Best Buy Customer Arrested for Paying with $2 Bills
Via Gizmodo, a Baltimore man was arrested for paying for a car stereo with all $2 bills.
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.
Christ...I wonder what Best Buy would do if they actually caught somebody doing something legitimately illegitimate!
Here's the Baltimore Sun original story. It is pretty preposterous, and I don't use that word lightly.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?coll=bal-local-columnists&ctrack=1&cset=true
Posted by: Nacho | Apr 07, 2005 at 04:52 PM
WOW! and i thought only bush administration officials would be able to attach a 9/11 reference to a story about a guys paying best buy in $2 bills:
"It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world." -Bill Toohey, spokesman Baltimore County police
Posted by: vinno | Apr 07, 2005 at 05:41 PM
AHHHH...Best Buy....seriously, what would they do if they ever caught me? Our basement wouldent sound too good, especially for submarine movies!
Posted by: shully | Apr 07, 2005 at 06:08 PM
AHHHH...Best Buy....seriously, what would they do if they ever caught me? Our basement wouldent sound too good, especiall for submarine movies!
Posted by: shully | Apr 07, 2005 at 06:08 PM
is shully ever gonna stop double posting? that is the real question....
Posted by: jomo | Apr 08, 2005 at 08:09 AM