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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."
Hmm, it seems like you're just a flaming piece of shit troller. Leave Slashdot and never come back you piece of monkey turd.
What the story does say is that the $2 bills were collected over the course of 18 years... making it impossible for them to be sequential. The story also says that the cashier marked them with a pen
... and in the DRM, bind them.
It's simple she was a blonde , and had nice legs or big tits. So the cop would agree
He's trying to get a "funny" mod for alluding to the claim that Gore beat Dubbya in the first election.
(I think what's funny is that, after trying for months to steal the election and failing, Gore's fans still turn around and claim that Bush stole it from THEM. B-) )
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Best Buy should be charged criminally with refusing to accept legal US currency
Bzzt. Wrong. Best buy could decide that they only want to accept Quarters minted in 1994 and it would be legal for them to do so, though it probably would drive them out of business. If Best Buy had told the man that they would not accept his $2 bills, it would be within their right.
I am not defending their actions in this circumstance, since they certainly were wrong, but it is a very common misunderstanding that because money is marked "Legal Tender for All Debts Public and Private" that someone has to accept it as payment. The laws governing currency are very specific on this point, and were partly designed to prevent just the sort of thing this guy was doing. Similarly, many people are often suprised and upset when their attempt to pay for large traffic fines with pennies are met with a refusal after they have so cleverly lugged 50lbs of change down to the courthouse.
Also, did the fellow not realize that if he had wanted to pay the installation fee using only $1 bills instead of $2's that it would have given the cashier TWICE as much work to do? Maybe he should have just tried to pay in pennies like everyone else who thinks that doing this kind of thing actually makes the store/government/etc sorry for taking his money.
Let me guess, the existence of $2 bills was news to you...
Look, you backwards ass nutjob.
Your religion is something you chose.
Gay is how some people are born.
The fact that the religion you chose has decided to despise your own god's choice in making a certain person a certain way shows that you think you know better than your own god how the world should work.
So, the point is that your freedom to choose to believe certain things is in no way curtailed.
The only thing that is happening is that your ability to prevent people from living their lives as your god intended them to has been limited, and rightfully so.
You can choose to hate black people. They can not choose not to be black.
You can choose to hate non-Christians, and while they could choose to be Christian, you have no right to attempt to coerce them into it.
You have apparently chosen to hate gay people, and they can not choose not to be gay.
The best they could do to satisfy your sickening desire to force them into your idea of what a person should be is to not live their lives like people do.
Pull your deranged head out of your ass, realise that you do not have the right to tell people how to live and so preventing you from engaging in you sick fascist desires is *in no way* a curtailment of any of your freedoms.
If you really think it is, then consider that I firmly believe that sick wierdos who want to run other people's lives would be much better people with a bullet hole where their head used to be.
You wouldn't want to curtail my religious freedom to *act* upon that belief, would you?
And nikki is latin for 1/5, right?