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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."
Best Buy is a private company. They have the RIGHT, yeah you read that correctly, RIGHT to REFUSE any...ANY currency they want. If they don't want to take your $2 bills they don't _have to_.
Well I can't say anything about the validity of the story that is linked ito in the previous posts, this exact same thing happened to me in college back in 1997 at the University of Toledo, Oh.
Back then I had a habit of specifically asking the bank for 2 dollar bills, as I thought that it was fun to spread them around, as so few people have actually ever seen them. So anyway my abbreviated story goes...
Ordered food at Taco Bell, I only had $2 bills and the clerk kept insisting they were fake, I kept insisting that they were real. Finally, they told me to pay with real money, or leave the store or they would call the cops. I told them that I was attempting to pay with real money, and that they could call the cops if they liked. Anyway, the cops came listened to our positions, inspected the bills that I was using, and laughed at the Taco Bell people.
I got my food for free....
I was wondering why the guy in MD has to have them but I'll ask you too...
Why?
Do you crave the cloying adulation people give you when you dazzle them with rarely-seen currency? Do you also pass around $.50 coins too?
I don't know what's worse, some poor Best Buy employee not up to date on his currency or people like you that just have to have $2 and nothing else. $1 and $5 are for the peons, it's $2 bills or nothing, eh? If loved ones give you fullscreen DVD's, do you feign enthusiasm and then later toss the perfectly good movie in the trash because it's widescreen or nothing, right?
In the end it comes down to what do I dislike more, a cashier less than completely aware of all United States currency denominations or individuals such as yourself that inconvenience yourself and the bank you inconvenience just so perfect strangers can have one of your lucky special elite $2 bills. I can spend 5 seconds with the cashier and let him in on the secret, I don't know how long it would take to fix the latter.
At least Americans have a basic grasp of the english language and the basic rules of grammer.
All you had to do was write one sentence. You can't even do that correctly. So tell me Illserve, what country holds the keys to your cage?
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.
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Why are the flocking to EU nations? Because they were invited and because they can get away with almost anything due to your lax laws and inability to enforce your laws. Plus, free healthcare. Well paid for by the tax payers but the immigrants don't pay taxes, they are too busy robbing the natives. There are neighborhoods that the ambulances won't enter without a police escort.
USians are idiots. The average USian has an IQ lower than that of a slug that was dropped on it's head when it was a baby.
I'm surprised this $2 moron didn't get arrested just for carrying *so* *much* *cash* around as a drug dealer.
And as for the clerk at the counter? I'm surprised he could even *count* to 57.
Mark me troll if you want, but you stupid f&cks have carried this 9/11 crap too far.
Get over it already, the world has seen worse things than 9/11 and most of those in the recent past are caused by the United States of Assholes.
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...
Yes, you were the only one, now please shut up.
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?
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