Stupidity cuts across all races and classes.
Posted on 04/21/2021 9:01:37 AM PDT by Meatspace
In the latest fraud-related news, two women in Tennessee were caught trying to pay for items using a fake $1 million bill earlier this month.
According to WREG Memphis, the incident occurred at a Dollar General store in Maryville, a suburb of Knoxville. The two women reportedly tried using the bill to pay for numerous gift cards, and, when confronted, they claimed they not to have known the bill was fraudulent.
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and they actually thought the DG could break a $1MM bill...
the mind boggles
if stupid was a crime...
Whatever works.
The Golden Ticket. Onto Wonka.
“Sure, we can break a $1 million bill, but we’ll have to give you your change in pennies, plus four rolls of nickels.”
Floyd should have tried this instead of just $20.
I was asking for any half dollars in the till during the Great Recession. I could spot silver ones pretty easily. Kid working the register took out a Franklin half, gave it a good look and said “That’s a funny color.”
Stupidity cuts across all races and classes.
When Malcolm is flabbergasted, you know it’s bad.
Sounds like the cashier could have taken the bill and given her change for $100 and she wouldn’t have known the difference. But the attempted theft was OK, because they were making “care packages for the homeless”.
How can anyone be arrested for intended philanthropy? LOL
Yep...old joke. But instructive...
Guessing they weren’t purchasing toothpaste...
It’s the Amish again... Definitely the Amish!!!
Well, a million dollars now isn’t worth what it was 50 years ago, and the million dollar bill should have been enough to purchase some candy and toilet paper and milk; not much else.
Is she dating Hunter?
Memphis is the skid mark in the underwear of Tennessee.
From his stash?
Just look at Zimbabwe and their $100,000,000,000,000 note. Yes, that's One Hundred Trillion, and it was in circulation in 2008. With it you could buy a loaf of bread.
https://www.superiortitanium.com/100-Trillion.html
Making change from one register at the Dollar General might have been a problem.
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DG couldn’t make change for a million dollar bill if they emptied out the registers of every store in Tennessee. What was the lady attempting to purchase, a pack of chewing gum?
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