Use A $2 Bill At Best Buy; Get Arrested
from the friendly-service dept
There's an old net.legend that's been passed around plenty of times about a Taco Bell employee refusing to take a $2 bill, because he thought it wasn't real. It's not entirely surprising, given the rarity of the $2 bill in common usage. However, it appears Best Buy has taken that Taco Bell story to an entirely different level where they decided to have a customer arrested for using $2 bills. Apparently, no one at the store or in the local police force recognized that $2 bills are perfectly legal currency.
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I had a friend who used them..
Me, I would have dumped 114 SBAs on them. Much worse than $2 bills IMHO. Somebody would've really been bitching about the deposit that day.
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Re: I had a friend who used them..
In a dimly lit environment it's still obvious that they're American currency, but they're definately not $1 bills, so the girls treat you a little nicer.
Saves you from having to tip them $5s or higher.
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Not Exactly
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Never going to Best Buy
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Wait....back that up.....
Someone please explain to me what paying in $2 bills (legal United States tender) has to do with 9/11?
Is this now the "catch-all" excuse for stupidity?
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Little known fact
the fact that a whole town didn't know of the exsistance of them as legal tender goes to show you that "No child left behind act." might have been just a little to late in the making, maybe we should go back and get the ones we forgot.
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