Ignore Posted before sorry "Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills"

[genieroze]

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills
Best Buy customer on being jailed: 'At this point, I'm a mass murderer'
Posted: April 7, 2005
5:12 p.m. Eastern


© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

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

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

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

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




http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43685

[Coastie for Truth]

1. I can see the law suit

(my son is a litigation partner in a Baltimore law firm)

[wakeme2008]

2. Me smells a good law suit and a winning one against Best Buy

I just hate cashiers that can not give change without a reg. to tell them the amount.

[MADem]

3. He needs a lawyer and a lawsuit!

Wow...the stupidity of some folks is just PROFOUND. The clerk, who called the police, and the cops, for not KNOWING the legal tender of their own nation.

The irony is, they were at BEST BUY. Don't they have a single computer hooked up to one of them their internets, where they could use their friend Google to check?

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb! (To the tune of the DRAGNET theme)...

Anyone who has to get anything at BEST BUY should make a point of paying those jerks with two dollar bills, just to hammer home the point!

[Boomer]

4. Say what?

>> Commenting on the incident, 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." <<

Why? Because the bills are going to explode?

I'd say it's a sign of widespread IGNORANCE.

[tanyev]

5. Handcuffed to a pole?

What kind of a two-bit lockup is that? Even Mayberry had two cells they could use.

[genieroze]

6. When I read this story the first thing I thought is why would

anyone counterfeit a 2 dollar bill. I think we should make three dollar bills with * on them.

[The Doctor.]

7. The ignorance is un-

fucking believable.

I think I'm going to start paying for everything in $2 bills on the off chance some moron at a superstore chain will have me arrested.

Set for life after that baby!

[Virginian]

13. I wouldn't count on it.

The case might get thrown out as frivilous.
Like you, I see false arrest against store and police at least, but one of Bush's corporate friendly judges might just say they made an honest mistake and tell the man to use more common currency next time.

[whistle]

8. The return of the $2 bill ...is it real....

<snip>

The return of the $2 bill

An oft-forgotten note may soon be put back into the spotlight.
June 12, 2003: 12:51 PM EDT
By Gordon T. Anderson, CNN/Money Contributing Writer


NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Very few people use it. Merchants and cab drivers are never quite sure what to do with it. And although its history pre-dates American independence, the average citizen may not even know it exists.

But the $2 bill may soon have another 15 minutes of fame.

Moneymakers in Washington are contemplating printing a new series of the $2 bill, which is by far the least-used small note in circulation. The last time the notes were issued was in 1996 (it bears a 1995 series stamp), when about 164 million were made.

Since then, supplies of the notes kept in the Federal Reserve's vaults have dwindled down to about 9.5 million. To replenish that low inventory, the government is considering a re-issue during the coming fiscal year, which begins October 1.

<more>
<link> http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/12/pf/banking/new_two_bill/

[Wickerman]

9. Blames it on 9-11

Commenting on the incident, 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."

All else fails, say 9-11, click your hells twice, wrinkle your nose and all your troubles are whisked away by the Osama farie.

:wtf: did this have to do with 9-11?

[kanrok]

10. Astounding

Sue the bastages. The farging iceholes.

[Mike Nelson]

11. I think I spotted a few Bush voters in that story :(nt)

xxxxx

[SheilaT]

12. Many years ago

I started using $2 bills in my cash drawer at my then-job. In the six months that I was doing it, I only had 2 customers turn down the $2 bill. Most of the time they'd get a kind of bemused expression and smile a little.

I do hope Bolesta gets his son's car stereo installed for free and a very public apology.

[LiberalFighter]

14. Was idiot cop suggesting that because bills were in sequential order

that they were fake?

Or that they were stolen?

[LiberalFighter]

15. By the way... Best Buy employees are mostly idiots

[signmike]

16. It's been a long time since I've seen a half dollar

Got one a couple weeks ago - had to look close to see what it was. What about the Sacajawea dollars? What happened to those? And the funniest thing = Susan B. Anthony dollars turn out to work perfectly in the porno movie machines - they are the same as the tokens!!

One time on Night Court in the '50s a guy was on trial for having a slot machine in the back room of a malt shop. His fine was a couple hundred dollars - which he proceeded to pay with Nickels!! haha - so the judge made him count it all out to the bailiff.

:rofl: