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Police: Texas man trying to cash $360 billion check arrested
AP ^ | 05/02/2008

Posted on 05/02/2008 8:25:58 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company.

The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business, authorities said. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious — perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off, according to investigators.

Fuller, of suburban Crowley, was arrested on a forgery charge, police said. He was released after posting $3,750 bail.

Fuller said his girlfriend's mother gave him the check to start a record business, but bank employees who contacted the account's owner said the woman told them she did not give him permission to take or cash the check, according to police.

In addition to forgery, Fuller was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon and possessing marijuana, Fort Worth police Lt. Paul Henderson said.

Officers reported finding less than 2 ounces of marijuana and a .25-caliber handgun and magazine in his pockets, police said.

Fuller couldn't be located for comment by The Associated Press on Friday because there were no phone listings for him in the Fort Worth area.


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What a doofus.

This image taken from video provided Thursday, May 1, 2008 by KXAS-TV in Fort Worth, Texas, shows part of a check written out for $360 billion. Charles Ray Fuller, who said his girlfriend's mother gave him the check, was arrested last week when he tried to cash it at a Fort Worth bank. Fuller said he wanted to start a record business. (AP Photo/KXAS-TV)

1 posted on 05/02/2008 8:25:58 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sure. How would you like that third of a TRILLION dollars?


2 posted on 05/02/2008 8:28:15 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’ll bet a cool 10 Billion this guy is a believer in Black liberation theology.


3 posted on 05/02/2008 8:28:34 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: Responsibility2nd
He should have learned yesterday and not tried again.
4 posted on 05/02/2008 8:28:56 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Do we really want Huma answering the White House phone at 3 AM?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

How stupid.

Everyone knows that any attempt to cash a fake check for any amount over $100 Billion will draw suspicion.


5 posted on 05/02/2008 8:30:18 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Responsibility2nd
He was released after posting $3,750 bail.

Bail was posted with a $3,750 coin.

6 posted on 05/02/2008 8:30:23 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Responsibility2nd
Police: Texas man trying to cash $360 billion check arrested

Arithmetic is for suckers...he thought. Now he'll need a lawyer to read the charges to him...

7 posted on 05/02/2008 8:30:35 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: Responsibility2nd

This number of marks would have bought a loaf of bread in Weimar Germany. Of course that could never happen here....


8 posted on 05/02/2008 8:31:05 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Responsibility2nd

Could this be a brilliant move by the girlfriend’s mom to get this idiot?!?!


9 posted on 05/02/2008 8:32:46 AM PDT by heywoodubuzzoff (:-))
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To: ASA Vet

As you know I just posted this to p!ss you off.

And to say - once again - that Free Republic’s search feature is a joke.


10 posted on 05/02/2008 8:35:15 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Typical White Person)
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To: Responsibility2nd

He should have said he was with the Federal Government. No one would have blinked an eye then.


11 posted on 05/02/2008 8:36:20 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Average White Conservative)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Again? Is this a fad?


12 posted on 05/02/2008 8:38:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Possession of marijuana as well...you don’t think that had anything to do with it, do ya? LOL.


13 posted on 05/02/2008 8:42:13 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Responsibility2nd

Does this mean the $450,000,000 personal check from my brother-in-law is also suspect?


14 posted on 05/02/2008 8:42:48 AM PDT by pabianice
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“Bail was posted with a $3,750 coin. “

Thanks for the good laugh this morning!


16 posted on 05/02/2008 8:47:16 AM PDT by elder5 (Reelect ROSSI '08)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Good one!


17 posted on 05/02/2008 8:50:22 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Responsibility2nd
And to say - once again - that Free Republic’s search feature is a joke.

I've found that it works fine if used as it's designed. For instance, a title search for "billion" turned up the previous story just fine. Rather than searching for the whole title, or by keyword, searching for just one distinctive word in the title (while searching *by* title) usually works quite well.

18 posted on 05/02/2008 8:54:02 AM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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Could this be a brilliant move by the girlfriend’s mom to get this idiot?!?!

Risky. What if the bank had actually cashed it?

19 posted on 05/02/2008 8:55:00 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Holy State or Holy King - Or Holy People's Will - Have no truck with the senseless thing.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
He was released after posting $3,750 bail.

Um, do y'all take a check?

20 posted on 05/02/2008 8:57:23 AM PDT by Living Free in NH
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