Taco Bell manager didn't know what a $2 bill was - clip from The Two Dollar Bill Documentary
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2018
- You may have read this story in a shared e-mail or social media post, but in this clip from The Two Dollar Bill Documentary, get the famous Taco Bell story firsthand from its author. Back in 1995, a cashier and his manager had an interesting transaction when neither knew what a 2 dollar bill was, causing quite a scene with mall security.
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As a security guard I never have been called to settle a dispute like that but people for some reason think we're all dumb and they can't ask us questions. Kind of glad a security handled the situation very professionally in this story.
Employee: "That'll be $1.99."
Man: Here you go.
(hands him a $2.00 bill.)
Employee: "Very funny, but we need real money."
Man: "It is real money."
Employee:
(Tears up $2.00 bill)
"Nope, it's nothing."
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(Later)
Security: $2.00 bills are real.
Employee: Oh thank you for clearing that up.
Man: So you'll take the $2.00 bill?
Employee: What $2.00 Bill?
Man:
(points to the pile of shredded $2.00 pieces)
Employee: "Sir that's ripped, that's not usable. "
Secret Service: According to Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code, which sets out crimes related to coins and currency, anyone who “alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens” coins can face fines or prison time
@@jjman533 that has to do with coins, not dollars. and has to do with modification in a way that can increase a perceived value. there's nothing illegal about destroying money if it won't be used again
@@mvnd5652 Bruh what?
@@mvnd5652 “Coins and CURRENCY” you doofus.
Keep your current job,you suck at writing.
"This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"
And for some odd reason they still just give you that blank 10-second soap opera stare.
You forget: These people are functionally illiterate.
@@closer71 No argument.
Yeah, even counterfeit bills say that.
@@HSRA-hg9gcBINGO!
It amazes me ppl do not know of $2 bills
teufeldritch same
I literally got a 2 dollar bill for losing one of my teeth when I was younger
I got a two dollar bill from a gift for my 3rd birthday have it to this day spend the others I got
I think it's because of the fact that it's rare. It was first used in 1862 until 104 years later in 1966. Then it was used again in 1976 and still used today. It's just that it's old and it's very hard to come by these days. So most people don't come across a $2 bill like any other currency. I actually have a $2 bill with me. I tried to spend on it as part of my Christmas money, but my dad told me to keep it since it's that valuable. I still have it with me today right now. :)
@@jonathansmith8672 you can literally walk into a bank and ask for $2 bills.
I still can't believe the story of the guy that got arrested because both the cashier and police didn't know what a 2 dollar bill was and thought it was fake and arrested him! Secret service was called in and they told them it was real lol I mean I'm 24 and I had a 2 dollar bill when I was like 8 or something
I remember a culvers cashier who didn't know what 1 dollar coins.
I had a cashier at Dollar Tree call up the manager to verify that my dollar coin I was spending was indeed real, and he was only two years younger than me (I'm 36). It's funny because every time I spend $2 bills at Culver's and I wait off to the side for my order, the same kid always whispers to the other cashier, "Hey, he paid with all $2 bills. These things are rare!" And then I see him changing out $1 bills in his wallet for the $2 I spent.
I had a Dairy Queen cashier short out when I handed her a 50 cent coin
There are even worse stories of police being called and people being detained over $2.00 bills.
My injection into the procedure would be to have them call the United States secret service; because it is their job to always investigate every single counterfeit money case.
The events that would follow would be pure comedy for me!!
Say someone unknowingly paid for something using counterfeit money that someone gave/payed them. Are you just screwed when you get arrested even or is there something you can do about it?
Lots of people get detained over real money everyday but it rarely makes the news unless someone sues.
I got arrested for giving my real name and real info to cops but they didn’t believe me.
Spent time in jail but got charges dropped eventually.
I wish i sued but statue of limitations is a year to sue for these charges.
Anyways this stuff happens all the time but lots of people dont have the time or money to get a lawyer.
The secret service dose get called every time someone is arrested for suspected fake money.
You should see them freak when handed a 3 dollar bill .
B Anno lol
That seems queer. 😮
A nearby Dairy Queen made the news a few years ago for taking a "$300" Bill for an order and giving them $290-something back in change.
No $300 bill.
American paper currency come in seven denominations: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. The United States no longer issues bills in larger denominations, such as $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills. But they are still legal tender and may still be in circulation.
Dang you just wanted a taco
That's why they work at Taco Bell
The same thing happened here in Tampa in the late 70s.
Funny thing is, Tampa Bay Downs, a horse track, is not far from the store.
$2 bills are mostly used to place $$2 bets at horse and dog racing tracks.
That's why he's working at Taco Bell ! 😂
Yup!
It's like the 200€ bill, I didn't know it exist and a lot of my friend neither.
I had that problem within the past couple of years but it was not a two-dollar bill.
I was trying to spend a small portrait pre 1995 $10 bill, but the young cashier had never seen a bill that old and kept refusing to take it.
I finally took it to a bank to be inspected and then broken down into smaller bills.
Ah, the glory days with wordstar compatible editors and usenet newsgroups like alt.jokes and such
I love this channel
Australia replaced al $1 and $2 bills with Coins, many years ago
"I gave them the two dolla biill and that's enough for them"
Wanna confuse them even harder? Try giving out a $2 United States Note (they have a red Treasury seal and Monticello on the back instead of a green seal and John Trumbull’s rendition of the Declaration of Independence signing on the back.).
Let's not make them more confused than what they already are! LOL!
This video is hilarious! 😆
I am always amazed.
Recent experience at. mcD when I gave clerk two Kennedy half-dollars. He told me he collected these dollar coins...sigh. I gave him an education.
I was going to share my link for the video on half dollars, but Larry, I know you've seen it! Have you seen the merchandise we have now below our videos? Some cool t-shirts, hoodies, etc.
Honestly tho Kennedy’s aren’t too bad to collect cause there not too much good in a pocket or cup holder. Too damn big imo
2 dollar bill is the Atari of Paper Currency
Not a bad analogy, although Atari was once the hot thing; the $2 bill never was.
How in the hell can you be a manager and not know denominations of American currency
This same thing happened to me at a McDonald’s in the mall. The meal was something like five dollars. I gave them three two dollar bills. The manager called security and when they got there, knowing what a two dollar bill was, he kind of laughed at the manager. “You’re a McDonald’s manager and you don’t know what a two dollar bill is? What, they don’t teach currency at McCollege?”
I actually felt bad for the manager.
Good thing it wasn't a 3 dollar bill
I have never seen a $3 bill. I'm 59 years old
At 1:34, most of these fast food places do not have any real money training. They just assume you know how to count, know what a $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 along with the change, that is it.
I'm surprised the types of bills are not covered in some small chapter in their history/government class about money.
It's that much different today, given the high turnover in staff and the lack of a real education. I am amazed at the number of young people who don't know what an IKE dollar coin is like, or even a Kennedy half-dollar. The latter, however, gets a better reception at the various fast food places I visit. They seem more ready to accept Canadian coins than real USA coins. I've used two dollar bills in many place in NC and have never had an issue, although many view it with interest and probably stash it in their pocket and treat it as a valuable manuscript of sorts. My grandchildren get them as birthday and Christmas gifts. The local bank always has a stash of brand new bills for me at any time. Thank you for your videol
@Larry Hagemann - Agreed. Can't remember how many times I have paid with a Kennedy Half and these young fast food servers think it is foreign or have never heard of Kennedy Halves. Even young bank tellers are not immune to this. Our Public Education System is crap.
Funny you say that because I just had a conversation yesterday with my wife about people question $2 bills but seem to have no issue taking Canadian coins which commonly make it into our currency system.
i have a 2 $ bill and kept it as a collectible because i knew it was pretty "rare". but i'm not american, even if it's not my country money i know it existed LOL
The Punisher not mine either but apparently easy to get at an American bank.
For you you may think it is rare but in America you can get 2 dollar bills from banks
This is strange, When I was in the armed service we were often paid in $2 bills, The reason was to show the local businesses how much money the Navy spent in their city. Also where I live everyone knows about $2 bills, the reason is we have a horse racing track in our city. A purse is often paid out in $2 bills, reason, to place a bet on a horse you can as little as $2. The most common bet made.
Great comment, thanks. Due to our research in making the documentary this channel is based on (amzn.to/2gpRKum), we know all about what you described. But most people still don't know what the heck this bill is. Hopefully this channel will educate & inform.
Haha -some people have brains of mush!
I’m going to try and score some free meals!
I tell this story all the time. This has been the best story about money. I'm now a bartender in New Orleans. I actually searched for this story. Amazing how the mind works. In my recollection, the security told them they should pay for your meal. Is that correct?
I don't know if security suggested it, but the guy definitely did not pay for his meal after this incident.
That’s very sad
Hilarious!
You think that's bad I just went in Taco Bell and ordered and it took an hour and 20 minutes to get my food.
Luckily they came out the second before I started raising heck. They were prioritizing the drive-thru there were only 2 others inside with me.
I pay with two-dollar bills every now and then, but I've never encountered anyone who thought they were flat-out fake. Now, dollar coins are what _really_ throw people off. For some reason, fast food cashiers do not seem to know what Presidential and Sacagawea dollar coins are. I have been questioned about my usage of those types of coins.
What about fifty-cent pieces? We should have done a video on the dollar coins, but went with the halves. czcams.com/video/jNwVi75Nkew/video.html
I didn't know dollar coins where a thing until i got one out the vending machine at meps a month ago
they real i stack em up
so I guess you get free food every time you pay with a $2 bill :) ha ha!!!
I have a two-dollar bill with me and I'm actually saving it instead of spending on it. Because, even though they are real and they do exist, they are very, VERY hard to come by nowadays. That's why the manager or the employee didn't know what a 2-dollar bill was, and that's why I NEVER spend on it. I always keep it with me on my nightstand.
They're not hard to come by at all. Just go to the bank. Not all of them will have them, but even if they don't, if you ask them to order some, you'll have a strap of crisp, sequential bills within a week. There are 1.3 billion of them out there, and many are still stored at the Federal Reserve. They will come out when people ask for them.
Guy is sooooo cute lose his hair to
The mall security knew simply because he's older than they are
Possibly.
The Two Dollar Bill Documentary Hey would they work in a self check out machine?
That guy that was arrested for this at Best Buy should have sued the police. If you do not know if someone has committed a crime, YOU DON'T THROW THEM INTO JAIL!!!! I don't care the cop didn't know about $2 bill, he can just Google it (AND the manager), it's right there on .gov! Do ya think that's a pretty good source, right? And even if they're still suspicion, the cops should've called their supervisor and/or have it authenticated at a bank. It would take 10 min, they're so many and at stone's throw apart. That cop should've been at the very least disciplined for wasting time and putting an innocent person through that.
What would happen if you use a fake $2 bill
So many people don't even think it's real anyway, probably nothing would happen.
All three look like stoners lol. 1965 federal coin act they have to take the money if it a federal note.
CaliforniaCheez again by law they don’t have to accept them any private business only have to accept $1 thru $20 1965 coin act which is federal law
It really boils down to they do not have to accept the bills if you are just buying something - But that is where the "debt" stuff comes in - they have to accept it when you are paying a debt.
Dan Pieniak yes by law they have to accept bills 1$ thru $20 that what the 1965 coin act says
There is a strip club in town that has an atm that dispenses 2$ bills. We could always tell who went to the strip club because they would pay with 2$ bills 😅
Are you in Portland, Oregon? We were. It's where this video was shot: czcams.com/video/ICY4HV80FFY/video.html If not, tell us where you are that the ATM gives out twos!
@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary it's at a club named Victoria's in fayetteville NC
Bruh
manager was likely a college graduate..They dont teach anything useful in college either.. I bought an item for $1.00 and gave the cashier a $15.00 bill...He smiled and gave me two $7.00 bills change...
Same thing happened to me. And thus, 'The Seven Dollar Bill Documentary' CZcams channel was born.
like the GNU NANO clip...
better off dead movie ...paperboy ...$2 dollars
Every story is identical, only have $2 and $50 bills, same story about mall security etc. think bs
It's a real story. Others have done it on CZcams, reading the original text that was published in a magazine, etc. It's also been all over e-mail. Choose to believe it or not, but it's too stupid to make up! Thanks for watching and commenting though.
This is why we go to colllege
another guy tells the exact same story... ON THIS CHANNEL... do you fact check???
1. If you're referring to the video I think you are, that video is not on this channel.
2. The guy in that video is reading the story written by the guy in this video; the story has been passed around over and over and shows up in emails and websites everywhere. So others have simply treated the story as their own.
3. Yes, we fact check. Do you, before making comments like this??
czcams.com/video/tbp-UyLH2ng/video.html … it wasn't this channel. it had autoplayed after one of urs. but story the same
The story is the same because the guy in the other video is TELLING THIS STORY. In our video, you see that the man this happened to went home and wrote it up and it got published and shared. The story is all over the place. The guy in the other video is simply reciting the entire text, so your beef should be with him.
How many different people gonna tell this fake ass story
It's not a fake story. Unlike others here on CZcams who are simply reading the published text, this is the author of that text recounting how it happened and what drove him to write about it. In the full documentary from which this clip is pulled, there is a little more about it.. Don't be so negative, Frank.