OT: Unbelievable but true...

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Atrocities said:Unless Best Buy hired complete back water dumbasses with no education at all, or shallow teenage girls who know more about a cell phone than they do about a conventional phone, would it even be remotely a possiblity.

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AT, when was the last time you've gone to a Best Buy? All the ones I've seen employ the dregs of the uneducated lower class and high school kids. If you have an IQ anywhere over 70 (or just intelligence anywhere above the border between retard and superbly dimwitted, for those who don't look kindly on IQ tests), you would look to be hired somewhere OTHER THAN a Best Buy. Their so-called experts are only trained to spout off numbers and statistics for products, without knowing what any of it means. And I don't doubt for a second that every last one of them would tell you a $2 bill is just as fake as a $3 bill. Expecting them to call a bank to confirm the validity of the bills is something that would require intelligence, so it wasn't done.

But you are right on the lawsuit. Most likely the unlawful detention won't fly. The police were right to hold him until the Secret Service could arrive, since local police aren't trained in sophisticated counterfiet detection, and SS are. The bills were suspected counterfiet because of some smears, not from the pen (and the pen only detects counterfiets made on PAPER, sophisticated copies would be made on material similar to real bills, IIRC a cotton/linen blend). The police had to hold him until they could get confirmation from experts. I still think the police were morons because they held the guy handcuffed to a pole and in leg-irons, but I don't really think he can pull off a lawsuit over that.

--edit: GP, check the text of the morons.org article. The guy has a login/pass posted: bselig@dodgeit.com / bselig
I get 8 hits on Google News off the guy's name, Mike Bolesta.