FASCISM UPDATE

Now they're taking away our right to use counterfeit mon... oh, wait.

Update: Now they're taking away our right to use smelly money.

(Thanks to Steve Lancaster)

(Update: Thanks to Andrea Diamond, who points out "He should have laundered the money first.)

Comments

[tyler]

That's as queer(NTTAWWT)as a stack of 57 $2 bills.

[Mahatma Kane Jeeves]

Used to get $1 coins from the bank just to get a reaction when I would spend them.

(What is this 'life' thing of which you speak?)

[Brainy Jello]

"A jailer who sniffed the money told her it smelled like marijuana, she said."

And there's nothing suspicious about the jailer knowing what pot smells like.

[etc.]

OK — I can accept their ignorance of $2 bills. But to handcuff and incarcerate the man while they take their time educating themselves at his expense? WTF?

[D'Artagnan]

I guess I won't be using my Bill Clinton $3 bills to buy marijuana anytime soon.

[Brainy Jello]

"She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I don't want to.'"

If the dictionary needs an image next to the definition of 'crapweasel,' I nominate a picture of that snotty, little bimbo right there.

[everysandwich]

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

Melissa, I'm with you. That's the best Bill Toohey could come up with? Yeah, after 9/11 we're all on edge because some terrorist might try to get away with using rare currency to pay for his car stereo installation.

[pogo]

"She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I don't want to.'"

At that point I would hav directed her attention to the line on the bill that says, "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE", and said, "Yes you do."

[Nate]

If the terrorists take away our ability to collect rare currencies, stamps, coins, and baseball cards, they really have won.

[antiroach]

"Sorry, Billy, I don't have a dime."

"I didn't ask for a dime. Two dollars. I want my two dollars!"

[queensbee]

morons. its those 15 dollar bills you have to watch out for.

[Boo Augustus]

I get so many good ideas from this blog to shake up the establishment (kinda like George Carlin's things to keep other people on their toes). I'm going right out to get a wad of two dollar bills.

On a related topic, I have about 15 credit card reply envelops saved up now. I think this weekend I will finally start filling them with random things (twigs, dead leaves, dead bugs, dryer lint, a broken shoe string, random washers and nuts, etc.) and mailing them back to the credit card processing center.

[etc.]

I suppose if he'd tried to pass a $1 million bill like that woman in Walmart several months ago, they would've said "Fine, but you'll have to wait while we run over to the bank to get change."

[queensbee]

those are wonderful things to do, boo. its called Day to Day resistance. Been going on since slavery times. just a way to make a point. i think i will start doing that too. i usually throw away the 15 or so i get during a week. and i have lots o dryer lint.

[Brainy Jello]

If you send heavier things than dryer lint in those emvelopes, they'll show up with postage due. Other junk mail makes wonderful filler and you won't have to empty the wastebasket (oh, I mean recycle bin) as often

[BigD®]

Or like someone said, tape it a brick, not that I would do that, no.

[Mr.Fishair]

Moist Excellent ideas Boo. Also might try an unwrapped candy bar, heated in the microwave a few seconds after sealing up the envelope, just before dropping it off at the post office.

D'ramp- Trade a Box of Cubans for that $3 bill, yo.

[Boo Augustus]

Heavier stuff, huh? I'l throw in some rocks and a few extra washers.

[everysandwich]

I admire your attitude, Boo, and the heavier return mail concept is brilliant, queensbee. Junk mail assumes stupidity with the come-ons, then creates it by forcing us to take it from the mailbox into the house, throw it in the trash, then take the trash can out to the curb by the mailbox. What this country needs is a mailbox with a sliding floor and a receptacle beneath it so you can collect your actual mail and condemn the junk mail to the receptacle at the curb. Patent pending.

[Guin]

My sister once filled one of those envelopes with a dead mouse her cat brought home. She never, ever received mail from that company again.

[U.O]

It's a sad, sad effing commentary on the effing educational system in our country when effing idiot people are too effing stupid to effing know what the effing term "legal tender" actually effing means ... and effing furthermore, that they don't effing know that an effing two-dollar bill is still part of the legal effing currency in this country ... effing morons ... to coin a phrase ...

it's also a sad effing commentary on the effing inept (or nonexistent) training program that this effing company has for its new employees ... and for the even effing worse effing stupidity of the effing so-called "managers" ...

[My future son-in-law (who received his education in a state where they still actually teach students something) happens to work for this company, so I am restraining my expression of disgust in my commentary.]

And to make it effing worse, the so-called "law enforcement" persons were too effing stupid to know the effing difference either ... I will not need to be effing reminded to effing stay out of effing stupid Maryland ...

sorry I got so effing pi$$ed off ...

but our country is rapidly being flushed down the (much larger than seven-gallon) toilet ...

end of effing rant ...

for now ...

sorry this is not funny

[U.O]

Sorry I picked on Maryland there.

I apologize to all the good people of Maryland.

But not to the stupid ones described in the story.

[ErnieG]

These things happen. It's not a big deal in the overall scheme of things. They should just cut him a check, a big one, and charge it to the cost of doing business. I am sure that the embarassment and adverse publicity has cost them more than any check they might write.

Every business has to operate within financial constraints, and to save money, compromises have to be made. Thus, a company saves money on safety, and spends more on Workmens Comp and liability insurance; saves on pollution abatement and spends more on fines; saves on payroll and spends more as a result of employee blunders and short staffing.

These expenses can be controlled by prudent allocation of resources, but none of them can be eliminated entirely without spending absurd amounts of money. This is what I mean by compromise. There's nothing cynical intended. The process is called management.

[U.O]

Or lack thereof.

Thank you ErnieG, for your assistance.

[insomniac]

scary thought: if Wal-Mart decided to stop accepting $2 bills, would the gov'ment stop making them?

[u.o]

Jeezly, I said I was sorry ... y'all don't hafta tiptoe around the crabby old f@rt in hopes that he won't blow up again ...

Yesterday sorta got on my nerves ...

I'm feeling better now ...

So ...

'niac -- Waldo's accepts $2 bills, huh? We'll hafta test that theory out ... and yeah, it's an unpleasant thot to know that merchants can influence government policy, but your idea is not really much different than any other lobbyist swinging a congressional vote ...

Waldo would just do it the same way they've taken over the retail world ... economies of scale ...

as in ...

We're the biggest thing in the world (?) and we can import more merchandise and export more jobs or work than the government has in its entire control ... so, you'd better listen to us, and do what we say ...

come to think of it ... that IS scary ...

[Tracey]

As I was born and raised in Greensburg, Indiana, and now live in Maryland, I believe I was just twice insulted.

And for good reason!