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When one is unsure or unequiped to perform a task, they call someone who can. The store probably would have never questioned a thing if the man were not purposly an assh*le. He did it to himself and has no grounds for suit...



Well, Duh! If he wasn't an "assh*le" by paying with $2 bills than there would have been nothing to question at all would there? There's no "probably" about it.

Perhaps he should have just paid with counterfeit 20s. Then he wouldn't have been an "assh*le" because he paid with large bills and they wouldn't have questioned anything. And all would have been well.

You keep saying that he has no grounds for suit because he was an assh*le -- well, last time I checked, being an assh*le didn't preclude one from protection of the law. You can be the biggest prick in the world, but I'll still get charged with Battery for hitting you, no matter how much you 'deserved' it.

What if instead of being an "assh*le" by paying with $2 bills (which I still don't see how that's bad; I've been a cashier before, it was all money to me, I didn't give a damn what it was) he paid with regular ol' 20s. Perfectly legitimate 20s. And the ink smeared as the ink does on most any real bill; it's fake bills that often won't smear at all. Anyone that worked in retail handling money more than a couple days would know that ink smears on legitimate bills. But, the smearing ink freaked out the managers, they called the cops, and they shackled the man to a pole. A man who paid with perfectly legitimate bills and no ill-tidings towards the store at all, but he got shackled to a pole. What if that happened? Would you feel the same way?

What if it was you. You wanted to buy a TV at Best Buy, you went to the bank and got $2000 in 20s. Some of them happened to be sequential. You paid for your TV, but the ink smeared on them, which will happen since they were crisp new 20s. The store led you to the office while they called the police -- no big deal, right? You didn't do anything wrong. But then the police tell you that you're going to have to go to jail. So they handcuff you and lead you through the store so that everyone in town can see -- all of them presuming that you were either shoplifting or counterfeiting. Then, when you get to jail they put you in leg irons, and shackle you to a pole to wait a few hours until the Secret Service shows up to verify what you knew all along -- that your bills were perfectly legitimate and you did nothing wrong. How would you feel about that?

I don't have a particular problem with Best Buy calling the police, although I do think they were being overly zealous in doing so. I don't believe they would have done the same with any other customer. They apparently led the man somewhere and had him sit and wait for the police to arrive -- a responsible and respectable thing to do.

But the actions of the police were despicable. Here was a man that obviously had no intentions of running, he was sitting in a chair in the store, obviously no flight risk and they decide to cuff him and cart him off to jail for no reason whatsoever. I might even buy the fact that they had legitimate cause to take him to jail to wait for the Secret Service. But then, while in jail, they not only leave him cuffed, but the put leg irons on the guy and shackle him to a pole. You shackle dogs to poles, you shackle homicidal maniacs with leg-irons to poles, you don't shackle a guy that you suspect is a counterfeiting two-dollar bills to a friggin' pole. End of Story.

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