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Hungrywolf

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"200 dollar bill" , posted Sun 21 Sep 15:35

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Someone was really, really stupid.

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"Re(1):200 dollar bill" , posted Sun 21 Sep 17:54

quote:
Link Here

Someone was really, really stupid.

Could you please post the article?
I don't have AOL access and it doesn't allow people without it to read the article.
Thanks.

Hungrywolf

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"Re(2):200 dollar bill" , posted Sun 21 Sep 18:06

quote:
Link Here

Someone was really, really stupid.

Could you please post the article?
I don't have AOL access and it doesn't allow people without it to read the article.
Thanks.

Sorry, thought it was a regular webpage. Here ya go.

Updated: 05:23 PM EDT
A $200 Bill With the Face of George W. Bush?
The Associated Press

Roanoke Rapids Police Dept.

ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. - Police are searching for a man who paid for $150 in groceries at a Food Lion grocery store with a $200 bill.

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The man walked out of the store with his groceries and $50 in change before the fake bill was discovered Sept. 6.

The bogus bill - the U.S. Mint does not print a $200 bill - bore the image of President George W. Bush on the front and had the White House on the back. It also included signs on the front lawn of the front lawn of the White House with slogans such as "We like broccoli" and "USA deserves a tax cut," Roanoke Rapids police said.

Instead of being labeled a Federal Reserve note, the fake bill was marked as a "Moral Reserve Note." The bill bore the signatures of Ronald Reagan, political mentor, and George H.W. Bush, campaign adviser and mentor.

Officials at the local Food Lion had no comment. Food Lion officials at the company headquarters in Salisbury could only say their normal policy is not to accept bills over $100.

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Radish

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"Re(3):200 dollar bill" , posted Sun 21 Sep 19:25

The saddest part of this is someone did it before. A guy went to a Dairy Queen with a fake $200 bill with Clinton on it, bought a Blizzard and walked away with $197 in change.

They couldn't prosecute the guy because the quality of the bill was so poor it didn't count as counterfeit.

Undead Fred

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"Re(4):200 dollar bill" , posted Sun 21 Sep 22:41

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The saddest part of this is someone did it before.

No, the saddest part was that someone was stupid enough to accept it. I mean seriously, how dumb are these people??? Personally, even if the bill looked real, I'd at LEAST get a manager to look at it... that money out of your register can cost you your job.

But at least it's not like they're losing a GOOD job...

THAT'S DANNY. His hometown is New Orleans.

Radish

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"Re(5):200 dollar bill" , posted Mon 22 Sep 06:48

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The saddest part of this is someone did it before.No, the saddest part was that someone was stupid enough to accept it. I mean seriously, how dumb are these people??? Personally, even if the bill looked real, I'd at LEAST get a manager to look at it... that money out of your register can cost you your job.

But at least it's not like they're losing a GOOD job...

Well, yeah I meant that it was sad that more than one person was stupid enough to accept an obviously phoney $200 bill.

I remember reading a story that was the exact opposite of this where a guy tried to but some food from Taco Bell with a $2 bill and the guy at the register and the manager both thought it was fake. The security guard working shift had to tell them it was real.

Hungrywolf

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"Re(6):200 dollar bill" , posted Mon 22 Sep 10:47

quote:
The saddest part of this is someone did it before.No, the saddest part was that someone was stupid enough to accept it. I mean seriously, how dumb are these people??? Personally, even if the bill looked real, I'd at LEAST get a manager to look at it... that money out of your register can cost you your job.

But at least it's not like they're losing a GOOD job...

Well, yeah I meant that it was sad that more than one person was stupid enough to accept an obviously phoney $200 bill.

I remember reading a story that was the exact opposite of this where a guy tried to but some food from Taco Bell with a $2 bill and the guy at the register and the manager both thought it was fake. The security guard working shift had to tell them it was real.

Ha! I have some 2 dollar bills somewhere, I'm gonna need to use 'em.

"You're good

baby

I'll give you that.....but me? I'm magic!"
-Bullseye

Daredevil movie
Hungry Like the Wolf

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"Re(7):200 dollar bill" , posted Mon 22 Sep 11:57

Both of those stories are hilarious.
I find it hard to imagine that someone would accept a $200 bill, especially since I can't name a country off the top of my head that actually produces something like that.

As for $2 bills, I would save them as collector items. The now extinct $2 Canadian bill is worth more than $2 if you got one from the mint just before they went out of production.
Only worth more than $2 if it hasn't been circulated. The circulated ones aren't accepted anymore, but you probably could get a few bucks for them online nowadays.