The Man in Slippers with the Little White Dog Passed a Real $2 Bill

The clerk at the Mobil gas station downtown looked at the $2 bill that the man in slippers with the little white dog had given her and it seemed phony. She was sure enough that she called in police.

It seemed phony to New Canaan police, as well. That may have been because, according to a town police spokeswoman, the man who bought chewing tobacco with it had taken scissors and cut it out of a sheet on which a number of $2 bills had been printed.

But the sheet had been printed by the U.S. Mint and sold that way as official U.S. currency.

It had been a gift from his father years ago, but by Nov. 2, the man decided he’d rather have tobacco, so he used one of the $2 bills for just that (along with a $5 bill).

A bank later told New Canaan police they would have no problem accepting the bill as U.S. currency.

As a side note, at one point after the man in slippers had been identified, a police officer asked New Canaan Animal Control Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt if she recognized the little white dog seen in a video surveillance photo with the man in slippers.

Out of all the dogs in New Canaan, she recognized the dog immediately and was able to name it.