Those of you BB regulars who are familiar with my generally optimistic view of human nature and predisposition to give others the benefit of the doubt will understand where I’m coming from when I say f—k each and every adult who played a role in advancing this situation, especially those who knew better and said nothing.
I can’t wait for the day when Danesiah Neal and others of the Galvanized Generation are eligible to run for office.
Technically they are illegal to own and have to be turned over for destruction.
I…er someone i know…used to do this all the time in highschool. before photocopiers had anti currency measures and when the vending machines just shown a light through a plate to verify the bill. it used to work. it might still work in really old machines. most new machines it is a no go. …or so i’ve heard from my…er…friend.
A few years ago there was a post on Fark that became internet legendary - an apocryphal account of a man trying to use a $2 bill at Taco Bell. As the story goes, the restaurant calls the cops, but in this tale, the cops actually back up the consumer, confirming that a Jeffrey actually is legal tender. I guess truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Isn’t it also a gold note? as denoted by the red seal?
i have always been told:
red seal = gold note (backed by gold)
blue seal = silver note (backed by silver)
green seal = not backed by anything.
is this not correct?
Fun fact: The million dollar bill guy was arrested, but the prosecutor dropped the charges because there’s no such thing as a real million dollar bill, so creating one isn’t counterfeiting
If she’s in trouble its for snooping around grandma’s house and finding an old $2 bill. That’s one of the older bills with the red seal. For some reason my parents had me save several $2 bills. I have several in my bank at home. But I only have one with the red seal.
Every year or so we get some news story of someone not realizing $2 are real. You would think everyone would know by now.
Oh dear. Looks like you failed reading comprehension. Back to the eighth grade for you. The word “teacher” does not appear in the original article nor in Mr. Frauenfelder’s summary.
So, congratulations to you personally for seeding distrust in teachers.
A healthy democracy is based on the citizenry having a reasonable healthy distrust of all levels of government. That distrust breeds diligence and oversight.
Without that distrust … without that diligence … without that oversight … young girls of color get unconstitutionally detained when they try to buy lunch.
Thanks for FTFM.
I don’t think so. OLD gold notes I think are red, but they made red seals that were Legal Tender Notes:
I used to go to the bank and specifcally ask for old bills, in order to spend them. A $2 bill as a tip at a bar got me more attention than the people leaving 5s and 10s.
I gave it up, though, after a clerk swiped my ancient $5 with an anti-counterfeit pen, and declared the bill to be fake and should be confiscated. I pointed out the pen only worked on currency post 1962 (or whenever) and the bill was from 1960, but he insisted it was fake, and would only give it back when I demanded a receipt.
I paid with other more-modern currency, and sadly gave up the habit.
::LE SIGH::
Gold certificates have orange seals.
Unfortunately (for my sense of presentation), there’s no Ten Dollar United States Note.
Here’s a 5 buck version.
note that the metal is not specified. You could demand a federal reserve note, I suppose.
Oh I see, this story is from reason.com (“FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS™”). Okay, I’ll fall in line and respond appropriately:
Nanny state! Nanny state!! Government baadddd!!! Freedom Gooodddd!!!
(There now, I hope the Koch brothers’ Siamese smile got even bigger.)
I was going to say, the Silver certificates all say it somewhere. I have never seen a gold one in the wild.
The bill in the picture is from circa 1960. Anything post 1950ish is generally very common (with respect to conductibility, at least). Given the condition it’s in, it’s worth two dollars. Maybe three. How much effort that extra dollar is worth varies from person to person, I’m sure, but likely not by much. An uncirculated bill from the same year might be worth 8 or 10 bucks.
Upon closer inspection of the original article, I see that it’s actually a screed against “public schools.” In fact, this one gets labeled as such in the very first line, and then more prominently here:
This may seem like a small, silly story, but the grandmother has it exactly right: public schools overwhelmingly assume that children’s misdeeds represent criminal wrongdoing and should be referred to the police. If little Danesiah had actually been attempting to pass off a fake $2 bill as legal tender, it was the school’s job to discipline her, not a matter for the police. And yet law enforcement is routinely brought in to handle the most trivial behavioral disputes in public schools.
That’s right, these idiots who overreacted to the sight of a $2 bill supposedly did so because they work for public schools. So I guess if those idiots were instead working for a profit-driven charter school, this wouldn’t have happened? Mmm hmm, riiiiiight.
Reason.com is a propaganda outlet for free-market fundamentalists. Sucks how effective it is at ensnaring people who otherwise seem able to see through plutocratic agendas.
Congratulations to you as well for your success in pedantry. May your self esteem be ever propped up by it.
Yeah, this kind of overreaction is pretty rare. I regularly carry and spend $2 bills. The most common reaction by far (among those places that haven’t gotten used to seeing them from me) is either “I’ve never seen one of these” or “I haven’t seen one of these in a long time”
I have had people having to “ask the manager” or ask another employee or whatever - typically about 5-20 percent of my interactions, especially among yonger people. But I’ve never had anyone refuse or argue about it
Surely the body mod community ought to have an answer for this by now?
Really, autocorrect? I mean, REALLY? “Conductibility”?
