Man arrested for using $2 bills at Best Buy - clip from The Two Dollar Bill Documentary
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2017
- Some people don't know that two dollar bills are real, so when Mike Bolesta used over 50 of them to make a purchase at a Best Buy store, an encounter with the police and Secret Service ensued. In this clip from the movie The Two Dollar Bill Documentary, see the story of this false arrest, after a cashier was unsure of the quirky currency and the manager called the cops.
This took place in baltimore in 2005.
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Many people have asked what happened after this. Nothing! Mike was embarrassed but wanted it to be over so he simply moved on. He has not been to any Best Buy since and claims he will never go into one again. He doesn't particularly like talking about this incident, but he graciously agreed to be interviewed for this documentary. Some of you think this is a fake story - it is absolutely true, and was reported in local papers after it happened. So, everyone who complains that the cashier could've simply Googles $2 bills, why don't you simply Google this story and see for yourself? Thanks for watching and for all of your comments.
He should sue their ass off!
Personally, I'd have contacted an attorney and filed a suit for wrongful arrest.
I wouldn't go to Best Buy if they handed me a stack of $2 bills.
Nuke I do
The Two Dollar Bill Documentary was this a Best Buy in the Boston area? If it's the store I am thinking of, they suck. I had a very negative experience about 6 years ago and will never return.
He should have sued both Best Buy and the police
Now he has a police record even though it was false arrest.
Just being released isn't enough to expunge his record; he must sue.
Sue the dumbasses
Yeah.
I would have sued for sure.
sue and dont settle out of court either
The cashier not knowing is one thing, but THE FUCKING COPS didnt know what a $2 bill was?
Coral Reefer The cashier had no excuse either.. HES THE ONE HANDLING MONEY, HE SHOULD KNOW WHAT A $2 BILL IS lol
You both forget that using a $2 or seeing one in circulation is extremely rare.
The Police officer probably knew that $2 bills exist, and assumed that the store was reporting them for being counterfeit. Police officers are not trained to recognize counterfeit bills, that is the FBI and secret service's job, which is why he was in a holding cell until the secret service could confirm that they were not counterfeit. The police officer did his job the way he was trained.
Coral Reefer
Cops are usually stupid and busy shooting people in the back. They wouldn't know anything.
The cashier's job requires them to handle money and have knowledge of various notes so it's the cashier and manager fault
Filthy Connoisseur you are stupid if you think that cops only shoot people.
Sue for $2M and demand to be paid in $2 bills!
The problem with that is there most likely isn't enough 2 USD bills left to do so. The USA stopped printing $2 bills in 1966 so 58 years for them to get lost and/or destroyed.
You also have most if not all computer systems right now assume you only have $1, $5, $10, $50 and $100 bills as they were made after the USA stopped printing the $2 bill.
And this is why I continue to think most humans are dumber than a box of rocks
How dare you...
...insult rocks like that! ;)
Well to be fair…Americans in particular.
There's no limit to how stupid people are, sometimes I wonder if we've split into two different species who look the same but our brains are completely different.
Box of rocks is smart. For being in a box😳😂😂
Fbestbuy & their DEI hires, haven't been there since they went woke-- they'll never see my money again!!
i woulda sued the fuck out of best buy
The arresting police officer, and all those who backed him up should be the ones in trouble.
damiandashawn smith and the cops..false arrest!
The police are obligated to arrest (AKA detain) him and confirm that the bill(s) are/is counterfeit, once it was confirmed they weren't they released him no? Thus the police did nothing illegal.
He should get his settlement money in $2 bills. Justice.
SilvaDreams Arresting someone who has done no crime IS illegal
Forget the cashier, how the heck did someone become a store MANAGER in the USA without knowing what money America uses ?!?!?!
Exactly. It wasn't a great day for the cashier, either, but I put the blame for this more on the manager. She apparently didn't know and she asked her boss. I would think that was the procedure she was taught. The manager is the one who really should have known. I actually had this come up someplace I was working. The cashier -- a high school kid -- didn't know. So she came into the office and asked me -- I'm an Accountant. I, of course, told her it was real and to accept it. She did the right thing.
Hard up for good help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Life is,I thought all police had to go to fifteen weeks police school before they start work as a policeman! Oh, I know that is to teach them about giving tickets!(sarcasm)
@@TheGrimers That was essentially my point -- If you don't know, find someone who does.
@@TheGrimers I understand. I didn't mean to disagree with your post. I appreciate you posting it.
I had a fast food clerk refuse golden Sacagawea coin dollars and told me they were not real US money. They don't hire rocket scientists.
I had a fast food place in Buffalo N.C. tell me the same.
Try it with the old Eisenhower dollar coins. You'll get great reactions.
Sacagawea coins are collector coins they are uncirculated that means they not to be used for general public. AKA public vendors. Ofc she gonna refuse them
@@KawaiiSoulB42 You are wrong the coins were released to the public, just no one wanted them
@@KawaiiSoulB42 That's not true. They are released for circulation, you can get them by the roll at banks. Some vending machines even take them.
I got my first $2 Bill before I was out of elementary school. These people are clowns.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There are young people who have NEVER used coins/paper money in their lives. It's only going to get worse'
I have around $3000 in just $2 bills from my grandfather over the years. I've only ever spent one of them.
His last line
"If you are an American citizen, and don't know that we have two dollar bills in our currency, you shouldn't be a cashier."
Let me fix that line for you.
"If you are a cop in America, and don't know that we have two dollar bills in our currency, you shouldn't be a cop."
Cowgoesmoo2 Yeah, it's not like he is going to be trained on detecting if it's fake or not. I bet all the manager told them was that he had counterfeit money.
BlakeXC this shouldn't be the case. I worked as a manager for 3 yrs at a gas station and saw more than our fair share of counterfeit cash come through. Every time we had to call the police. And every time they checked to make sure it was bad. Of course it was so they went on with arrests. If the officer just went on the managers word then that was the mistake.
Cowgoesmoo2 why? Cause someone accused him of having counterfeit money? That would mean anyone would have to be arrested just cause someone accused them of a crime...
crooks4hire Idk where u live, but here in Cobb Co GA, that is exactly all someone has to do, just call and say you did whatever, and a warrant will be issued asap! Then its up to you to hire a lawyer, and prove to the courts you didn't do it! While the DA is trying to prove that u did! We aren't free anymore man..Im 43 and my parents generation was the last one with real rights..
Thank God the Secret Service knew they had 2 dollar bills, otherwise he'd still be in the slammer.
Didn't anyone consider the $2.00 bill would be the last bill that anyone would counterfeit
Scott Golden it would actually make a lot of sense for counterfeiters to use $2 bills since most people wouldn't know how to tell if they were fake although a large increase in $2 bill circulation would become very suspicious
2 dollor bills are rare to counterfit them is like trying to steal from a already counted cash box they are gonna notice the extras and restrict the bill to nothing like it already is but a 1 or 5 or 10 bills are the best to counterfit small but most conterfitters do hundreads cause then u break one fake bill for 99 or 100 real ones
Scott Golden they counterfeit the change more than the big ones. because it's lot easier to circulate
Meldins STI Wouldn't using a $2 bill raise more suspicion since a lot of people don't know they exist? Seems like to me making $5 fakes would make more sense.
I worked at a bank cash vault and we would get as many fake 2 dollar bills as any other...
Big-time civil rights violation for false arrest! This could have been a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the store and the city.
I would like to hear from the cops, the intake officer, the DA, and ALL those involved for putting this man in jail for using legal tender to fill a debt. This is why you have to question authority at every step. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
It was never supposed to be all on the citizens police want to police themselves they had better start actually doing it
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. He should've sued everyone involved. Pay his attorney in $2 bills lol.
If the employee marked the bill why wouldn't she see it was real?
If any complaint is lodged, you go to jail. Does the cop weigh the evidence? Not usually, they haul you in and let the D.A. handle it. Cops don't care if you sit in jail all week.
@@patrickday4206People can not police themselves. We all can not just scare up a posse and pick out a tree. You had towns like Tombstone AZ ruled by night riders. Cops are taught to haul em downtown, let the D.A. and detectives sort it out.
The fact the police arrested him and had to check shows they shouldn't be working in that job.
Most police officers should be in jail.
And why do you need to handcuff him immediately?
This makes it even worse tbh I get that there’s idiot cashiers but the police officer should’ve done his work and informed himself what was going on I mean who in the hell will make fake $2 bills? Worse of what if you have those bills from a store you really sending someone to jail for that ? If I was him after being released I would’ve told all the cops that arrested me that they are idiots and don’t deserve to be cops.
@Kilo Mintoni highly trained my ass lol if they were trained they wouldn't not know the currency of our country and shoot random people
@@mirzaahmed6589
Prove it.
Happened to me once at walmart for using an old 100 dollar bill. Cashier confiscated my bill and when I asked for it back they called the manager, who in turn called the police. Manager of Walmart insisted that if the counterfeit pen color did not make a mark the bill is fake. Repeatably told him to read the instructions on the pen but was ignored... Called another officer and after an hour of debate between several officers and a few Walmart upper management, they told me the bill was real and I could use it. Didn't even apologize for wasting an hour of my life. Haven't been back to a Walmart in 5 years, thank god for Amazon crushing their profits.
taijiangah I work in McDonald's and we don't have the pen/marker. So what we do is put the bill to the light and look for the you boi's face (Benjamin) in the right side of the bill and the little line of text in the left side of the bill. I also check for the texture of the lower middle part of the bill(Benji's shirt or tux) to feel for little bumps(I do that especially for the old version of the bill). And check for the obvious the blue ribbon(for the new version of course...) I did catch these people use a fake on me through the drive thru literally two days ago(5/4/18 to be exact for future viewers). When they handed the bill, it didn't feel right. It was also too reflective when I was going to put it in the light. When I did put it to the light those, 'invisible' marks weren't there. I knew as soon as I first touch the bill something was not right; but I still carried with the process to be 100 percent sure that it was fake. I did the bump test and presented the bill to the managers. They were surprised at how fast I did it. One of them even told me that if someone else was in the window cashing out customers they would have thought it was real and cash them out. The bill currently hangs in the office for display lol.
Israel Contreras, What did the customers say about it?
taijiangah I don't go to Wal-Mart myself anymore. Amazon is an amazing thing
taijiangah Lol. WalMart recorded 9 BILLION dollars in PROFIT this year alone and is #1 on the fortune 500. I'd hardly say any corporation is "crushing their (Wal-Mart) profits".
Matt Grey yes you are correct, there definitely not crushing their profits. But they are in fact moving in on a lot of their territory. They probably would have had double that or more if it wasn't for Amazon. Now obviously Walmart is not hurting, and they are not in danger of going out of business anytime soon, but Walmart is watching what Amazon is doing and seeing where the future of retail is going. They definitely will not close their doors tomorrow, but they are watching everything that is going on around them. They've already updated and completely changed their website to make it easier for consumers to shop online through them rather than the competitors. Again they are in no danger I'm going out of business, but the future of retail sales is changing, and they are currently doing what they can to keep up with that. 10 years from now it's going to be a completely different Market than it is now and they are definitely changing to get in on that now
When the SBA dollar coin came out I was 16 and tried to use one to buy something. The clerk threw a fit and refused to accept it. Accused me of making the coin in my bedroom. LOL
It is mind boggling to think that law enforcement officers would be so ignorant that they did not know a $2 bill was legal tender.
The problem is that the two dollar bills aren’t that common compared to a dollar or other bills. I only seen a two dollar bill two or three times in my life.
Try paying with one dollar coins😳. I had one clerk tell me they "don't take Canadian money". Lol
Dang & yet every now & again I keep getting some Canadian dimes at the gas station & even the local Wal-Mart all while living in a state that doesn't boarders Canada 😆
Even better. Pay with 50 cent pieces. Bet they haven't seen those in a while.
@@kasuraga I would just piss the best buy off by paying in pennies. The little shits!!
When the $1 coins were big back in early 2000s, I had several times when a manager was called but thankfully they knew them to be legal tender. Found that many young ones did not know about the $1 coin and also had some exps with the $2note; which should be brought back now that almost everything costs more than $1 now.
Yes, especially the Sacajawea dollars, they are brass and the size of thick quarters, they just don't look like dollars. Cash registers don't have a spot for them.
He should have sued that "Best Buy"
The Officials Channel And then have them pay him in two dollar bills.
Do we know that he didn't? Should have gone after the police for unlawful arrest too.
Best Buy did not make the arrest. The LEO failed to investigate the crime before arresting the person. The LEO, since he was ignorant to the evidence before him, erred on side of insufficient evidence, gathered the man's information, followed up with Secret Service, or hell, his supervisor, and if it was deemed counterfeit, pursued warrants for the man later. If the cop's only evidence was because Best Buy employees marker said so, he failed to do his job. The agency is to blame, Best Buy did not make the decision only informed of a possible crime.
As an LEO I get these calls frequently from stores, particularly when younger generations are the cashier. They get the older 80's and 90's bills on occasion and call about them being fake because they don't look the same. Smaller pictures, smaller print, not the same security features. Some of my younger officers call be to inquire. No officer worth their salt would make an arrest on reasonable suspicion and if they do, they need to find a new job.
Does not matter. They filed a police report. Stating the guy was using counterfeit $2.00 bills. All the police did was take him into custody. Best Buy is held Liable for filing a false report that ended in someone being put into jail. As Ignorance of the law is not a defense. They should have known better. If the bills passed the ink test!
I know his lawyer will take Best Buys check for $50 million.
Let's just disagree, clearly you know better than me. But IMO the police are to blame for false imprisonment.
That is a sad testament to our American educational system! SMDH!
Total lack of COMMON SENSE in this country!
it really sucks
Or, parenting skills
you mean indoctrination system
As it isn't being made anymore and our educational system says there is only 1,5,10,20,50, and 100 USD bills which is also incorrect just most US citizens do not want to carry any of the higher value bills.
You also have in school you are told about the 0.01 USD coin, 0.05 USD coin, 0.10 USD and 0.25 USD coin not the 1.00 USD coin. For that I really only have seen MARTA use them but also the stores still take the 1 USD coin as it is a thing. MARTA is all capitalized as it is an acronym.
My grandfather gave us grandchildren 2 dollar bills every birthday since I was born. I have 38 of them in my safe. Not much cash wise, but it means a lot sentimentally.
Absolutely. Lots of people use them that way. If you watch the full film on this channel, you'll see some similar stories. Thanks for sharing.
The two dollar bills have been around longer than the cashier.
LOL, good point.
Longer than Best Buy too.
Or the manager, officer and every person involved getting this man in jail.
The $2 bill started being printed a year after the civil war started. My great-great-great grandparents weren’t even close to being a thought.
They've been around a lot longer than anyone alive today.
A cashier, a manager, and local township cop ALL FAILED to recognize the Money is Legal Tender. And falsely imprisoned an American citizen
That is the real crime.
Did Best Buy ever reimbursement this American citizen?
Did the local township police ever reimbursement this man? For false imprisonment...?
Actually it is worse. It is actual kidnapping and conspiracy to falsify a police report to wrongfully imprison someone.
Yeah, did they still make him pay for the installation fee they lied about? xDDD
LAWSUIT!!!
@@poolguy101 yep and mike must be wealthy and uncaring to pass it by . most people only care about themselves .
What's worse is the cop didn't even know the 2 dollar bill was legal tender.
You want to blow their mind,put a rotary phone in front of them.
An analog clock will do it these days.
A simple can opener
@@Duck_Dodgers At least get a little esoteric so they have something like an excuse - Show 'em the classic P38 out of an old military ration-pack, and watch their brains come dribbling out of their ears when you tell 'em it's a can opener! (as a medium-serious prepper, I paid something like 3 bucks for a bag of 50 of 'em years ago - Keep one on my keyring, another in my wallet, another under the insole of my boot, a couple in the glovebox of each car, and have more of 'em scattered all over the place - Too handy not to have around)
I still have a Princess phone.🇺🇸
An 8-track player and a Betamax.
Didn't go to jail but had the feds called on me at a podunk diner in Abilene, TX for paying in part with a $2 bill.
Fed chastised the owner for wasting government time and apparently was stunned, like me, to learn learn a grown adult didn't know about these. She let him have both barrels, loudly, to embarrass him in front of his other customers. Then she made him apologize to me. That was the best part of my day.😂
Terrifying that all along the way, not a single person in law enforcement knew that the $2 bill is legitimate. Again and again, the cops can be ignorant with no repercussions.
A little black girl in grade school was given a $2 dollar bill to buy lunch at school. The school dragged the little girl into the principal's office and called the cops.
It takes 5 times as much training to become a barber as a police officer. The police like their LEO's young & dumb, so that they always follow orders.
Those pens that they use to detect counterfeit bills give a high percentage of false positives
Police are cowards and complete idiot's, seems like they keep getting dumber and dumber, oh yah they are getting dumber because they only hire low i.q. scoring morons, you can't be a cop if you are smart and know how to think and use a brain, facts, ftp
Even bigger was the fact that neither the Best Buy employee or the manager knew that $2 were legal. They called the cops and faced no repercussions either. That's even worse to me. But people like you like to only talk about the cops while letting the other people get a pass.
I want that $100,000 in lawsuits in 2 dollar bills.
Jakes_Tornado. 😂😂😂😂!!!!
Jakes_Tornado good one
Bravo, that just made my day!
Manuel Enrique Peña 4 3
That's more than black people get for being wrongfully imprisoned for 10 years.
i got 80 some cents from a Burger Place when i got home i looked at the Quarters they were Susan b Anthony dollars . i think it was about time they made up for waiting a half hour for 2 burgers
Good job! About 50 years ago, my wife was helping my friend's wife run the cash register at a hamfest. I walked by to say hi and they pulled out 8 $1 silver certificates and said they looked funny. I pulled $8 out of my wallet and bought them without even thinking about it. I later shared 4 of them with my friend. :)
me too
@@Quakeboy02
lol nice!
Our local recycling center pays out in ONLY $2 Bills
I see everybody thinks like me. He should have sued the hell out of Best Buy, what an idiot. He could have gotten a lawyer and sued Best Buy and the police!
WIFIGHOST CRUISER yes. Sued for many $2 bills
How can someone work as a policeman if he doesn't know 2$ bills exist? USA is running out of people so now retards do for cops. Good luck!
I don't believe this story, fake news.
Aski No an honest mistake is getting your manager or maybe even the police to verify it. They slapped him in cuffs and arrested him before even attempting to verify the legality of the bills. I would be more upset at the police officer then the cashier or the manager.
The majority of police now a days are run by incompetent people who are under educated... this is truly sad...
That happen to me but at Subway and I paid with $1 coins. The cashier was young and would not except the coins. So I paid with my card instead but he had already called the cops on me. I didn't go to jail because the cops told the kid that they were legal coins. What are we teaching our kids in school these days.
J Dog how to be fucking ignorant morons it seems
J Dog NOTHING!!!!!
It does not surprise me. At most fast food places, if the register didn't do the math, the clerks are clueless on giving back change. I had a bill come to $3.03. I give the clerk $5.03. She give me back $2.00 plus the 3 pennies. It really is that hard for today's youth.
J Dog how to take a test pass a test and leave the school so the next generation can do the same and make the school money
Along those lines, a friend of mine from New Mexico had a check refused while trying to pay a bill. They said they "...don't accept foreign checks..." The subsequent explanation that Albuquerque is in the state of NEW MEXICO failed to impress them. The manager said "New Mexico or old Mexico, we don't accept foreign checks".
Happened to me at McDonald's. I sat in that dang drive through line until they either called their accounting department or the cops, but if they chose the cops I would sue. I was rather pleasant about the whole thing, laughing at their stupidity. They chose the accountants obviously. They were told to comp me the meal. Must have had the riot act read to them over the phone.
I worked at McDonalds as a manager for a bit. Being a coin collector since I was a kid, Im familiar with all currency the US has ever had, so getting rare cash from customers wasnt a problem for me. Got a few 2 dollar bills here and there. A couple Susan B Anthony dollar coins once. The customer thought they were quarters, which is why they were discontinued lol Would get excited when I would find buffalo nickels and wheat pennies lol
@@SvendleBerries Glad you didn't manage the McDonalds I went to 10+ years ago. I got my change and as I was putting it in my pocket noticed that one of the quarters felt odd, a little lighter than expected, and made a different sound as it clanked against the other change, looking at it I noticed it was a 1958 silver quarter. I still have it in the drawer of my desk.
@@thundasc
lol nice! Those are great moments to have. And I wouldnt have had a problem with it had I realized what you had. Would have just been "Finders keepers. Nice find!"
@@SvendleBerries When I worked at McDonalds I had to explain to our cashier what a Silver Certificate was.
@@CircleD1thats the type of bill you take $1 out of your wallet and swap for. Thats what silver certificate means.
When you're so committed to holding someone to their contract that you don't mind sitting in jail for a few hours while the secret service humiliates the promise breaker. This guy's a genius.
I'm going to go to McDonalds and ring up $3.27 in food and pay with a $2, $1 coin, and half dollar and watch the cashier lose his/her mind
You would cause a glitch in the matrix, please do not do this...
Guy did it at burger king and he was arrested and charged with counterfeiting too, until the ss said it was real
@220Dave220 ... You're a monster!
@220Dave220 ... Some men just want to watch the world burn.
You might be interested in the US two cent coin, although at current values it's a bit expensive for a prank.
I would sue Best Buy and the police department.
You'll never win that suit against the police dept. They have qualified immunity. If the officer "reasonably believes" that a crime has been committed, then they can make an arrest, and will be immune to lawsuit or prosecution, even if it turns out what happened wasn't actually a crime and the officer was just mistaken.
The Best Buy lawsuit might have some legs, though.
@Pen Griffey I'm an actual attorney, and that's EXACTLY how it works.
@Pen Griffey Of course I know what it means. I JUST DEFINED IT.
@Pen Griffey
@Pen Griffey I'm not saying the arrest is valid. It's not. But you won't win your lawsuit because of qualified immunity. This is not a complex legal concept. Just too complex for you, I guess.
Should have sued, a false arrest is NOT "OK".
There was a company in Massachusetts who wanted to see what affect they have on the community, so they paid their employees with $2.00 bills. There was $2.00 bills circulating around for years.
I would have sued Best Buy for makings false police report and sued the cops for false arrest.
Facts
Its just 2 dollar bills
All you have to do is google whether there are $2 bills. The office had no probable cause for the arrest. The department should be sued along with BestBuy. The store will lose. The police will raise immunity. But they get immunity when they actually have probable cause that turns out to be wrong. The office had no cause at any time and obviously did no independent investigation (google). So the city would pay something to make it go away.
I'd sue both.
@Dj Aho sadly they can hold you72 hours without arrest
I was a store manager and yes there are people that don’t know that $2 is legal tender.
Glenda Roberts they aren't used anymore but she it wasn't fake
"tender"
always reminds me of chicken tenders :)
CHEETO BIRD yes they are. Just for some reason they make so few of it.
Santiago Ferrari Yes it's legal tender for the public for those 1K and 10K bills. But who the hell would pay someone 1K bill at Walmart!? Those bills are worth more than their actual currency value.
Instagram is wayy more important than history class
This man hopefully was compensated for his jail time! Fifty thousand dollars a day seems very reasonable ! I hope he sued!
25,000 is the maximum
There are so many ignorant people in this country. It makes me ashamed.
I blame the education system. I don't know of any other country in the world where you can leave school without knowing what coins and bills are available as official means of payment. That's absolutely key, right after being able to read, write, count, and do some basic math.
@@xcoder1122
Ignorant people are more easily maipulated and weaponized.
The cashier and the cop should've gotten arrested for being so stupid 😆
Robert Toe when suspected of fake money that’s what they have to unti hey see if it’s real it could have been fake $2 bills but the cashier didn’t know so the cop had to go by being fake till they got in people who knew more
jonathan lundstrom just because they never seen a two dollar bill doesn't mean that is fake it's still legal tender and they are lucky that the guy didn't decide to sue them. The two dollar bill is still in circulation today. 😆
jonathan lundstrom in the United States of America you a "Innocent" until proven "Gulity"! This man should have never been arrested in the first place. The call to the secret service should had been made when the money was first produced, if there was a question. The cashier and cop showed their stupidity.
Bill L he could've sue if he wanted to.
Errol Moo what do you mean?
That guy should sue for wrongful imprisonment
I had a 2 dollar bill when I was a kid, during the Bicentennial. It still amazes me that people don't realize there is a 2 dollar bill.
This man better have taken this to court
He should sue and request his payment in 2's when he wins.
Holden Hutto GIVE ME MY TWO DOLLARS!!!!!
(From better off dead)
Holden Hutto that would be such sweet revenge... then go around spendin them everywhere for a few more lawsuits !! 😅😅
That’s an outstanding idea
Lol
Can everyone PLEASE stop talking about suing rather it be Best Buy or the police or the prosecutor or whoever you cannot sue for the facts presented in this case. The only way the prosecutor or others could be liable is if they knowingly pursued false charges against you. This is nearly impossible to prove when it DOES happen and it doesn't seem to fit the facts of this case. Police are covered by “investigatorial immunity.” As long as an officer is acting reasonably in their employment, their actions, even if mistaken in the end, are protected from civil suit. Best Buy did nothing but refuse service and call the police. Any business can refuse service for just about any reason barring race, religion, sex, ect. Calling the police in and of itself is never something you can sue for. The only cause for a suit would be if the business knowingly gave false information or made a statement they knew to be false AND that could be proven. To call the cops and say he tried to pay with this bill and handing it over to the police is in no way a false statement. You people in the comments are either sue happy or just don't understand the law. Google tort law and get educated because all the people saying you should of sued look very ignorant.
I paid for gas with a few 2 dollar bills about a week ago and the young lady said she can't take it because it was fake and she never seen one before. I said, "the treasurey has been making them since 1862." She said "yeah OK" I had to show her on Google and even customers said they are real. After awhile she ended up accepting the cash. It cracks me up laughing when younger people don't know they exist.
I'm forteen and I have a couple, do they still make them?
J Arnett yes, but on a much smaller scale than all the other bills. The last time a denomination was permanently retired was decades ago in 1969 - the $500, $1000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills. They are all still legal tender though and some casinos have some.
The last printing of the $2 was 2003. No more, as yet, have been printed since then.
Yogi Demis I do know they exist because well. I have like 10 $2 bills
I'm currently 23 and i know they exist, hell i was taught in school that 2 dollar bills are still in circulation
Everyone who bets on horses knows about $2 bills.
I once paid my groceries with a $5 silver certificate. The HEB clerk called management, which assured her that yes, that is real money.
If a grocery chain in Texas can understand silver certificates, then there’s no excuse for Best Buy or the police to not recognize that a $2 bill is legal currency.
Ouch.....those things are more valuable as collectors items. Back when I was a kid my Dad collected silver certificates from friends and neighbors and we went to the SF Mint to redeem them for actual silver just before they discontinued that policy. Best part was when we were waiting in line outside took a short walk around the corner and there were armed guards taking a pallets of ingots from the armored truck into the Mint. For some reason the guards didn't want us to loiter and watch them lol
This all started with Best Buy waiving that free installation, and suddenly called Mike to say "The police will come if you don't pay now"
This should have ended with a lawsuit to Best Buy and the Police Department.
This if exactly where it would have ended with me at the receiving end of a call like that. I would have just laughed and called that BB manager an uneducated yokel bullshit and told him I won't be back. Let him try call the police, it's not a criminal matter.
Best Buy is overpriced, often 20-30% more than anywhere else.
Surrounded by idiots? I know the feeling.
That's is what scar said lol
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This just shows how poor the education system is in America.
Can confirm. It's happened to me too. But I didn't go to jail. Luckily the manager knew they were real and set the cashier girl straight. People are so stupid it blows my mind.
There is a difference between stupidity and ignorance. I understand the frustration, but ignorance is a solvable problem. And when people are so ignorant that they don't know they're ignorant, it's going to take non-ignorant people to educate them, and of your convinced they're stupid, it probably isn't going to happen. For me, it's helpful to remember that we were all born totally ignorant.
I like when i get a Susan B Anthony dollar coin with my quarters !
@@charliemartin5482 I prefer the Sacagawea dollars with my quarters, the artwork is better.
that answers the question of how democrates get elected
@@benpool4953 Actually, the cashier, the manager, and the policeman in the story were all stupid-ass Republicans. Look it up.
I'm not surprised most cashier's can't count change. Let alone ID a bill.
In 1st grade we built a market in our classroom .we all had to work it .you had to learn to count change .the year was 1958 !
So true I've had to tell them how much they owed me in change before the school systems are failing the kids of today but like some say dumb people are easy to control so maybe its planned
@@charliemartin5482 Yeah my grandfather went to school in the 50s and taught me to use the change you've got. Like if it's $3.18 and you have a $5 and a quarter. It wasn't until I worked at a convenience store that I realized how great it was. If enough people do it, you'll never really run out of quarters or dimes. And have less customers paying with $5-10 in change since they kept their bills longer.
Part of the issues is that in a typical cash drawer, there is no place for $2 bills... So they have to throw them under the drawer and then remember to pull them out when it's time to check out the register
@@ArtStoneUS Let be honest here, they dont keep $50 or $100 bills in the top either, they go under the drawer too
I was "that guy" when I was 17. I worked the graveyard shift 10-2 at BK in 1983 & a guy pays with a horse blanket $5 in the drive thru. I looked it over, it was super bright green, humongous, & I finally said I can't accept this it isn't a real 5. So he says, "look at the date", & it was something like 1923. It was in perfect like new condition. So then I accepted it with the manager's approval.
You should have just swapped it with your own $5 bill.
@@Quakeboy02 the manager got it. I rarely carried cash in those days to keep myself from spending it, so i didnt even have $5 on me.
@@wayneanderson8034 That's a shame.
If he was smart he would have laid down the moment they said he could go, pretended to be having a heart attack, leave in an ambulance, and sue Best Buy for the pain and anguish they caused him.
Whenever a cashier holds my money in the light, i always follow up with the comment “Not bad huh?” 😂
Hahahaha
Pro tip: cashiers hear that line about five times a day. They don’t find it funny anymore.
Vgamer311 ...haha, im sure you’re right. That’d be annoying as hell
@@dankcastle9092 im gonna say that...great
I get this one guy in our bar, usually pays with a 50 or 100. I always check because its the responsible thing to do and its my job. He always says "How'd i do? Did they come out alright?" I reply, "Hell yea, while you're at it, print me about $100k next time, i need a vacation" 😆
Tell me there isnt a problem with education in this country? even with officials, unbelievable!
the dumbing down of Americans is working.
i have a two dollar bill i found it while hitch hiking across 275 south bypass thru atlanta ga.. back in 2009. i still have it to this day..
If you're an American citizen and you don't know we have 2 dollar bills in our currency, you shouldn't be a COP. I hope this guy sues Best Buy AND the police, and I hope the judge makes them pay in 2-dollar bills.
🤣
Even the police should know better
Cops are stupid as hell. I had one pull me over one night for supossedly speeding. He asked me what makes you think you can go 45 on this road. I pointed to the 45 mph speed limit sign directly behind him . NO JOKE !!!!!!!!!!
I guess he was new or something and didnt know the speed limit on that road
He should have paid using $3 bills...problem solved 🙄
FrozenHorse I would if sued
FrozenHorse
Cops are never known for being intelligent as only a GED is required Look at the dumb cop in Utah arresting and kidnapping a nurse
Officer is told that he has a bunch of fake bills hes going to do his job and take him in collect evidence and investigate. They investigated and released him. People can make fake $2 bills too.
You need to sue both of them the police always say to you that ignorance of the law is no excuse so it was no excuse for either of them
Is that you Daddy Derek?
did your punctuation keys fall off your keyboard?
@@DaveDepilot-KFRG its not an essay dipdo its youtube
Can't sue the police. They have "qualified immunity" ...if they have a reasonable suspicion of a crime they can do what they like.
@@marquisdelafayette1929 That's true but its not "reasonable" to think a bill is counterfeit based solely on the domination of the bill. This guy does have a case!
When I did training at a certain store, I remember $2 bills being mentioned several times and it stood out to me. Now I know why lol
Just like this girl employee at Wal-mart. I asked her where the embroidery section was, and she asked me to repeat the word. i said it again, and also explained what embroidery was. She said she has never heard of the word "embroidery" before. Weird, because she's a female. Some people, usually younger folks just don't know things.
I had something similar happen. I used to Work at a factory and the Change Machine gave us 1 dollar coins for the food vending machines. I tried to use the coins at a local wal-mart and this Very Rude and Stupid cashier said these are not real and called a manager, which to my delight treated her like and idiot and then Apologized to me for her stupidity.
Dragon Drunkard - Both the Sacagawea coin and the Susan B. Anthony confuse Walmartians.
Sometimes it works the other way... "That'll be $1.24 please." So I hand her a $5 bill, and she gives me back a little over $6 in change. The "quarters" she gave me were Susan B Anthony's. I didn't notice until I tried to spend them in a vending machine.
jmar1371 - Yeah, those Susan B's were ridiculous. You know that to introduce new currency there has to be meetings, bills need to be introduced, items voted on, artist renditions to be studied etc. And during all that Government bullshit absolutely no one said "Hey, don't you think this might be confused with a quarter?"
I had something like that happen to me, too. Paid for something at a store with a couple of SBA dollars. The cashier told me that they "didn't take those." I replied "Yes, you do. They're legal US tender." She had to have the manager explain that to her. It would have been funny if it hadn't been so sad.
Jim Sanborn - What is sad is that those same people can vote in National elections, have children and operate motor vehicles.
When i turned 21, the bar i used to frequent sold bottle beer for $2 each. Every weekend i used to go with a stack of $2 bills and use only them when paying. No change to deal with, and the bartenders always loved having a couple of these thrown their way as a tip. Everyone loved it, and never once did any bartender or patron think they were fake.
They are very convenient in many circumstances. Thanks for sharing.
Travis good cool story..
40 years ago it was a big deal when you needed to cash a $100 bill to buy 5 bucks worth of gas and a .25 cent candy bar when traveling.
Today, $100’s buy about what a $20 did in 1980, so why are cashiers still nervous about cashing one?
Some $2 bills are worth way more than their face value.
Sounds like he could've gotten a lot more two dollar bills off of multiple lawsuits...
deaderer 000 yup i would have sued for a million but in $2 dollar bills .
He should have sued Best Buy and the police dept. Not just for himself but for everybody. Police and business's have to be held responsible for their bad actions or it will continue.
In this case, the police officer was just doing his job.
You are incorrect. He didn't commit a crime. It's called false arrest and the police department can and should be sued for it.
You're an idiot if you really think that Rom
In this case, the guy was held for an investigation. When it was over he was freed. This isn't a false arrest, little did you realize there was foreign ink on them which gave them a false reading.
Being held for investigation? What are you, a cop? Disgusting that anyone would defend this shit. Bro, I hope a cop "holds you for investigation" during the holidays lol.
False arrest,kidnapping and false imprisonment he should sue Best Buy and the police department
My daughter was a manager at a franchised craft store and would regularly get called to authenticate pre-1995 bills because of the smaller portraits.
I taught all my kids to spot real money back to a hundred years ago.
It always gives me a chuckle when I see one of those pens because they fail to detect that news print us not real money.
Besides the cashier along with the manager not knowing that $2 bills are real legal tender, it blows my mind that the police didn't know either. Why didn't they just call any bank to verify this before the secret service?
Tim Roll these dumb ass,s are so sure of themselves
They get so confused by the changing of the wing that anything that can trip them up just totally freezes the programming. Amazing any criminals get caught. I guess it shows how dumb they actually are.
Smart people don't become cops.
@@Fazzel They actually CAN'T. Places in America looking for cops are giving IQ tests, and if you pass with too high a number, they won't hire you. Seems we prefer MORONS for our armed officials, now. And we wonder why people keep on getting shot for sitting in their cars.
@@willmorrison1022 because stupid people are easier to control
I use $ 2.00 bills all the time here in Vermont and I am surprised at how many people don't believe they are real. My bank orders them from the Federal Reserve weekly.
clydo1946 there is a store in Berlin VT right off I89 that gives out a lot of $2 bills. Every time I go there I am handed a $2 bill any time the change is $2 or more.
This is my first time ever hearing about a $2 bill
Gotta love the US education system.
Me too. I like to fuck with those public schooled imbeciles they release on the public to deal with. I even use $1 dollar Susan B Anthony coins. They really screw with them. They think there quarters.
Master Chief 00117 i love Susan B dollars i collect them when i find them same with half dollars , silver dollars and bicentennial quarters got nearly 100 dollars worth in a hidden spot at home
There is an epidemic of incompetence in our country.
if you don't know we have two dollar bills in our currency you don't be a cop lmfaoooo
Or a cashier, or store manager. lol
I am sick and tired of people like you trying to pay with legal U.S. tender.
😂
I know. Friggin scumbag.
For real!!! For once, I would like somebody to go to prison.
The cashier at a chevron tried to scam me out of a $20 telling me its fake, I said im calling the cops, she said they’re already on their way, you better get outta here, so I said Im calling the cops anyway cuz that just came from the bank, she handed me back the bill, I said you’re not gonna complete my sale? She said no, the cops will be here any minute, you better leave, crazy bitch, Ive filed complaints but shes still working there after 2 years
How dare you pay me with money!!!Lol
That also shows how intelligent the police force is, they also didnt know 2$ bills were actual american currenct
I'm not sure why people are blaming the officers, they are simply doing their job, they got a call that there was counterfeit money, they showed up and by law legally have to validate it. The one's where were in the wrong were the stupid Best Buy cashier and manager.
theskeletonboi | I totally agree.
theskeletonboi Yeah it sounds awful but for all they know there was legitimate reason to believe the $2 bills were faked.
I don't think they're legally required to arrest anybody based on an accusation. There was no evidence of counterfeit other than "these are $2 bills". Officer should have just walked away laughing.
Mike Russell if it's not shooting a minority they're gunna have a hard time with it.
Yep.
That's our education system today.
It’ll probably cost more to counterfeit a whopping $2 bill than the actual value. People are so stupid!
Oh, it is more apparent as the days progress.
Im gonna start counterfeiting pennies, very profitable
Rick weaver you can always do quarters in a sand castle mold
I saw on tv once they caught a man for counter fitting 1 doller bills .he had been passing them for 40 some years .he never stuck out spending money .
Cashiers should take a test on currency before getting the job.
Their would be an instant shortage of cashiers.
You're thinking of a bank teller. Cashiers are low level jobs given to teen agers. It's completely reasonable the cashier thought the $2 bills were fishy, and they did the right thing getting the manager. You see something that's out of the ordinary, you get your manager. That's where it should have ended. The fact that the manager had no clue $2 bills existed is pretty damn sad, and then what's completely inexcusable is the officer made an arrest in his ignorance.
@@SoDamnMetal You're saying that teenagers can't normally count money. What high school did you attend?
@Keith Steward That's just ignorant and unreasonable lol. The only reason I know about $2 bills is because my dad gave them to me to collect when i was a child. I've literally never seen one being used in any transaction.
@@rob1248996 What about never seeing a $2 bill suggests I ever said they can't "count" money?
A friend of mine worked as convenience store cashier back in the ‘90s. He was always on lookout for the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins. People spent them like the quarters that they looked like and not a single person ever said hey thats a dollar not a quarter. He pocketed the .75 cent difference and now some of those coins are worth $2-$3.
Never thought someone would go to jail over 2.00 bills! 🤣😆😂 Hey it's money and it's legal tender.
Amazing, right? This kind of thing has happened a few other times, on a smaller scale.
I once tried to pass off an $18 dollar bill in an old country store,when I asked for change he said "you want two nines or three sixes?"
Drat, no wonder when I got change for an $15 bill I got two 6's and an 3....
Shane Rountree *a not an
surveyguyor look above my comment and who I'm specifically addressing before you call me wrong. It should be "a $15 bill" (a fifteen dollar bill) and "a 3" (a three), not "an $15 bill" (an fifteen dollar bill) or "an 3" (an three).
surveyguyor *work on your reading comprehension, dip shit.* I wasn't responding to the original poster who said "an $18" that is correct. I was specifically responding to the other person who said "an $15" and "an 3" and even said that "an 3" was incorrect.
surveyguyor No your comprehension is shitty because clearly you keep saying I'm in error, when your lack of comprehension is what puts *you* in error. I was responding to *Shane Rountree.* The guy who commented above me and made an error. I was *not responding to roger pack.* the original poster. You're too damn dense to see that despite it being pointed out to you. I also _clearly_ acknowledged using "a" *instead* of "an" before the number 3. Read my comments again, word by word. You are the one who is wrong, and projecting your error onto me is what makes you a dip shit.
Between the $2 bills and 50 cent peices, cashiers do not know enough about our currency!
People today don't know much about ANYTHING!
The problem is that $2 are a rare sight. Yes they exist and are still in circulation but I dont think new ones are printed anymore but I could be wrong about that. Just so few people have seen them that they dont know they arent just a joke. It's like thousand dollar bills. They do exist and were actual us currency. Though are not in circulation anymore and cant be used. People would think they are fake and were never legal currency. I myself, in 30 years, have maybe only seen 4, $2 Bill's. So it's not uncommon that a cashier would have never seen one before and not know they exist. Cops on the other hand should know better.
@Keith Steward not being sexist but was the manager also a woman and under 25? If it's not something you deal with every day then sometimes you dont know what it is. I'm sure there are clothing items for women that male cashiers dont know about. I work in a hardware/home improvement store and I get customers who ask me if we sell something and many times I've never heard of it. Usually something for a house. I've never owned one so never had to deal with home building, repair or remodel. Or the people who want to know how to fix something and I just tell them that I know less than they do, and "have you tried UA-cam" lol. And yes I'm a cashier. Cashiers don't need to know about the products. That's why they have people who are assigned to each specific department. Lesson for the day, dont ask the cashier questions lol
But now he knows there is 3 dollar bill is out there
Don't forget the $1 coin.
I used to have $2 Bills all the time. Got them from the bank.
I just got a new job working in a restaurant and the cashier accepted a fake $20 that clearly said it was ‘ prop money’, he even used the counterfeit pen on it and it failed, took it anyway!
If Best Buy is that stupid then why would I want to purchase electronics from them.
Price is why. Has nothing to do with value. Do your homework Big difference.
Because you are too stupid to be able to build your own.....lol
And this shows the immemse stupidity of the general public.
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Arctic Frank! We've* genius* You only capitalize the first letter in a sentence. You need to put the apostrophe in there too, that's basic grammar.
Ethorbit: Ha, ha, good one man. Almost soiled my Hanes undergarment laughing.
How are the lawsuits
I love how they checked each $2 bill to show they were real and still called the police
If you pass a fake bill, the secret service won't necessarily charge you. Plenty of people have fake cash passed off to them without noticing, then innocently try to pass it to other people. The telling factor was earlier in the story where Best Buy threatens to call the cops for nonpayment, which is a civil, not criminal matter.
I can understand if a young cashier had never seen a $2 bill. She did the right thing and called her manager because she didn't know. It was the manager that failed.
They are also leaving out key details, he was using hundreds of dollars of 2$ bills and that there was foreign ink on them which likely cause the false reading. Honestly no one was truly in the wrong and they all did their job.... But bleeding hearts always win lawsuits like these. (And yes he did sue and some how won)
SilvaDreams Dude he used 50 $2 bills not hundreds
Nawww, fuck that kid he should have known. It's a cashier's job to handle money and to know what to do with it. So if you don't know all your money, that's like being a truck driver without knowing any roads.
Johndoe best buy's fault to not train their cashiers and managers.
Not only did the manager fail for not knowing a $2 is real, but so did the cop. I mean I give respect to cops for the fact that they deserve it. But how can you put on a uniform and a badge and represent your city, state, and country but not know your own currency? How can you say that a $2 bill isn't real but can tell me what every single law there is? Granted I know he went there with a bit over $100 worth of $2 bills, if you know $2 bills are a real thing, then why would you think someone is actually dumb enough to pay with that much in counterfeit $2 bills? Especially at the age he is. Its really surprising me that there are more dumb asses walking around then I realized.
If you dont know america has $2.00 bills then you're not a true american lol
Ace D That's a fact Jack
Or just an idiot lol
The majority of people in the USA have never seen a 2 dollar bill. unless you go to a race track you probably will not see one. I have several in the drawer that I give out as part of a gift.Try giving someone a Susan B Anthony dollar coin and see what happens.
Im not even american and even i knew about this.
I had the POST OFFICE question a $2 bill once… the manager was like, “Hey cool…! Yes that’s real, just put it under the drawer.”
While working in pubs and clubs in the UK, if we got unusual notes, we'd call an expert not accuse the customers of passing counterfeits and get them arrested. By law, we'd have to confiscate any counterfeits, and the owner would either waive all rights and walk away or try to reclaim them off the police. The only time you'd get arrested if you tried to pass a huge amount in one lump sum. All they had to do was google $2 bill ffs.
Why would you call the secret service for that ? . That's going too far. The manager should of gotten fired for putting him through that.
OtakuMan hakdre55 its protocol in most cases involving alleged currency fraud.
You call the secret service because anything to do with currency is the secret service responsibility.
> Why would you call the secret service for that ?
They should call their kindergarten teacher, have them repeat some lessons.
The Secret Service was started during Lincoln's presidency, at the time almost half the entire USD was counterfeit. I don't think it was until the 1950s or shortly after when the Secret Service began protecting the POTUS.
Nevermind, Google says the Secret Service began protecting people after the assassination of President McKinley in 1901. And the next year their protection detail became official and full-time.
Why should the manager be fired? It was the police officer who failed. I can falsely assume out of ignorance that someone is commiting a felony and call the cops.
But it is the cops who should know what is a felony and what a simple misunderstanding.
I truly do hope that guy went back to the same Best Buy to the same cashier to purchase again with $2 bills
... LoL !!!! - Best Buy Probably Fired the Employee when They Lost in Court
LOL! I just searched to see if anyone else had said that. The Best Buy people would have been totally freaked out if he casually walked back to the counter and said, "I'm here to complete my purchase that I was just arrested for legally attempting to do."
ledfootfam99. Or better yet, take them to court and sue for what they did to him.
RamZ I can hear it now... I hereby order you to pay the accused full restitution in $2 bills =P So you've won your case, what will you do now?.... Well, I always had an interest in Susan B Anthony's...
Scary part: The cashier, store manager and cop had no access to the internet. 🤦♂️
Seems like an outstanding man. Not sure i would of been so kind about that