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Lunchroom Lunacy: Cops investigate $2 bill spent on school lunch
Lunchroom Lunacy: Cops investigate $2 bill spent on school lunch
Ted Oberg and Trent Seibert
Saturday, April 30, 2016
HOUSTON --
When you think of felony forgery your thoughts might turn to Al Capone or Bonnie and Clyde shooting it out with the Texas Rangers. ... Not for some local school cops. For one day, public enemy number one when it came to forgery was 13-year-old eighth grader Danesiah Neal at Fort Bend Independent School District's Christa McAuliffe Middle School.
Now 14, Daneisha was hoping to eat that day's lunch of chicken tenders with her classmates using a $2 bill given to her by her grandmother when she was stopped by the long arm of the law.
"I went to the lunch line and they said my $2 bill was fake," Danesiah told Ted Oberg Investigates. "They gave it to the police. Then they sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big trouble."
....
Finally, the mystery was solved: The $2 bill wasn't a fake at all. It was real. ... The bill so old, dating back to 1953, the school's counterfeit pen didn't work on it.
Ted Oberg and Trent Seibert
Saturday, April 30, 2016
HOUSTON --
When you think of felony forgery your thoughts might turn to Al Capone or Bonnie and Clyde shooting it out with the Texas Rangers. ... Not for some local school cops. For one day, public enemy number one when it came to forgery was 13-year-old eighth grader Danesiah Neal at Fort Bend Independent School District's Christa McAuliffe Middle School.
Now 14, Daneisha was hoping to eat that day's lunch of chicken tenders with her classmates using a $2 bill given to her by her grandmother when she was stopped by the long arm of the law.
"I went to the lunch line and they said my $2 bill was fake," Danesiah told Ted Oberg Investigates. "They gave it to the police. Then they sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big trouble."
....
Finally, the mystery was solved: The $2 bill wasn't a fake at all. It was real. ... The bill so old, dating back to 1953, the school's counterfeit pen didn't work on it.
1953? She should have kept it. I guess she did end up keeping it.
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Little Girl Detained By Police After Trying to Buy School Lunch with Real $2 Bill
She did nothing wrong. But even if she had, a chicken nugget scam is not a matter for the cops.
Robby Soave|May. 4, 2016 2:45 pm
Screen shot via ABC 13
She did nothing wrong. But even if she had, a chicken nugget scam is not a matter for the cops.
Robby Soave|May. 4, 2016 2:45 pm
Screen shot via ABC 13
When I first moved to Canada, I was utterly baffled by loonies and toonies. Of course I knew about dollar coins from the States, but $2 coins?! That's just crazy talk! It took a little while for me to adjust to that reality when getting change back from a cash purchase.
I do still give the wife a hard time about Canadian "Monopoly money" though. 
ETA: Responding to this two-month-old post because someone in a LBN thread linked to it, just to clarify...
