Gotta bump this up.

And wouldn't he have a bigger lawsuit againist the police, if anyone for the arrest, than Best Buy.

Based on the above statement, Best Buy had a right to call the police.

Best Buy told this guy he had free installation. They then called him at home saying he still owed them money and if he didn't pay it, they would call the police.

The guy was good enough to actually pay them (I would have told them to shove that fee up their asses) but did so with $2, unusual but LEGAL tender.

The Dumbass Best Buy employee (or is that redundant), not recognizing the legal tender, called the police on the guy anyway. The Dumbass Cop, not recognizing legal tender either, arrested him for no good reason.



Having money with smeared ink is NOT ILLEGAL (as the Secret Service later informed the Dumbass Cop). Having bills in sequential order is NOT ILLEGAL (since his bank issuing the bills to him that way demonstrates). Just because neither the Dumbass Best Buy employee or the Dumbass Cop knew the law or could recognize real money when they saw it is no defense.

The guy didn't do anything wrong. He went out of his way to pay a bill with legitimate currency. He was ARRESTED for it.

He should sue their fucking balls off.

I wonder, how often do the wrongful arrest suits result in positive outcome for the plaintiff. Does anyone know?

Is paying with $2 dollar bills illegal?

why yes .. yes it is.

Not everyone lives in Canada :-P

But why would the government make $2 bills than make them illegal?

How else would they arrest anyone?

According to the police chief, you can never be too careful in this post 9-11 world.

Its just money. Why would they arrest people over paying for something with money? This is stupid.

You guys should be ashamed of yourselves [-( =;

Spiderman ... the 2$ bill is not illegal. It is totally fine to use the 2$ bill to pay for everything and anything. The thing is, they are very rare, and underused. This guy decided to pay with 50+ 2$ bills. The cashier was stupid, got confused, called an even stupider manager, who got confused and called an even stupider police department.

The man did nothing wrong.

I could see you working at this best buy some day, you would fit right in :razz: :-#

I should be ashamed of myself [-( =;

Actually I would not fit in. I am smarter than these dumbasses at Best Buy. Anyways I am pretty smart.

Yeh, doesn't take much to be smarter than these nimrods. I can't believe they leg schakled him.

Idiots. (Best Buy Employees) What I meant about being smart is I get basically mostly A's with a few B's.

Could you be anymore conceited?

Well, in reply to the issue; The fact that the police had be called in the first place is pitiful.

Employee: Errhmm.. These are $2.00 bills??? Whoa, this is alot. Let me call the manager...
**5 minutes later**

Manager: What seems to be the problem here?

Employee: Look at all those $2.00 bills. I don't know what to do with them?

Manager: Well, son, as your manager, I am here to make smart, logical descisions, that will ensure the happiness of both you and the customer. Because of that, Im gonna call the police.

SOME people who gets A's and B's at school are the BIGGEST idiots of them all.

They seem to skip common sense on their way to their A's and B's.


But, anyway... :razz:


*speechless*

if they tried to cuff you would you hulk out on them

You're the kind of a person who would sue a coffee shop for a lifetime supply of coffee, aren't ya?

Kramer!!!!!

I don't know whatcha talking about

If he's anything like the Best Buy managers I've talked to, it's more like:

Manager: Didn't I tell you, the customer is always wrong. I don't know if there's such a thing as a $2 bill and I don't care. This is your problem, not mine. Just call the police so I can go back to more productiving things, like being a smug asshole.*



*This is a dramatization. The managers I've talked to did not refer to themselves as smug assholes; they just were.

FYI - there were some mix-ups before the police but all BB did was call the police - the police arrested him - they are more at fault.

And The smeared ink lead to the police report. Then Finally, Secret Service agent Leigh Turner arrived, examined the bills and said they were legitimate, adding, according to the police report, "Sometimes ink on money can smear."

He examined the bills - not what you said above.

Actually, that IS what I said above. Having money with smearked ink is NOT illegal. If it were, then the SS agent would have held the guy for having money with smeared ink. But he obviously told the cop otherwise, that the money was legit and legal.

The bottom line is a guy with legitimate legal tender was arrested because no one involved could tell the difference between real money and fake money. That's wrongful arrest. And I agree that the police are more at fault than Best Buy, but that doesn't necessarily make Best Buy inculpable.

blame canada and futureshop.

That's just stupid on so many levels.

Any cop with half a brain knows how to tell counterfeit money from real money. It's all in the paper (not the ink). Real money has red and blue flecks in the paper which is nearly impossible to recreate as you can not buy that stock of paper anywhere. And the sequential numbers would point to it not being counterfeit. Very few conterfeiters change the serial numbers (they're usually all the same), and if they were going to change it they'd make them very different - not sequential. #-o

It's a weird coincidence to read this though as two weeks ago I got dispatched to a local Subway restaraunt for a possible attempt to pass counterfeit money. Turns out the dumbass employee had never seen an old style $10 bill with the smaller picture of Hamilton as opposed to the bigger pic on the new ones. Needless to say nobody was arrested here. But I did confiscate the money for further investigation (ie., taking it to Best Buy to purchase DVDs).