Not to get excessively historical about it, but these weren’t snapshots. She had to sit still for minutes on end while the plate was exposed. Most people didn’t try to hold a smile back then.
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Well, given that the bartender was probably a recent immigrant, it’s par for the course. I once had a Queens barmaid tell me in a lovely Irish brogue that she couldn’t take a SB Anthony dollar, “as we only accept American money”.
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Hey, that’s good to know! Thanks! I found some DM notes in the bottom of a drawer that I emptied out a few months back, I was wondering what to do with them!
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Don’t worry, I go enough for the both of us !
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“Winston, there has never been a two dollar bill.”
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I just glared at the handful of people I encountered who paid with $2 bills when I cashiered, because there’s no set place for them in the register drawer 
(couldn’t put 'em beneath the plastic tray, either, 'cause they might get miscounted as a $20; I suspect it’s less likely now that they’ve redesigned the $20, but at the time there were still plenty of the portrait-in-a-frame ones around).
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True, possessing one is illegal. I had received a fake $10 bill once and called the Secret Service. There is even a whole procedure to turn it over so you don’t get in trouble. I was told to put the bill in an envelope marked counterfeit, and go to my bank, where I had an active account. They told me not to produce the bill until I told them I believe I have a fake bill in my possession, and wanted to turn it in. They said if you show the bill first it could be considered to be an attempting to pass it. By announcing it first, you protect yourself.
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The funniest thing about this whole thing is that here in Houston it’s almost a joke to go to sell cans (or stolen copper pipe, or whatever) at C&D Scrap Metal, and they’ll pay you in two dollar bills. Have these people never seen or heard any local advertising spots in the last thirty years?
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it figures a story like that would have even older origins. Naturally, Snopes has the dirt.
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And it’s in Texas. Many of these… Just very stupid people have guns too.
If they can’t be bothered to ever consider they might be wrong about something as minor as whether a $2 bill exists, they have absolutely no business owning a machine for killing animals and people.
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I nonetheless credit her for successfully holding a scowl.
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Also in the story
"And that’s just one of eight counterfeiting charges investigated against high- and middle-school students at Fort Bend ISD since the 2013-2014 school year."
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“Twwo dollah bill?! I haint no queer!” <blam> <blam> (steps up to the 9-year-old girl’s body to aim at head) <blam>
This is not helping you, Texas.
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You know, I’m not really on board with their ideas about economics, either, but they do do a fairly good job with their coverage of egregious abuses of police authority, as in this case, so I think it’s worth judging their articles on a case-by-case basis.
Not a single adult who participated in or observed her persecution had either the knowledge or the moral courage to advocate on her behalf?
Don’t be so sure about that. Do you think this officer would believe he was in the wrong and release a suspect just because some random civilian said so.
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Well, he did come and pester a child confiscate her money and keep her detained, just because a random civilian said so.
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Too sad! Carries me back to the comic who said he was pulled over for speeding by a gigantic State Trooper. The Trooper hands him a pen and paper and drawls, “Now write what I tell ya.”
Jokes aside, salutes to the majority of ladies and gents in blue who serve and protect with distinction. May they never be confused with the asshats in these stories.
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