from what ive heard, a business has the right to refuse payment that is made with sizeable amount of change (coins). bills should not be lumped into that. its only $114, its not like he was buying a plasma tv or anything

when i worked as a cashier in high school, i remember a customer paying with a nice fat stack of $2 bills. i thought it was a little odd but i would never have thought to use the counterfeit pen on them.

wtf counterfeits $2?? (that are realistic-looking enough to have to use the pen).
while i think both BB and the police over-reacted i guess if the ink did smear it could be suspicious...
but
how much did it smear??
barely? or a lot? im a bit suprised myself, i didnt know the ink on bills could smear. now ive got some experimenting to do

ps they should have arrested the cashier. it is illegal to deface american currency