a sign that we’re all a little nervous
that’s a deep and meaningful insight.
i’ve had a shitty day, really. got quite a curveball this morning. but, nothing compared to Mike Bolesta’s day.
Baltimore Sun, Mar 8, 2005 [unlinked because it’s behind a wall]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.
sure, the internet brings the stupid, but they have to come from somewhere, and that somewhere, sometimes, is your local big-box retailer.
a whole store full of people, presumably people that can read (then again, maybe not, i don’t know what the application process is like for best buy), and they can’t handle $2 bills?
it saddens me. really.