Man Arrested For Using $2 Bill At Best Buy

In all fairness, there is a decent chance I would refuse those too. We improve our bills every few years to stay on top of counterfeiters. Bills from 80+ years ago have effectively zero security. Thank goodness nobody seems to have thought of it, but it would be easier to weather a fake old bill than to fake a state of the art (lol) new style $100. There is a HUGE difference between not being aware of the $2 bill and not being able to authenticate an 80+ year old bill at a quick glance.

And of course we know the Best Buy story is true since it was on the Internet.

Remember, this is as of now just an unverified story without any type of documentation. It well could be true but it is also quite possible that there was no arrest, perhaps just some sort of exaggeration of a minor dispute.

n9jig did you follow the link I posted - it's a real news station that interviewed the arestee...

I regularly spend cull Indian cents (I have rolls of them) and have had many funny incidents over the years. Once I was standing my ground with a checkout gal at a supermarket when the guy behind me offered to replace the cent with his own to keep the line moving. More than once I've tried to explain to a checkout person that this is an " Indian cent" and been told that the store "does not accept coins from India". It's fun because I'm old and like to annoy people.

I spend $2 bills and a friend of mine spent some on July 4. He sent me a link to this article today

You are correct, I grabbed the wrong link.

How about this: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...imore-county

Generally speaking, snopes.com will have mention of something like this if it were fake news. I saw nothing that matched.