Journal WIAKywbfatw's Journal: Serious Pocket Change? 6
This story courtesy of BBC News.
US woman shops with fake $1m bill
A US woman has been charged with forgery after trying to use a fake $1 million bill at a supermarket.
Alice Pike, 35, pulled out the note at a Georgia Wal-Mart store to pay for $1,672 worth of goods and asked for change, police said.
The cashier immediately noticed the bill - bearing the picture of the Statue of Liberty - was fake and called her manager who alerted the police.
The US Treasury does not make $1m bills, which only go as high as $100.
In 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System discontinued banknotes in denominations of $500, $1,000 and $10,000 due to lack of use.
"This is the first time in my law enforcement career I've seen someone trying to use a $1 million bill," local police chief Almond Turner was quoted as saying by the Houston Chronicle newspaper.
"It was green, but you could tell it was not a real bill," Mr Turner added.
Ms Pike had three of the $1m bills when she was arrested at the store in Covington on Tuesday, police said.
Mr Turner said she claimed she got the bills from her husband
A fistful of these and you could buy a country! Perhaps we should be sending them to Nigerian 419 scammers and other spammers?
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She doesn't have the brain power to A) realize there's no such thing as a million dollar bill, and B) hey I got all this money, I'm goin to Wally World!
Sheesh.
This is news of the incredibly stupid.
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I think she doesn't (didn't?) quite realize exactly how much a million dollars is.
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If she was smart she would have told the cashier that they could keep the change ;)
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