Houston School Officials Call Police After Student Tries Buying Lunch With $2 Bill

[JustSomeOldGuy]

The only thing dumber than counterfeiting $2 bills would be counterfeiting $1 bills..............or not knowing what a $2 bill is..........

[Pawpaw]

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

I read one article that mentioned the pen didn't work. Still, why would you even test such a small denomination if you knew real $2 bills exist? The answer is that you wouldn't. No counterfeiter would waste their time on a $2 bill. That would be counterproductive, to say the least.

[jmorris]

The only thing dumber than counterfeiting $2 bills would be counterfeiting $1 bills..............or not knowing what a $2 bill is..........

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/f ... e-1.109016

Well, it was around 1938 so the dollar was worth something.

[JustSomeOldGuy]

When training new staff, or retraining/refreshing current staff, I remind them that the 'pen' only tells you if the paper (yeah, I know, it's NOT really paper) is legitimate, not that the bill is. It can still be a lower denomination bill that was bleached and reprinted in a higher value.....

[WildBill]

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

I read one article that mentioned the pen didn't work. Still, why would you even test such a small denomination if you knew real $2 bills exist? The answer is that you wouldn't. No counterfeiter would waste their time on a $2 bill. That would be counterproductive, to say the least.

When I was a kid I remember reading about a Secret Service case where some people were counterfeiting nickels!

[Dadtodabone]

J.S.G. Boggs
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... st/308425/

[n5wd]

The feds let them sell chicken nuggets at a school?

Yeah, but they're baked instead of fried.

[Mick22]

The only thing dumber than counterfeiting $2 bills would be counterfeiting $1 bills..............or not knowing what a $2 bill is..........

Exactly!!!! Who in their right mind would counterfeit $2 dollar bills?

[puma guy]

The only thing dumber than counterfeiting $2 bills would be counterfeiting $1 bills..............or not knowing what a $2 bill is..........

Exactly!!!! Who in their right mind would counterfeit $2 dollar bills?

The guy who decided to double his money after printing $1 bills.

[WildBill]

The only thing dumber than counterfeiting $2 bills would be counterfeiting $1 bills..............or not knowing what a $2 bill is..........

Exactly!!!! Who in their right mind would counterfeit $2 dollar bills?

The guy who decided to double his money after printing $1 bills.

It's called being an entrepreneur.