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Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills
An anonymous reader writes "Mike Bolesta of Baltimore thought he would protest Best Buy's not-so-great customer service and pay his bill with 57 $2 bills. For his trouble he got to spend some time in the county lock-up." From the article: "..Bolesta was contacted by the store, and was threated with police action if he did not pay the [installation] fee he was told before did not exist. As a sign of protest, Bolesta decided to pay using only $2 bills, which he has an abundance of because he asks his bank for them specifically. Unfortunately for him, the cashier did not seem to understand that the $2 bill is indeed legal US tender, since the bill itself is not often used. After rudely refusing to take the money, the cashier accepted the bills, only to mark them as though they were conterfeit."
He may have been factually incorrect in places, but do we need the name calling? After watching the dollar v. euro for the past couple of years, I'd say concerns about currency devaluation in America are valid. As long as we have our massive trade deficit, things aren't getting any better. Further, if OPEC decided to make the switch to Euros the way Saddam did then governments world wide would no longer be forced to have dollar reserves to buy their oil. A rush to dump newly unnecessary dollar reserves on the market would result in a catastrophic crash of the dollar's value. I'll leave the likelihood of that happening for you two to debate.
You must be daft, or your country is practicing revisionist history.
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My family, the Snowballs, is here because my Great Great Gandfater when he was 12 was caught hunting on a neighboring nobles land, they gave then 2 options, hang the boy, or the whole family leaves England.
12 members in all made the trip, all the Snowballs from that reigon, many were none too happy, and a few returned, but better than see a 12 yyear old boy hanged
That was 1874