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Andrew
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Idiot Alert: Fake $1,000,000 bill at Wal-Mart! |
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quote:
Police: Woman Tried to Pass Fake $1M Bill
By Associated Press
March 9, 2004, 10:40 AM EST
COVINGTON, Ga. -- A woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse, police said.
The United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but people can buy souvenirs of such a bill at some stores, police said.
"It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," Covington Police Chief Stacey Cotton said Tuesday. "People do crazy things all the time. I think it's just another example of some odd things that occur."
A clerk at the store immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said.
Pike then tried to use two gift cards with only $2.32 of value on them to buy the merchandise, but when that didn't work she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.
Pike, of Porterdale, was charged with forgery. There was no listing for her phone number in directory assistance, and she could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-million-dollar-bill,0,1281415,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
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Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:13 pm |
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Regent
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Wow. |
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One E-word: LoL.
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Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:06 pm |
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Andrew
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Clerk: "How would you like your change Ma'am?"
Alice: "Oh, just make it 49916 twentys and keep the change!"
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Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:12 pm |
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Euler
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Rule number two of the counterfeiter's handbook |
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Rule number two of the counterfeiter's handbook: Make doubly certain that the document you are forging actually exists.
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Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:50 pm |
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Regent
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LoL. |
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LoL. Sorry, but to my age group we find stupidity overly-amusing.
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Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:11 pm |
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Mark
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Can't be serious |
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I work in retail, and this would never happen. I run a 35 million dollar store and the only counterfiet money we get is $100 and under
This is insane
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Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:42 am |
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xboxundone
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That is just to Funny as 1Million dollar bills are not made i think the highest they produce right now is a 1000
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Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:41 pm |
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Euler
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Revisiting this - I don't understand why the police needed to be involved. There was no forgery. The whole incident was laughably pitiful.
And if any clerk ever got taken, they would of course call upon the assistance of someone to help them "make change for a million" - some manager who should immediately know better.
And if an organization didn't catch it? Well, it's not the Feds job to insulate a merchant from the stupidity of its employees. Or is it?
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Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:20 pm |
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Andrew
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Yeah, the forgery part doesn't make sense, although I wouldn't be surprised if it was illegal to present materials as if they were legal tender.
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Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:21 pm |
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Euler
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Yeah I wouldn't be surprised either. It shouldn't be.
We don't need a law to help unmoney not be money. We just... don't er something.
I happen to believe the market could regulate itself swimmingly in this area.
"They paid in popsicle sticks again!!?
*shakes sticks at the sky*
Why, there oughta be a law!"
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Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:06 pm |
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xboxundone
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quote: Originally posted by Andrew Yeah, the forgery part doesn't make sense, although I wouldn't be surprised if it was illegal to present materials as if they were legal tender.
I think that is the issue
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Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:39 am |
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