What is Digg?Sponsored by Travelzoo
$52 and Up—Airlines Slash Fares On Peak Holiday Flights. view!
travelzoo.com - This year, waiting until the last minute is NOT the best strategy. See why.
647 Comments
- screamthenrun, on 11/06/2007, -14/+1426Police spokesman:"It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
-- No, its a sign that your officers are idiots. - allenobendorf, on 11/06/2007, -16/+1264"It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
If YOU accept 2 dollar bills, the terrorists win. - Nudar, on 10/11/2007, -17/+761Please tell me that he sues the police for unlawful arrest. To even consider arresting someone for paying legal tender makes you a mass murderer.
- FoolishMortal, on 10/11/2007, -8/+572"She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I don't want to.'
Isn't there a law that if legal tender is rejected as payment, the debt is void? - duke1776, on 10/21/2007, -20/+451Welcome to OUR nightmare.
- jambaphil, on 11/06/2007, -8/+368"Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey told the Sun: "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world.""
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????!!! What the HELL does this have to do with 9/11???
I'm sick and tired of 9/11 being cited like John 3:16 for every asinine act of incompetent government. Perhaps Toohey could have just said, "Um, we screwed up. Sorry." - Beshitehboss, on 10/11/2007, -11/+360I hope in their next payday all the officers and BestBuy employees will receive an envelope with their paycheck amount in $2 bills.
- Al3x, on 10/11/2007, -25/+353Please note Apr 7, 2005. Somebody already said this I'm sure, but seriously...
- signal15, on 11/06/2007, -33/+265>Bolesta says the cashier marked each bill with a pen.
It is illegal to deface money, Best Buy broke the law.
Additionally, is it a FEDERAL law that if a business refuses to take your legal tender money, the debt is considered PAID. For example, if I walk into a store and they tell me no bills larger than $50 after 10pm and all I have is a $50 bill, if they refuse my $50 bill when I present it, it is considered paid for. You'll probably end up getting arrested anyway, but that's still the law. - appurtenance, on 10/11/2007, -62/+283What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -15/+208appurtenance...how does that apply? Was he sentenced to spend time in prison? Innocent until proven guilty has absolutely nothing to do with being arrested.
People are ARRESTED all the time before being proven guilty. In fact, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the time when people are arrested, they have not been proven guilty of anything. - kevincw01, on 11/06/2007, -2/+191I would have said "no problem, I'll be back." and then changed the $2 bills for quarters, unrolled and delivered them in a bag.
- Matrix_Prime, on 11/06/2007, -4/+192you know, I just recently got a $2 bill back in change at a Best Buy, no joke.
- redrock34, on 11/04/2007, -6/+163I bet they even used the counterfeit marker on all the bills and it came out clean.
I love this one: "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
No, it's a sign that people are stupid. Stop trying to hide your stupidity behind 9/11. - p0tent1al, on 10/11/2007, -11/+164In a related story, a man was arrested at a cafeteria because he tried to use a half dollar for the vending machine.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -6/+144@signal15
"It is illegal to deface money, Best Buy broke the law."
Retail stores have special pens they use to identify if currency is fake or not. The usually only use it for bills $20 and higher. I don't think it is considered defacing for them to check. - feb420, on 10/21/2007, -4/+139Lets all go to best buy and buy a copy of idiocracy with $2 bills.
- samyoungguitar, on 10/11/2007, -10/+143 Hopefully he sues them for 5,000,000 $2 bills.
- lakush, on 11/06/2007, -11/+108So I guess this isn't America, where you can't pay for stereo equipment with federal reserve notes.
Yet another reason I will avoid Best Buy. - capiCrimm, on 11/06/2007, -5/+98To everyone saying there is a law.
I looked it up and you can see that it doesn't apply in a private transaction such as this one or stores not accepting bills greater then $20 or whatever. Only when the transaction involves a creditor. BestBuy doesn't have to take $2 bills if they don't want.
http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml#q1 - doodlebumm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+87I smell a law suit. And I hope he wins. People that don't understand $2 bills need to be educated, even if it is an expensive lesson.
$2 bills are a novelty, but totally legitimate. They are usually in new condition because they are a novelty. They are also usually in sequence if you get a bunch of them because they came in packs in sequence. No counterfeiter worth anything will waste time with bills smaller than $20 anyway. It just isn't worth the time and energy (let alone they probably cost more than $2 to print them on fine paper. The best counterfeiters used to bleach the ink on $1 bills to then print a $20 or $50 or $100. Their cost was at least $1. Now if you do that to make a $2 bill, you are just dumb! You'd make more money per hour at McDonalds. - AriaStar, on 10/11/2007, -5/+85I hope he sued the living hell out of Best Buy AND the police.
- ichbinladen, on 10/11/2007, -4/+81I wouldn't spend $2 in Best Buy. Not as long as I have an internet connection. (and a functioning brain)
- AriaStar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+76@ pogfreak:
You idiot, the $2 bill is legal tender. Banks give out all forms of US currency, from $2 bills to dollar coins if you ask.
Did you read the article? He was told there would be no fee for installation, and Best Buy reneged. He wasn't the jackass. - deathianity, on 10/11/2007, -2/+68LMFAO! Alright, so terrorist are going to come to America and this time they are going to use counterfeit money at our Best Buys.... The police are retarded for even using that type of lame excuse to justify their actions on what happened and the people at Best Buy who didn't know that the bills were real were either mentally deficient for never seeing one or some other type of special for thinking they were fake after checking them. Either way we have a whole lot of special people in this story that through moronic devices somehow survived the womb.
- ganjadude4391, on 10/11/2007, -3/+681. the clerk knew it was legal tender, but noticed ink smearing on the currency.
ok so its a new bill, ive had bills smear when i get them straight from the bank
2. the police saw that the bills were in sequential order.
proves point 1. New bills, So they were in order.... if the were fake, chances are they would all have the SAME number, most counterfitters do not think far enough ahead to fix the numbers on them.
I hope he makes a killing off the upcomming lawsuits (if hes smart) and asks for it all in 2$ bills - AzDraon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+59"Are these real?"
Are you kidding me? People are this uninformed that they haven't even heard of a $2 bill? - silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -4/+59just think- once he gets his wrongful arrest lawsuit settled, he can buy hundreds more of those sneaky $2 bills and do it all over again!
best buy is a moronhouse - jambaphil, on 10/11/2007, -3/+53@foolishmortal
"Isn't there a law that if legal tender is rejected as payment, the debt is void?"
This is a really interesting point of law. Here's the rule:
1. If there is an existing debt when payment is presented (e.g. like at a restaurant when you get a bill after eating), then any form of legal tender MUST by law be accepted. You can pay in a combination of pennies and $10,000 bills if you want.
2. If there is NO existing debt when payment is presented (e.g. you bring a candy bar to the counter at a convenience store), then the merchant is NOT obligated to accept any form of legal tender, and is under no obligation to even allow your transaction. So when a clerk at a liquor store doesnt let you use a $100 bill to buy a snickers, he's well within his rights.
In the Best Buy case, it sounds like the guy already OWED money for a car installation that had been performed. Therefore, there is an existing debt, and Best Buy is obligated by law to accept silver dollars, wooden nickels, 2 dollar bills -- whatever the hell form of tender payment Joe Bob feels like digging out of his pocket.
And they aren't allowed to pretend that 9/11 has anything to do with their ignorance : )
- webtroy, on 10/11/2007, -8/+57Best Buy staff are lamers.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -12/+60Did anyone think to look at the date on this story? April 7, 2005!
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -12/+59Paying in cash is a prank?
You're an idiot. - domain755, on 10/11/2007, -2/+46Why do people have to be so stupid that you have never once in your life seen a two dollar bill
- scatfly, on 10/11/2007, -16/+59hasnt this happened before? or is this just a dupe of it?
- Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -4/+47They're two-dollar-bills. Counterfeiting such small and comparatively memorable currency would be pretty retarded. Why not make fives at least? etc.
- kristov, on 10/11/2007, -3/+40Stupid?
Best buy clerks - obviously
Managers - sadly
Police - wtf? are our standards that low for police officers? - zombiedepot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32Just think if he would have paid in liberty dollars.
- Hensworth, on 10/11/2007, -4/+31Did they think the bills were going to explode or something?
- rm999, on 10/11/2007, -33/+59Al3x
Hehe, yeah - I remember reading about this 2 years ago - on Digg. - Noah0504, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26Taken from moneyfactory.gov:
31 USC § 5103. Legal Tender
United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts.
However, there is no Federal statute which mandates that private businesses must accept cash as a form of payment. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. - Nutmegan, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26If this story gets any older, it will eventually be pre 9-11.
- AriaStar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+23@ signal15:
Well, I guess we should take every wheresgeorge.com bill to the police so they can track down the bastards who are defacing our money!
Actually, defacing with intent to commit fraud is illegal. It's legal to write on money.
Though you are correct about a bill being paid - almost. "This note is valid for ALL debts, public and private." It doesn't say only at places that accept that bill. - djpants428, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22Of course not, this didn't happen in Boston
- nomadxx7, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
That ended the day of 9/11/2001. Now we have TERRORISTS using $2 bills to pay service fees at Best Buy. - LtDyson52, on 10/11/2007, -9/+23Way to bring back a 2005 article. This is old news, sir.
- chronusmcgee, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16The service switch and bait at Best Buy is quite common. My son's computer hard-drive crashed so he wanted a new drive installed. He was told that if he bought a larger and more expensive drive that they would install it for free. Two hours later, the no-neck manager come to us, saying, that my son will have to pay full price, of $119.95, for the installation service. When I confronted him about the promise from the clerk, he just shrugged his shoulders and said the salesman wasn't allowed to make such promises.
Best Buy is very aggressive when it comes to calling the cops. If they even think you are being hostile, they call the police at the drop of a hat, and never apologize.
This man should have as an absolute minimum an apology from Best Buy, and the police department. But he shouldn't hold his breath, it ain't gonna happen. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12@doodlebum:
$2 bills as a novelty? $2 bills should be our baseline! It is the only bill that features the signing of the Declaration of Independence (on the back). It doesn't feature a central pyramid with the "all seeing eye" atop it. It also doesn't feature tiny overseer owls, etc.
The $2 bill should be the baseline of all currency used in the next American revolution. - Ignignokt01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11@signal15
it actually ISNT a federal law.
"This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy."
Taken straight from the Treasury FAQ - binky79, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12"It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
He's lucky he didn't try and pay in Sacajawea dollars, he might have ended up in Guantanamo Bay! - jeffiek, on 10/11/2007, -6/+17I hear theres a few acres left on the northern Canadian border, on the north side of the border.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 654 discussions
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is