Saturday, February 26, 2011

"Legal Tender"? More like terrorist money!



 There's an relatively old outrageous story about a man being detained for using LEGAL tender at a Best Buy. Oh Best Buy, as if I needed more reasons to hate you. You're Your unknowledgable work force will try to shove a $200 HDMI cable down my throat but won't tell my grandmother that the 500 DVD player won't play Blurays. I guess I can't hate Best Buy directly for this but the worker there isn't the sharpest tool in the shed...Here's the story in short:


PUT YOURSELF in Mike Bolesta's place. On the morning of Feb. 20, he buys a new radio-CD player for his 17-year-old son Christopher's car. He pays the $114 installation charge with 57 crisp new $2 bills, which, when last observed, were still considered legitimate currency in the United States proper. The $2 bills are Bolesta's idea of payment, and his little comic protest, too.
For this, Bolesta, Baltimore County resident, innocent citizen, owner of Capital City Student Tours, finds himself under arrest.
Finds himself, in front of a store full of customers at the Best Buy on York Road in Lutherville, locked into handcuffs and leg irons.
Finds himself transported to the Baltimore County lockup in Cockeysville, where he's handcuffed to a pole for three hours while the U.S. Secret Service is called into the case.
For the full story, click here

Edit: fixed the hard to read story. Sorry!

21 comments:

  1. Whoa.... but you know what, I'm gonna do this next time I make a transaction. I smell lawsuit...

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  2. I never shop at best buy because everything is so overpriced. I rather get everything online plus there's no taxes :D

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  3. I didn't know $2 bills were still around. Up here we have $2 coins and use them daily.

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  4. Well that's just sad, poor guy.

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  5. Thats insane! Glad I'm following!

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  6. leg irons?! were the bills tainted with anthrax? i bet theres a pretty decent lawsuit in this...

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  7. I never knew about $2 bills...cool

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  8. Best Buy's credit card is ridiculous. It keeps increasing its interest, so I just closed mine. This man was smart for using cash yet they send him to jail!

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  9. i almost got arrested once buying gas with lawful money instead of legal tender. i was using 1oz silver pieces. it happens.

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  10. Leg irons? Really? Wow. Way to overreact :/

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  11. Oh wow. Fuck them. Poor guy. Also, your, not you're.

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  12. What!? You can get arrested for not using big notes? What the hell...

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  13. and this folks its what i call overreacting

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  14. I can't believe people are that dumb. :)

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  15. I'm sure this doesn't happen very often does it <_< great blog though! Keep updating, will be following (;

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  16. what the hell? this makes NO SENSE!

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  17. We don't take kindly to your kind 'round here, an' your money's no good 'round these parts.

    I wonder how much time and taxpayer money was wasted over just this one event. Things like this happen ALL THE TIME.

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