TX-13 y/o arrested by school cops for using $2 bill to pay for lunch.

[Mani]

For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."


It's a sign that you are paranoid to the point of needing to be institutionalized for the safety of the community at large.

Just what in the fuck does 9/11 have to do with anything. A guy paid for a service in $2 USD notes. How the fuck do you go from a disagreement about accepting various tender to 9/11 terrorists slamming planes into buildings!??! How do you even make that leap? How the fuck!?!?



"Dude is paying in $2 bills..."


"OMG 9/11 LOCK HIM UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


What? How is a $2 bill making you nervous and feeling threatened?







So basically if you do anything that is deemed ever so SLIGHTLY out of the norm (paying a bill with legal tender that's somewhat rare) you open yourself up to humiliation, arrest, chained to a pole for several hours, and thank God this guy for being as tall as he is didn't show any sign of resistance, or he would not have lived to tell his story, or he'd be telling it from a hospital bed.

The scary part is what is considered norm keeps changing and what is considered out of norm keeps expanding.


I haven't seen a $2 bill in years but when I have dealt with it during a transaction, I usually just react, "Oh hey neat...Look at that....cool..." accept the note and move on. End of story, like you would expect any normal person to deal with that transaction.

 

[osan]

Some people are just imbeciles.

You insult imbeciles gravely and edify "some people" to stratospheric heights undeserved.

 

[oyarde]

It's a sign that you are paranoid to the point of needing to be institutionalized for the safety of the community at large.

Every single adult involved in this should be fired , and would be if they worked for me .

 

[Zippyjuan]

I could understand not accepting it because it did not look right to them, but arresting the kid? Did the think she printed it up? That was a way over the top reaction.

What the bill in question looked like (it was not one of the newer version $2 bills most people have probably seen):

Current version:

 

[pcosmar]

Every single adult involved in this should be fired , and would be if they worked for me .

And those with badges should be charged with Violation of civil rights under color of law.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Once had a person at the register refuse to take one of my US legal tender bills. Apparently another store had given me a silver certificate I didn't notice. I said "thanks, I'll go ahead and take that back..."