Gasper was told by Horner to take the bill to a bank and have it exchanged for a newer one.[More]I hope Gasper's lawyer tells Horner something.
This whole trend of clerks using pens on bills really does reflect the degradation of our culture. Time was, if you publicly accused a man of being a cheat or a thief, getting floored would mean you got off easy.
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now that is a riot.
with the surname gaspar i suspect he looked too latino or hispanic for them. and of course, any bill larger than $20 is suspect in this day and age.
i don't intend to laugh at his plight, but on the bright side, any opportunity to tell the police to go fly a kite is worth taking. these don't fall in your lap every day.
what i do intend to point out is that gaspar is derived from the persian kaspur. it means treasurer, and it is traditionally assigned to one of the three wise men that brought gifts before christ in the manger.
i assert that this qualifies for total administrative confusion, per cooper.
let it be "Making Change at a Tennessee Qwik-E-Mart."
I have a $100 Federal Reserve Note series of 1928. It states on it that it is "redeemable in gold" at any Federal Reserve Bank. I've taken it in a couple of times. No surprise but they decline to honor the promise.
In the mid 1980's I attempted to purchase a Postal Money order at the Post Office (where else?) using $100 bills and the clerk want to see "photo id" -- reason: there were a "lot" of counterfeit $100 bills being passed. I declined, returned to the bank that I had just hours before receive the notes from and exchanged them for $20's. Have *very* rarely been willing to take a bill larger than a $20 since.
I'd be happy to see notice of his false arrest suit and subsequent "major award" posted in the same newspaper.
Those older bills show up less and less these days, but due to the decline in the economy I don't feel bad checking the larger ones, if somebody brings me a pile of them. I also check my own before taking them out to spend because...
In Ohio-land, at the "state" stores, I was told if one of my bills ends up being "funny" either there or at a gas station, I can be detained until the police arrive, then questioned vigorously as to why I had it...
As I've not found one at work (knocking on wood...again) I'm not sure what I'd do. Probably tell the person, that's fake, I can't take it. But unless it's a big pile of bills, I don't check them until after they're out of eyesight.
But I do check them because, well, my prints are on them, and if there's an issue, I'd rather resolve it now than later, at a police station.
And it's not that I'm accusing somebody of making money in their bathtub, I'm making sure somebody else didn't get screwed earlier. Especially if someone hands me a pile of bills, the likelihood of one being "funny" increases.
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