Man arrested for using $2 bills
May 30th, 2007A Baltimore man was arrested at a Best Buy for using $2 bills, apparently because the geniuses at the store didn’t realize that $2 bills are legal tender.
It reminds me of my experience on a youth choir tour when I was in junior high. We received a $3 allowance per meal, and my youth minister would give us a $2 bill and a Susan B. Anthony dollar to use. He was a bit combative, and everyone suspected that he gave us the money in that form because he was hoping a restaurant wouldn’t accept it. Then he could raise a ruckus and demand they take the money.
The sad thing is that $3 probably covered your whole meal back then.
I was formerly employed at Best Buy’s corporate HQ, and all I can say is that I’m not surprised.
I’m no fan of spurious litigation, but I think here I’d sue the police and Best Buy for harassment and illegal incarceration.
If I were in this guys shoes, I would sue. Like Klay I am not a fan of spurious law suits, but this is just idiotic.
And can someone exlpain this coment to me at the end of the article.
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.”
Sounds like somebody is trying to do damage control, and just digging a deeper hole.
Yeah, those Thomas Jefferson toting terrorists (the president pictured on the $2 bill).
Everyone run for your lives . . . there’s smudgy $2 bills! AAAAAAAAAAA! It’s green anthrax!
This youth director wouldn’t happened to have been Ed Falcomata? He and his wife stopped by our church two weeks ago and said they knew you.
PS. What ever happened to your music career?
Tim had a music career?
Tim had no such thing.
And yes, Mark, it was Ed Falcomata.