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Rest in Peace
United States
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I went into Walmart yesterday, and stopped by the photo department to pick up a print. The cost was $1.10. I gave the clerk a Sacky and a SBA. She gave me 15 cents in change. I pointed out that I had given her two dollars. She said "Nope, you gave me a dollar and a quarter." I asked her to check her cash register. Oh, Oh, she couldn't open it. So, she called for a supervisor to open the cash register. I told her that I was sorry to make a big deal out of a small amount of change, but knew that her cash register needed to check out correctly at the end of the day. So, I waited. Ten minutes later the supervisor showed up, and opened the cash register. The clerk picked up the SBA, read what it said, and then told me, "Oh you were right." She gave me my change and then said, "I never saw one of those before." I smiled, shook my head, and walked out of the store.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1247 Posts |
That's not as bad as the Walmart cashier that bought a million dollar note back to the manager because she didn't have enough change in the register. Or the bank that called the FBI on someone trying to turn in some Ikes for paper money.  Edited by longnine009
04/06/2006 12:52 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
756 Posts |
Gotta love Walmart and their highly trained employees! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4589 Posts |
those are really incredable stories and I don't dought either of them a bit. The liiitle town that I did live in in Nc I went to the local gas station and paid for gas withe some SBA.'s I was one of those time s when thing got a little tight the attendant distracted me with a conversation while the manager called the cops . the cops showed up put me in handuffs and asked where did I steal such a rare us coin. LOL. I almost earned a night in jail after that. WOW.the rest of the storie you will have to email me for . because I cant put it on this forum. I did get a hugh public appoloigy |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
3831 Posts |
WHAT?! You ALMOST got jailed for using a SBA?!?!?!?!?!?! OMG LOL!!! My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
756 Posts |
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Originally posted by scoutjim99
the cops showed up put me in handuffs and asked where did I steal such a rare us coin. LOL.
....the United States Post Office is where I get mine. Man, it's stories like this that make me not want to travel through small towns ever again. Good ol' boy mentality at it's finest. You know that is a form of false imprisonment. "FALSE IMPRISONMENT - Any intentional detention of the person of another not authorized by law is false imprisonment. It is any illegal imprisonment, without any process whatever, or under color of process wholly illegal, without regard to the question whether any crime has been committed or a debt due. The remedy is an order to be restored to liberty by writ of habeas corpus and to recover damages for the injury by action of trespass. To punish the wrong done to the public by the false imprisonment of an individual, the offender may be indicted." |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
756 Posts |
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Originally posted by gxseries
WHAT?! You ALMOST got jailed for using a SBA?!?!?!?!?!?! OMG LOL!!!
This really isn't something to "LOL" at. Jail time is never a laughing matter, especially in a place were due process means nothing and when you are truly innocent. This is serioulsy a problem with small towns within this country. Completely oblivious to the world around them. I sure hope you got out of that town ASAP. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4589 Posts |
yes it is false imprisonment. I am an ex-cop a fireman and have 15 /2 years in the military. A career cilil servant (oF course I am not a saint)have never really done anything wrong, but the point of this , is this town was so backwards thinking. once again cant go in to detail on the forum But Being a yankee doesn't help in that place to much either. I have been a lot of places, and get along with evryone all races religions and creeds etc. this liitle town that I am refering to is really something else.
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04/06/2006 03:14 am
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Forum Kid
Kuwait
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You could sue them for thousands of SBA's LOL False Improsonment! |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
Somehow I am not amazed at all
I went dozens of times to St Louis
There is this plaza with a Japanese restaurant on the top floor of the largest building
I always bought expensive cigars in the cigarshop there and paid with traveller checks
One time they asked me for a picture ID and I showed my Belgian Pasport with on the outer cover written Kingdom of Belgium
and my pic in it and the visa stamp etc
It took some time to convince them it was not bought at a novelty shop
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Forum Mom
 United States
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It's not just Walmart; it's everywhere. You would think that common sense would dictate that, if a person is going to be working with money all day, that person would be trained in the coins and currency used in the country where they work. This is not happening. We purchased groceries at Acme a couple years ago and I had a pocketful of Kennedy half dollars that were only worth face value. The bill came to some odd amount that ended in 53 cents. I took a Kennedy and Three Cents out of my pocket and handed them to the cashier with the bills. The young man looked at me and asked what the coin was. I told him and he tried to say that it wasn't US money. I had to show him the denomination and legends before he would believe me. It is very sad that even the people who deal with our money for a living can't recognize our money.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
772 Posts |
We were at my girlfriend's grandmother's house... they ordered a few pizzas. A couple days before, she got some spending cash from the bank.
Well they tried paying with the money, the pizza place would not take the money because they said it was counterfeit. She tried paying with two $50 bills.
So she brought them back. The bills were CU 1950 50's. They did not react to the marker as the newer ones do, so they did not take them.
This was just as I was getting into coins a few months ago and knew nothing of currency.
Well I guess she had quite a few of those (Found that out later).
She took the money back to the bank and wanted the new stuff. The bank said "Oops, these were not supposed to get out"
She had atleast 10 of those suckers... Perfect Crisp UNC.
Wish I knew then what I knew now. They seem to carry a nice lil premium.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4867 Posts |
I work a cash register at the store where I work. I know what all the money is that they give me and I never have to give it a second thought. In fact if they pay with halves or sacs, SBA's, or ikes I buy them from the till. It is terrible some cashiers have no clue. I have an ear for canadian currency. It's quite common in the border states. They have a certain jingle to them. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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quote:
Originally posted by ageka
Somehow I am not amazed at all
I went dozens of times to St Louis
There is this plaza with a Japanese restaurant on the top floor of the largest building
I always bought expensive cigars in the cigarshop there and paid with traveller checks
One time they asked me for a picture ID and I showed my Belgian Pasport with on the outer cover written Kingdom of Belgium
and my pic in it and the visa stamp etc
It took some time to convince them it was not bought at a novelty shop
Are you referring to Robata of Japan at Westport Plaza? |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
quote:
Originally posted by biokemist6
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Originally posted by ageka
Somehow I am not amazed at all
I went dozens of times to St Louis
There is this plaza with a Japanese restaurant on the top floor of the largest building
I always bought expensive cigars in the cigarshop there and paid with traveller checks
One time they asked me for a picture ID and I showed my Belgian Pasport with on the outer cover written Kingdom of Belgium
and my pic in it and the visa stamp etc
It took some time to convince them it was not bought at a novelty shop
Are you referring to Robata of Japan at Westport Plaza?
Yes Robata 1996 was the last time I was over I still have a row of porcelain ninja warriors sitting on the desk in my study room You know the ones in which they served cocktails and then were allowed to take home with you Those were the days I was put in the Ritz Carlton at Clayton and for the first time met with valet parking  and life piano playing and those guys gathering in red robes with bison heads I think which I allways assumed only existed in the films of the Flintstones  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
LOL what are the odds that someone from Belgium that I only know from this board has been to a restaurant in St. Louis that I have been to several times and enjoy very much  I hope you enjoyed your stays in the STL, just a midwest city with a small town feel  |
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