Man Arrested For Paying Fees At Best Buy With A $2 Dollar Bill

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Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills
Best Buy customer on being jailed: 'At this point, I'm a mass murderer'



A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency's legitimacy and called police.

According to an account in the Baltimore Sun, 57-year-old Mike Bolesta was shocked to find himself taken to the Baltimore County lockup in Cockeysville, Md., where he was handcuffed to a pole for three hours while the U.S. Secret Service was called to weigh in on the case.

Bolesta told the Sun: "I am 6 feet 5 inches tall, and I felt like 8 inches high. To be handcuffed, to have all those people looking on, to be cuffed to a pole – and to know you haven't done anything wrong. And me, with a brother, Joe, who spent 33 years on the city police force. It was humiliating."

After Best Buy personnel reportedly told Bolesta he would not be charged for the installation of a stereo in his son's car, he received a call from the store saying it was in fact charging him the fee. As a means of protest, Bolesta decided to pay the $114 bill using 57 crisp, new $2 bills.

As the owner of Capital City Student Tours, the Baltimore resident has a hearty supply of the uncommon currency. He often gives the bills to students who take his tours for meal money.

"The kids don't see that many $2 bills, so they think this is the greatest thing in the world," Bolesta says. "They don't want to spend 'em. They want to save 'em. I've been doing this since I started the company. So I'm thinking, 'I'll stage my little comic protest. I'll pay the $114 with $2 bills.'"

Bolesta explained what happened when he presented the bills to the cashier at Best Buy Feb. 20.

"She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I don't want to.' I said, 'If you don't, I'm leaving. I've tried to pay my bill twice. You don't want these bills, you can sue me.' So she took the money – like she's doing me a favor."

Bolesta says the cashier marked each bill with a pen. Other store employees began to gather, a few of them asking, "Are these real?"

"Of course they are," Bolesta said. "They're legal tender."

According to the Sun report, the police arrest report noted one employee noticed some smearing of ink on the bills. That's when the cops were called. One officer reportedly noticed the bills ran in sequential order.

Said Bolesta: "I told them, 'I'm a tour operator. I've got thousands of these bills. I get them from my bank. You got a problem, call the bank.' I'm sitting there in a chair. The store's full of people watching this. All of a sudden, he's standing me up and handcuffing me behind my back, telling me, 'We have to do this until we get it straightened out.'

"Meanwhile, everybody's looking at me. I've lived here 18 years. I'm hoping my kids don't walk in and see this. And I'm saying, 'I can't believe you're doing this. I'm paying with legal American money.'"

Bolesta was taken to the lockup, where he sat handcuffed to a pole and in leg irons while the Secret Service was called.

"At this point," he says, "I'm a mass murderer."

Secret Service agent Leigh Turner eventually arrived and declared the bills legitimate, adding, according to the police report, "Sometimes ink on money can smear."

Commenting on the incident, 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."

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those people never saw a 2 dollar bill b4? he should sue them for everything in that store. damn those employees and the police are dumb.
 

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Steelwill2006 said:
Commenting on the incident, 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."

thats about the dumbest thing he could have said

what a fucking idiot
 

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That's fucked up.... my grandmother used to have a bunch of two dollar bills..
 
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MrAvon_Streetz said:
what the fuck hell 911 gotta do with this so thats the police new excuse
yes. we shot the ******* 50 times because we cant cant be too careful in his post 911 world.


i hate crackers





 

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What does this say about a store manager who doesn't know what a $2 bill looks like? Fuk BestBuy anyway...
 

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MrAvon_Streetz said:
what the fuck hell 911 gotta do with this
absolutely nothing..

it just means that dumb motherfuckers work at bestbuy..

while i myself would question the authenticity of the bills, not cause of 9/11 but because you rarely see them.. having a manager call the custumer or the even the stores bank would have been enough...
 

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Sangria said:
yes. we shot the ******* 50 times because we cant cant be too careful in his post 911 world.


i hate crackers






SO FUCKING FUNNY U KNOW thats exactly what i was thinking u stole the words outta my grill :lol:
 

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Damn after he finish with Best Buy his house is going to be HOOOOOKED UP!!!

:lol:
 

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Maddbaron said:
those people never saw a 2 dollar bill b4?

Not 57 of them all at the same time...I would be a little leery too if I was trying to sell some personal shit and a dude gave me an envelope full of 2 dollar bills...I know he had a reason for having so many but that is not something people see everyday...it was a silly "protest" that backfired on him...
 

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HellBoy said:
Damn after he finish with Best Buy his house is going to be HOOOOOKED UP!!!

:lol:

Thats what i was thinking reading this.. he got a lawsuit.. ready to file by now LMAO!!!
 

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Incarcer8dagain said:
i wonder if best buy will pay out the lawsuit in $2 bills? or with these?

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good luck with that. the govt got rid of those due to rampant money laundering. might have better luck with a 10k euro note.
 

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not too long ago Black people were encouraged to buy with 2 dollar bills during February to show the spending power of our community.

we need to tell our elders to watch out, a new generation of ignorant motherfuckers are behind the cash registers and badges now.
 

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that is sad as hell, I hope he sues the hell out of them. I remember back in my childhood my mom would have $500 dollar bills. Wonder what some retard would do if I had one of them, and tried to take inside a store. gotta go to store with lawyer and secret service agent just to , "legally" buy the new r kelly album lol
 

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if the ink ran, they had reason. that many 2's are rare.
if not for the ink, he can sue best & police
 
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Not 57 of them all at the same time...I would be a little leery too if I was trying to sell some personal shit and a dude gave me an envelope full of 2 dollar bills...I know he had a reason for having so many but that is not something people see everyday...it was a silly "protest" that backfired on him...

Peace

I hear you with what you are saying? but that "silly protest" going get him paid. Not bad enough they detain him, he got arrested also, for really no legal grounds. Plus if they called him and hes a past customer they must have all his contact info and home info. they could have gave the money to fbi w/o alerting him and then fbi would have picked him up. Now best buy def going have a great lawsuit on its hands and maybe even the police dept.

Peace
 

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Stupia ass cashiers.. They don't train them enought these days. They just grab them off the streets and say GET OUR MONEY!! Ole boy should sue Best buy ,the police and give that lil cashier bitch a run for her money also.

"She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I don't want to.' I said, 'If you don't, I'm leaving. I've tried to pay my bill twice. You don't want these bills, you can sue me.' So she took the money – like she's doing me a favor."
 

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Peace

I hear you with what you are saying? but that "silly protest" going get him paid. Not bad enough they detain him, he got arrested also, for really no legal grounds. Plus if they called him and hes a past customer they must have all his contact info and home info. they could have gave the money to fbi w/o alerting him and then fbi would have picked him up. Now best buy def going have a great lawsuit on its hands and maybe even the police dept.

Peace

Just cause someone sues does not mean they will win...he has NO case against Best Buy for calling the police or the police for detaining him...the only "case" he may have is the issue of them possibly reneging on hooking up the car stereo for free...as silly as it may sound they did follow standard procedure for that situation...did they have to go there...no...but they were in their legal rights to do so...I had a shop and all transactions were cash...I tested $1s, $5s, $10s, $20s, $50s, $100s...if someone came up to me with 57 $2 bills you damn right I would test them all cause that is not usual to see I don't care how reasonable his excuse was...and if the ink changed color or in this case smeared it would have been an issue...he wanted to make trouble and he did...the cashier was in her right to call the police...the police justified it by arresting him upon noticing the smeared bill...he has no case against Best Buy except for the issue of the cost of installing the car stereo...and he can't even complain about that because he broke down and made an agreement to pay them when he showed up with 57 $2 bills...I have not seen 57 $2 bills altogether in my lifetime...if I saw someone trying to pass them off to me all at once of course red flags would go up...
 

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Why did he get charged for Installation...if he bought the cd player there its free installation...and if it aint free why is it over 100 dollars. I'dda been like fuck you. Oh well i dont really feel sorry for the guy. He was a cop...he prolly did this type of shit to all kinds of people. I feel sorry for the people who took 3 hours to realize 2 dollar bills are legal. More specifically the one's who raised em...stupid ignoramouses.
 

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As a policeman and opponent of frivolous lawsuits, I say he should :



SUE THE SHIT OUT OF BEST BUT AND THE CITY! FUCKIN RIDICULOUS.
 

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As a policeman and opponent of frivolous lawsuits, I say he should :



SUE THE SHIT OUT OF BEST BUY AND THE CITY! FUCKIN RIDICULOUS.
 
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