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Skriven 2005-04-10 19:46:52 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Alan Hess
Ärende: yes, $2 bills are legal tender!
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As a joke, years ago I handed out Bill Clinton 3 dollar bills to fast food
checkout people. They always caught it and laughed.

Except for one who took it and asked her manager which was the 3 dollar bill
slot.


Alan Hess -> all wrote:

 AH> We do have some dummies among us.  And for the cops to cuff the guy, and
 AH> haul him away...
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 AH> Thursday, April 7, 2005
 AH> YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
 AH> Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills
 AH> Best Buy customer on being jailed: 'At this point, I'm a mass murderer'
 AH> Posted: April 7, 2005
 AH> 5:12 p.m. Eastern

 AH> + 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

 AH> A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and
 AH> taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency's
 AH> legitimacy and called police.

 AH> According to an account in the Baltimore Sun, 57-year-old Mike Bolesta
 AH> was shocked to find himself taken to the Baltimore County lockup in
 AH> Cockeysville, Md., where he was handcuffed to a pole for three hours
 AH> while the U.S. Secret Service was called to weigh in on the case.

 AH> Bolesta told the Sun: "I am 6 feet 5 inches tall, and I felt like 8
 AH> inches high. To be handcuffed, to have all those people looking on, to
 AH> be cuffed to a pole ? and to know you haven't done anything wrong. And
 AH> me, with a brother, Joe, who spent 33 years on the city police force. It
 AH> was humiliating."

 AH> After Best Buy personnel reportedly told Bolesta he would not be charged
 AH> for the installation of a stereo in his son's car, he received a call
 AH> from the store saying it was in fact charging him the fee. As a means of
 AH> protest, Bolesta decided to pay the $114 bill using 57 crisp, new $2
bills.

 AH> As the owner of Capital City Student Tours, the Baltimore resident has a
 AH> hearty supply of the uncommon currency. He often gives the bills to
 AH> students who take his tours for meal money.

 AH> "The kids don't see that many $2 bills, so they think this is the
 AH> greatest thing in the world," Bolesta says. "They don't want to spend
 AH> 'em. They want to save 'em. I've been doing this since I started the
 AH> company. So I'm thinking, 'I'll stage my little comic protest. I'll pay
 AH> the $114 with $2 bills.'"

 AH> Bolesta explained what happened when he presented the bills to the
 AH> cashier at Best Buy Feb. 20.

 AH> "She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if
 AH> I don't want to.' I said, 'If you don't, I'm leaving. I've tried to pay
 AH> my bill twice. You don't want these bills, you can sue me.' So she took
 AH> the money ? like she's doing me a favor."

 AH> Bolesta says the cashier marked each bill with a pen. Other store
 AH> employees began to gather, a few of them asking, "Are these real?"

 AH> "Of course they are," Bolesta said. "They're legal tender."

 AH> According to the Sun report, the police arrest report noted one employee
 AH> noticed some smearing of ink on the bills. That's when the cops were
 AH> called. One officer reportedly noticed the bills ran in sequential order.

 AH> Said Bolesta: "I told them, 'I'm a tour operator. I've got thousands of
 AH> these bills. I get them from my bank. You got a problem, call the bank.'
 AH> I'm sitting there in a chair. The store's full of people watching this.
 AH> All of a sudden, he's standing me up and handcuffing me behind my back,
 AH> telling me, 'We have to do this until we get it straightened out.'

 AH> "Meanwhile, everybody's looking at me. I've lived here 18 years. I'm
 AH> hoping my kids don't walk in and see this. And I'm saying, 'I can't
 AH> believe you're doing this. I'm paying with legal American money.'"

 AH> Bolesta was taken to the lockup, where he sat handcuffed to a pole and
 AH> in leg irons while the Secret Service was called.

 AH> "At this point," he says, "I'm a mass murderer."

 AH> Secret Service agent Leigh Turner eventually arrived and declared the
 AH> bills legitimate, adding, according to the police report, "Sometimes ink
 AH> on money can smear."

 AH> Commenting on the incident, Baltimore County police spokesman Bill
 AH> Toohey told the Sun: "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the
 AH> post-9/11 world."

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