2 bill because he
thought it wasn't real.
At a thrift store once I was behind a British tourist who bought some
little thing and discovered he had a $2.00 bill in his wallet. He said
something about how guessed it was part of his child's play money and he
wadded it up to throw away before the clerk said it was perfectly
legitimate.
I've never understood at why in the world they felt a $2.00 bill was
even necessary.
--
L. Raymond
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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12 Apr 2005 06:24:49 PM |
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"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in
news:eznbq0h2wknm$.1i8f9scuv0egb$.dlg@40tude.net:
On 12 Apr 2005 08:01:51 -0700, wrote:
This story is reminiscent of an urban legend of years past.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp
Taco Hell
Legend: A Taco Bell employee refused a $2 bill because he
thought it wasn't real.
At a thrift store once I was behind a British tourist who bought
some
little thing and discovered he had a $2.00 bill in his wallet. He
said something about how guessed it was part of his child's play money
and he wadded it up to throw away before the clerk said it was
perfectly legitimate.
I've never understood at why in the world they felt a $2.00 bill was
even necessary.
Same reason they print $10s and $20s. It used to be that two bucks was a
fair amount of money.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"You know you're over the target when you start receiving flak."
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| Title: Re: OT: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
23 Apr 2005 02:53:55 PM |
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In article <1113330290.f7a206f244de25eddde8c5576446bb86@teranews>,
Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in
news:eznbq0h2wknm$.1i8f9scuv0egb$.dlg@40tude.net:
On 12 Apr 2005 08:01:51 -0700, wrote:
This story is reminiscent of an urban legend of years past.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp
Taco Hell
Legend: A Taco Bell employee refused a $2 bill because he
thought it wasn't real.
At a thrift store once I was behind a British tourist who bought
some
little thing and discovered he had a $2.00 bill in his wallet. He
said something about how guessed it was part of his child's play money
and he wadded it up to throw away before the clerk said it was
perfectly legitimate.
I've never understood at why in the world they felt a $2.00 bill was
even necessary.
Same reason they print $10s and $20s. It used to be that two bucks was a
fair amount of money.
The real question is the continued existence of pennies. Yes, if they
are abolished we will take a shellacking on sales taxes, but.
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Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people.
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| Title: Re: OT: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
12 Apr 2005 07:40:21 PM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:24:49 GMT, Fred Stone wrote:
"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in
news:eznbq0h2wknm$.1i8f9scuv0egb$.dlg@40tude.net:
On 12 Apr 2005 08:01:51 -0700, wrote:
This story is reminiscent of an urban legend of years past.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp
Taco Hell
Legend: A Taco Bell employee refused a $2 bill because he
thought it wasn't real.
At a thrift store once I was behind a British tourist who bought
some
little thing and discovered he had a $2.00 bill in his wallet. He
said something about how guessed it was part of his child's play money
and he wadded it up to throw away before the clerk said it was
perfectly legitimate.
I've never understood at why in the world they felt a $2.00 bill was
even necessary.
Same reason they print $10s and $20s. It used to be that two bucks was a
fair amount of money.
Maybe they have a longer history than I know (and I'm not really
interested enough to check), but I thought they were initially released
during the 70's. In fact, a bicentennial 1976 series is the first one
mentioned in the Treasury Dept's FAQ. In '76, $2.00 was not so much
money that it needed its own bill.
--
L. Raymond
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| Title: Re: OT: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
12 Apr 2005 08:12:09 PM |
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"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in
news:189rf4qofznz1.7np01qvwulac$.dlg@40tude.net:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:24:49 GMT, Fred Stone wrote:
"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in
news:eznbq0h2wknm$.1i8f9scuv0egb$.dlg@40tude.net:
On 12 Apr 2005 08:01:51 -0700, wrote:
This story is reminiscent of an urban legend of years past.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp
Taco Hell
Legend: A Taco Bell employee refused a $2 bill because he
thought it wasn't real.
At a thrift store once I was behind a British tourist who bought
some
little thing and discovered he had a $2.00 bill in his wallet. He
said something about how guessed it was part of his child's play
money and he wadded it up to throw away before the clerk said it was
perfectly legitimate.
I've never understood at why in the world they felt a $2.00 bill
was
even necessary.
Same reason they print $10s and $20s. It used to be that two bucks
was a fair amount of money.
Maybe they have a longer history than I know (and I'm not really
interested enough to check), but I thought they were initially
released during the 70's. In fact, a bicentennial 1976 series is the
first one mentioned in the Treasury Dept's FAQ. In '76, $2.00 was not
so much money that it needed its own bill.
http://www.moneyfactory.com/document.cfm/18/96
# The first $2 notes (called United States Notes or "Legal Tenders")
were issued by the Federal Government in 1862 and featured a portrait of
the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1789-1795).
# The first use of Thomas Jefferson's portrait on $2 notes was on Series
1869 United States Notes. The same portrait has been used for all series
of $2 United States Notes as well as for all $2 Federal Reserve Notes.
# Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's estate in Virginia, was first featured
as the vignette on the back of the Series 1928 $2 United States Note.
# In celebration of the United States' bicentennial, a $2 Federal
Reserve Note, Series 1976, was introduced. The new design maintained the
portrait of Jefferson on the face but the back was changed from
Monticello to a vignette of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"You know you're over the target when you start receiving flak."
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| User: "Sweet Ol Bob SOB" |
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12 Apr 2005 11:56:51 PM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:12:09 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
wrote:
http://www.moneyfactory.com/document.cfm/18/96
# The first $2 notes (called United States Notes or "Legal Tenders")
were issued by the Federal Government in 1862 and featured a portrait of
the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1789-1795).
# The first use of Thomas Jefferson's portrait on $2 notes was on Series
1869 United States Notes. The same portrait has been used for all series
of $2 United States Notes as well as for all $2 Federal Reserve Notes.
# Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's estate in Virginia, was first featured
as the vignette on the back of the Series 1928 $2 United States Note.
# In celebration of the United States' bicentennial, a $2 Federal
Reserve Note, Series 1976, was introduced. The new design maintained the
portrait of Jefferson on the face but the back was changed from
Monticello to a vignette of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence.
There is a scrap metal vendor who advertises late at night on Houston
broadcast TV who says he will pay you in $2 bills. He has his kids on
the commercial waving handfulls of $2 in the camera.
--
Million Mom March For Gun Confiscation
http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/mmm.html
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-- George Bernard Shaw
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Customer pays bill with 57 $2 bills and is busted and handcuffed |
13 Apr 2005 07:08:27 AM |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:12:09 GMT, Fred Stone wrote:
# The first $2 notes (called United States Notes or "Legal Tenders")
were issued by the Federal Government in 1862 and featured a portrait of
the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1789-1795).
OK, in 1862 it definitely made sense.
--
L. Raymond
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