Fake $1 billion Federal Reserve notes found in SoCal apartment

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/14/06 | AP

[Sir Gawain]

How can it be a fake if the original never existed?

[goldstategop]

A counterfeit billionaire.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[ChadGore]

You only have to spend it once.

[Hank Rearden]

How can it be a fake if the original never existed?

Exactly. It's "art". Anybody stupid enough to accept them as real is too damn stupid to possess real currency.

[BossLady]

"Uhhh...I need change for a billion please......"

[TexasTransplant]

Does it have a picture of Hildebeast on one side and Soros on the reverse? (If it doesn't it's a fake, I have a wallet full of them but have yet to find a Convenience Store that can make change)

[Lion in Winter]

Oh, no... he just had to get greedy.. 100's were just toooooo small for him. Serves him right, greedy monster.

[digger48]

It's a damn good thing FDR didn't have 250 Billion he could get his hands on in 1934

[Smokin' Joe]

Sure, you want that in 20 million dollar bills or 5million dollar bills...?

[caryatid]

Anybody stupid enough to accept them as real is too damn stupid to possess real currency.

HR, my first thought was ... where on earth do you expect to find someone who can make change ... LOL

[decal]

"I met a man who claimed he was a billionnaire.

"I said,'Oh, yeah? Prove it.'

"He pulled out two half-billion dollar bills out of his wallet.

"They had pictures of Bert Convy on them."


Stephen Wright

[GLDNGUN]

How can it be a fake if the original never existed?

How can this whole idiotic story be true? Arresting a guy for a $1B note? ROFL. What they should have done is let keep it and try to pass it. See if anyone takes it and gives him change. THAT is the moron that should be arrested.

[wolfpat]

This is similar to the bad counterfeiters who accidentally made $18 bills. Figuring that people in the south were not too bright, they came to a country store here in Siler City to pass them.
"Hey pal," one of them asked, "Can you change an $18?"
"Sure," came the reply. "How do you want it? Two nines, or three sixes?"

[speedy]

I gave my brother-in-law a check for $100 million on his birthday once, just to see if he would be enough of an ass to try to cash it. For a split second, he looked like he had just hit the lottery, then he just set it on fire.

[beezdotcom]

I hope nobody arrests me...I have a green piece of paper that say "One kajillion bazillion dollars." (Interestingly enough, it has Hillary's picture on it.)

[Petronski]

With a plan like that, he might have stolen eleventy BILLION dollars!

[1rudeboy]

You're lucky he didn't have you arrested for passing a bogus check. [smirk]

[going hot]

even if you wanted to make change, where would you put it? or carry it?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

One Billion dollars!