Man arrested for paying in $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.
Finds himself transported to the Baltimore County lockup in
Cockeysville, where he's handcuffed to a pole for three hours while
the U.S. Secret Service is called into the case.
I wonder what will happen if I try it in Singapore.
