OT: Unbelievable but true...

[Atrocities]

First off guys, it is illegal for a them to threaten calling the police over someone not paying a bill. He can sue on that basis alone. Secondly, the store supervisor or manager, or any one over the age of 21 in that store personal would know. I simply do not believe or will buy into this fabracation.

I worked retail for 10 years and NEVER ONCE, did any one refuse to accept a $2.00 bill. $3.00 bills yes, with Clintons face on them, but never a $2.00 bill especially if the numbers were sequential.

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.

Last, if this did indeed happen, then Best Buy is looking at one hell of a law suit, three fold, first for threatening him, second for the unlawful detainer, and last but not least, defimation / humilation.

Oh ya and any legal fees he has incurred.

If he was arrested and trust me, they DO TEST the bills with a marker pen to see if they are fake, then he can sue the city for unlawful arrest and imprisenment.

I simply refuse to believe that there are people out there who are this stupid. Again they TEST the bills with a marker pen at the check stand, and a simple call to the bank, any bank, with the serial numbers of the bills would confirm where they were issued.

If this story is true, then I this guy would have to be incredibly dumb not to sue both best buy and the city over what happened. And yes, in this case a lawsuit would be warrented.

[kerensky]

Most stores only check $20 bills or larger, but still, most anyone should know that a $2 bill is real. I wonder what would happen if the guy had paid in silver and gold dollars....

[Gandalf Parker]

Slashdot is quoting morons.org.
I tried to track the story back to a reasonable paper but ended up with one I needed to register to see. Since news.google doesnt have multiple stories carrying the story I have doubts of it.

I would not be too surprised to find out its at least partially true. But my wife has worked retail in a large variety of stores and all of them had training about bills

[Will]

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.

[Atrocities]

I guess the Best buy up here, aside from their crappy *** return policy, seems to be operated by somewhat higher IQ'ed individual than the local Good Will employes.

[Starhawk]

Uh as I said I'd really wish you guys would stop acting like anyone who doesn't realize a $2 dollar bill is real right off the bat is an idiot because as I said I hadn't even seen one till I was 17 and working at Wendy's and most of my crew hadn't seen one either.....although granted I am smarter then most of them were, and most of them were "dregs of the undereducated" in that specific store.....but I most certainly am not and I was in the same "Uh is this real?" boat as them.

[Atrocities]

Not seeing one is not calling any one an idiot SH. Its someone who calls the police because they see one, and the police officers for arresting a man for using them that classifies them as idiots.