I bet it was one of those darn kids from Springfield!

/onion on my belt

Yer gottdamn right that's a jailin'

/gottdamn thing has a piture o'that basterd Grant on it
//lucky he wasn't strung up

He got an apology? Sue the balls off of those pigs so they have to patrol on bicycles.

Dear Tennessee,

Thanks for making us look good.

xoxoxo

Kentucky

This one time, at Taco Bell, I tried to pay with a $2 bill....

The man is a genius!

Gasper was told by Horner to take the bill to a bank and have it exchanged for a newer one.

He keeps buying stuff and getting the fiddy back!

Petit_Merdeux: have it exchanged for a newer one.



"I can do that"

Petit_Merdeux: He keeps buying stuff and getting the fiddy back!

Mmkay, but I doubt he got to keep what he tried to purchase at the Quickie Mart.

Jake Havechek: Sue the balls off of those pigs so they have to patrol on bicycles.

I like this answer better. Maybe "false imprisonment" since he was detained without having done anything wrong?

He'll be getting a lot of real $50 bills after the lawsuit.

So was he stripped and given a cavity search after being arrested then?

For, you know, security purposes.

After Lorenzo Gaspar was jailed

Yeah, there's you're problem, friend.

Lorenzo Gaspar should have been white.

He's lucky he didn't tazed for "failing to comply" or some other horseshiat.

How much do you want to bet that "very old" $50 is
/My wife calls people who are in their 50s old.
//She is 28

Lorenzo Gaspar? Sounds brown.

He shouldn't do that.

ambassador_ahab: Jake Havechek: Sue the balls off of those pigs so they have to patrol on bicycles.

I like this answer better. Maybe "false imprisonment" since he was detained without having done anything wrong?

That and malicious prosecution.

What if I don't carry around a farking magic marker that let's me know if my $50 is legit? If I buy a bag of Funyuns and a Yahoo down at the quick stop and my bill doesn't jive, they are hauling my ass off to jail?

KnowEyeInnTeem: How much do you want to bet that "very old" $50 is
/My wife calls people who are in their 50s old.
//She is 28


I bet is!

KnowEyeInnTeem: How much do you want to bet that "very old" $50 is
/My wife calls people who are in their 50s old.
//She is 28

People in their 50's are old

See now? This is why I don't like just tossing people in the clink at the drop of a hat over every little damned thing. He could have been stuffed in there with some violent psychos, beaten to a pulp and possibly raped. If he had a job he probably lost a day of work and made to look like an idiot to his employer.

Over what? A possibly counterfeit bill? And even if it WAS counterfeit how is the average schlub supposed to know the difference. I've had them passed off onto me before and tried to buy stuff without realizing. Should I be thrown in jail for that? Should they not... yanno... investigate a little FIRST.

STOP THROWING EVERYBODY IN F*CKING JAIL!!

As any gambler worth his salt knows, $50 bills are bad luck. Looks like it caught up with the guy.

markie_farkie: Petit_Merdeux: have it exchanged for a newer one.



"I can do that"

The other day a man came in with a wrinkled $50 bill and wanted a crisp new bill so he could stay out of jail. We can handle special requests like that, usually in the same day.

Modern history of the $50 bill (stolen from Wikipedia):

Small size note history

(6.14 × 2.61 in ≅ 156 × 66 mm)
1929: Under series of 1928, all U.S. currency was changed to its current size. All variations of the $50 bill would carry the same portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, same border design on the obverse, and the same reverse with a vignette of the U.S. Capitol. The $50 bill was issued as a Federal Reserve Note with a green seal and serial numbers and as a Gold Certificate with a golden seal and serial numbers.
1933: As an emergency response to the Great Depression, additional money was pumped into the American economy through Federal Reserve Bank Notes issued under series of 1929. This was the only small-sized $50 bill that had a different border design on the obverse. The serial numbers and seal on it were brown.
1934: The redeemable in gold clause was removed from Federal Reserve Notes due to the U.S. withdrawing from the gold standard.
1950: Many minor aspects on the obverse of the $50 Federal Reserve Note were changed. Most noticeably, the treasury seal, gray word FIFTY, and the Federal Reserve Seal were made smaller; also, the Federal Reserve seal had spikes added around it.

Series of 1929 Federal Reserve Bank Note 1966: WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND was removed from the obverse and IN GOD WE TRUST was added to the reverse of the $50 Federal Reserve Note beginning with series 1963 A. Also, the obligation was shortened to its current wording, THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.
1969: The $50 bill began using the new treasury seal with wording in English instead of Latin.
1991: The first new-age anti-counterfeiting measures were introduced under series 1990 with microscopic printing around Grant's portrait and a plastic security strip on the left side of the bill.
October 27, 1997: Major design changes were implemented under series 1996 to further deter counterfeiters. Included were an enlarged and off-center portrait, an enlarged and updated view of the U.S. Capitol on the reverse, a security thread which glows yellow under ultraviolet light, a numeric 50 which shifts color from black to green when tilted, and a watermark of Grant. Also, for those with vision limitations, a large dark 50 was added to the bottom left corner of the reverse. The Federal Reserve seal was also changed to a unified Federal Reserve System seal and an additional prefix letter was added to the beginning of the bill's serial number.
September 28, 2004: A revised design was implemented with the first use of multiple colors since the 1905 $20 Gold Certificate. Around the new border-less portrait of Ulysses Grant appears a subtle, stylized blue and red background image of the American Flag. A small silver-blue star was also added to the lower right of Grant's portrait. All previous series 1996 security features were included, although the color-shifting numeric 50 now shifts from copper to green. The oval border and fine lines surrounding the U.S. Capitol on the reverse have been removed and replaced with sky and clouds. The new design also seems to have the "EURion constellation" on the back to prevent photocopying of the bill.

Let's try to guess how old the bill was. At least pre-1991, maybe pre-1969.

HotWingConspiracy: After Lorenzo Gaspar was jailed

Yeah, there's you're problem, friend.

I hope Lorenzo reads this thread. If you do, Lorenzo, petition the DA or whatever to get the charge and arrest purged from your record. It was a BS situation, but it is now tattooed on your ass until you get the legal system to remove it.

"The front side of the bill was off center and it didn't feel like a normal bill, it did look to be counterfeit," officer Brock Horner said in his report.

So, does it still look to be counterfeit now that you know it isn't?


turned out to be an old, legitimate bill
old legitimate bills wouldn't "check" with a marker
it was determined as "real but very old"

If only there were a way of enumerating just how "old" it really is...


take the bill to a bank and have it exchanged for a newer one.

Fark that. Either it's legal tender or it's not.

I say use it again, see how many times you can get arrested for the same not-a-crime, and sue their commie asses off.

(Judge)Gasper was told by Horner to take the bill to a bank and have it exchanged for a newer one.

Thanks Judge, while you're at it - please thank the local PD for the arrest record.

attorneystrain: If I buy a bag of Funyuns and a Yahoo down at the quick stop and my bill doesn't jive, they are hauling my ass off to jail?

Yes. Did you read TFA? That's exactly what happened.

here to help: STOP THROWING EVERYBODY IN F*CKING JAIL!!

Then how will the Powers That Be achieve their ultimate goal of Total Criminalization of the Entire Human Race?

Well, at least it wasn't a $2 bill at a Taco Bell. I hear they shoot customers who use them on sight.

CSB:

When I was in Junior High, there was a kid who was as dumb as a box of rocks (actually that may be insulting the box of rocks). He took a dollar bill and tried to photo-copy it, using the schools Xerox machine, and wondered why it didn't produce any greenbacks

here to help: See now? This is why I don't like just tossing people in the clink at the drop of a hat over every little damned thing. He could have been stuffed in there with some violent psychos, beaten to a pulp and possibly raped. If he had a job he probably lost a day of work and made to look like an idiot to his employer.

Over what? A possibly counterfeit bill? And even if it WAS counterfeit how is the average schlub supposed to know the difference. I've had them passed off onto me before and tried to buy stuff without realizing. Should I be thrown in jail for that? Should they not... yanno... investigate a little FIRST.

STOP THROWING EVERYBODY IN F*CKING JAIL!!

But then how will we make money building new jails for all the brown people?

Fark Derp Liberals will not appreciate it....but credit the Shelbyville PD for actually investigating...and releasing Gaspar when it was determined that it was not counterfeit

Now, if this was, say, an Angela Corey-State Attorney Buck Tooth BumFark jurisdiction....this guy would be on trial for his life. Fark Derp Liberals favorite prosecutor would have been hero-worshiped if she prosecuted....like they do for the phoney prosecution of George Zimmerman

Pants full of macaroni!!: here to help: STOP THROWING EVERYBODY IN F*CKING JAIL!!

Then how will the Powers That Be achieve their ultimate goal of Total Criminalization of the Entire Human Race?

Eh, you said it better.

Hard to get too upset with the Quickie Mart guy here. He tried a counterfeit test and the bill failed. The cops couldn't immediately authenticate the bill either so they held him until they could. No one did anything strictly wrong.

They went to two banks to verify the legitimacy of the bill? So was the Secret Service agent too busy banging a hooker to come over and do his job or did they just not bother calling the agency that handles these things? And does he now have an arrest record for trying to pay with a legit $50 that's probably better served being sold to a collector?

Just pay with 25 twos like a normal person. Jeez.

I need about three $50s.

Was it one of these?

Trance750: CSB:

When I was in Junior High, there was a kid who was as dumb as a box of rocks (actually that may be insulting the box of rocks). He took a dollar bill and tried to photo-copy it, using the schools Xerox machine, and wondered why it didn't produce any greenbacks

So I heard the first generation vending machines bill acceptors took photocopied bills.

Should see how much a collector would pay for that bill.

attorneystrain: What if I don't carry around a farking magic marker that let's me know if my $50 is legit? If I buy a bag of Funyuns and a Yahoo down at the quick stop and my bill doesn't jive, they are hauling my ass off to jail?

That's only what happens if you're brown. I had a fake $10 once that I got as change from a gas station in some casino town in OK. I tried to spend it in Texas and the cashier used the marker. I was not arrested on the spot. I took it to a bank and handed it over to be turned in to the Secret Service with a report on where I got it.

Fnorgby, etc. ...

/ two mentions already

So did that bill go from being worth $4000 to $50 after they used the counterfeit marker on it?

Even if it were actually fake, that's no reason to believe that he was the one who created the counterfeit. To arrest the guy based on that alone is a massive overreaction.

MorePeasPlease: KnowEyeInnTeem: How much do you want to bet that "very old" $50 is
/My wife calls people who are in their 50s old.
//She is 28


I bet is!

I guess fark does not like the less than sign: How much do you want to bet that the "very old" $50 is less than 15 years old

I wish we could take our police to the bank and have them exchanged for newer ones.

Well, I don't know about y'all, but nothing makes me feel more vindicated (and duly compensated) thatn a big ol' "sorry" from my government!

You don't turn that into a bank, it's worth more than face, even in circ condition. The teller will sell it on ebay if they aren't stupid. I had a friend who would trade out old bills when she was a teller and give them to me for face. I got all sorts of 5's and 10's from the 20's-30's and old coins.

Anyway couldn't they have just got the guys info and checked the bill without arresting him. Also the paper marker test is crap and is easily faked with paper treatments.

Damnit, fgnorby!

/obligatory