Houston School Officials Call Police After Student Tries Buying Lunch With $2 Bill.
HOUSTON, TX -- There are some people who've never seen a $2 bill, including, it would seem police, school officials and cafeteria workers in Houston who were convinced an eighth-grader was using counterfeit money to buy chicken nuggets during lunch.
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“I went to the lunch line, and they said my $2 bill was fake,” the eighth-grader told KTRK-TV. “They gave it to the police. Then they sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big trouble.”
Just how dumb are some of the "educators" down there?
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
“I went to the lunch line, and they said my $2 bill was fake,” the eighth-grader told KTRK-TV. “They gave it to the police. Then they sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big trouble.”
Just how dumb are some of the "educators" down there?
Of course that is a rhetorical question.
Charges were not filed. But the grandmother is still upset over the entire episode.
I was praying this was a belated April Fools. This is beyond ridiculous.
In high school our head football coach was also AD and he would join the baseball team on playoff trips or tournaments and give us each three $2 bills for meal money. Some guys would even exchange with other guys so they'd see how many $2 bills they could save. Kind of an inside game/joke with us.
wheelgun1958 wrote:Just wait until the Harriet Tubmans arrive.
That's hilarious! If they look close to the weird mock ups I've seen on local news & websites, I may not accept them myself! I really thought it was a joke at first because the mock ups were so horrible. I'm not trying to offend Harriet Tubman, but the artist renderings were terrible!
Don't educators watch TV or sell their scrap aluminum or AC condensers they have just stolen from a neighbors previously working AC system and get paid in $2 bills.
I read that the real issue was not that it was $2 bill, but that the bill tested as counterfeit with the "money testing pen" that the cashier used. Then, suspecting that the student may have coped a genuine bill on a coper or printer they contacted the police who then took the bill to a bank for evaluation. The bank people were able to verify that the bill was authentic. It was not a case of not knowing what a $2 bill was, but more a case of a bad authentication process at the school.
dave_in_austin wrote:I read that the real issue was not that it was $2 bill, but that the bill tested as counterfeit with the "money testing pen" that the cashier used. Then, suspecting that the student may have coped a genuine bill on a coper or printer they contacted the police who then took the bill to a bank for evaluation. The bank people were able to verify that the bill was authentic. It was not a case of not knowing what a $2 bill was, but more a case of a bad authentication process at the school.
There you go...ruining a good story with the truth.
I've heard that some of the more "disreputable nightclubs" in Dallas hand out $2 bills as change to help out the independent contractor "performers" that provide "entertainment" at said venues...
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In the 1980's when I was in college, we used to ask the bank to order $2 bills when they did their monthly cash orders. We would then cash paychecks from our jobs and ask for $2's which were immediately recycled in the local bar on $2 Budweiser Pitcher night and $2 chicken wings night.
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dave_in_austin wrote:I read that the real issue was not that it was $2 bill, but that the bill tested as counterfeit with the "money testing pen" that the cashier used. Then, suspecting that the student may have coped a genuine bill on a coper or printer they contacted the police who then took the bill to a bank for evaluation. The bank people were able to verify that the bill was authentic. It was not a case of not knowing what a $2 bill was, but more a case of a bad authentication process at the school.
I haven't been able to find that in any articles I read, but I heard in a TV report that the "pen didn't work". The pens do not work on bills printed prior to 1960 per the information I've read. I believe the people involved had no idea there were actually two dollar bills and if it hadn't been a two dollar bill I'm betting it would never have been tested in the first place. MHO
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I am aware of two HS kids at a prominent private school here in Houston who produced $5 bills and sold them at school for like $20 for $50. Not sure what they did to age them, but their plan didn't last long.
