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(NC) Lexington man charged with making a fake $1 million bill and trying to spend it
Winston Salem Journal ^ | December 31, 2011 | JOHN HINTON

Posted on 12/31/2011 6:34:29 PM PST by markomalley

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To: markomalley

If there ever was to be a 1,000,000 dollar bill, it should have Obamas face on the front, and a picture of Pebble Beach on the back.


21 posted on 12/31/2011 7:14:52 PM PST by bigbob
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If there ever was to be a 1,000,000 dollar bill, it should have Obamas face on the front, and a picture of Pebble Beach on the back.

Nah, that's the $3 bill.

22 posted on 12/31/2011 7:16:57 PM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: bigbob

With a $10,000,000 Zimbabwean dollar bill, you could make a down payment on a pack of gum.


23 posted on 12/31/2011 7:21:28 PM PST by Ax
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To: markomalley
Nah, that's the $3 bill.

Bill Clinton is on my $3 bill.

24 posted on 12/31/2011 7:25:25 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: markomalley

LOL! And I thought this was a fake news story on New Years Eve to get some laughs :).


25 posted on 12/31/2011 7:27:53 PM PST by MCH
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To: markomalley

Did he REALLY think they were going to hand him $999,426 in change out of the till?


26 posted on 12/31/2011 7:44:15 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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Did he REALLY think they were going to hand him $999,426 in change out of the till?

Especially at Wally World...

Nobody said criminals were smart.

27 posted on 12/31/2011 7:51:52 PM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: wolfpat

Interesting thanks


28 posted on 12/31/2011 7:55:11 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: WriteOn

Yes, an idiot. But at least maybe we should give him some credit for thinking big.


29 posted on 12/31/2011 7:56:40 PM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: markomalley

Part of the 99% trying to be 1%.


30 posted on 12/31/2011 7:58:23 PM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA: Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: Lockbar

Yes, enterpreneurs think big and take big risks. His next venture might just succeed! Bravo!


31 posted on 12/31/2011 8:02:16 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: markomalley

Guys like this with fake $1,000,000 bills make it awfully tough for those of us with real ones.


32 posted on 12/31/2011 8:02:17 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: markomalley

I was pretty sure I was spelling it rong but went ahead and typed it that way anyway.


33 posted on 12/31/2011 8:04:20 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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To: markomalley

You oughta see the rackets when tourists from one country discover that their country’s worthless coins work on another country’s vending machines that return change!


34 posted on 12/31/2011 8:05:28 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Ax

Funny-

From the huffington post- 2008-

“Amid Zimbabwe’s mind-boggling hyper inflation, a new 100 billion dollar bank note has more value as a novelty item on eBay than on the streets of the capital.

The note, launched this week, is worth enough to buy a loaf of bread - if you can find one on Zimbabwe’s depleted store shelves. Meanwhile on eBay, the bill was on offer for nearly US$80.”


35 posted on 12/31/2011 8:20:01 PM PST by mj1234
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(NC) Lexington man charged with making a fake $1 million bill and trying to spend it

I always said if I was going to get in a scrap, it would not be over $476, it would be over a million, but I never thought anyone would be stupid enough to try it.

36 posted on 12/31/2011 8:25:53 PM PST by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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To: mj1234

Yet another victory for socialism in the Weimar Republic, I mean Zimbabwe. And I no longer will refer to that once great country as Zimbabwe but by its successful name, Rhodesia.


37 posted on 12/31/2011 8:46:06 PM PST by Ax
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To: markomalley

This guy wasn’t doing anything different than the Federal Reserve Bank.
Quantitative easing on a very direct level— print your own cash. Now, there’s an idea for a test case— and surprised Secret Service hasn’t been called in on the uh, counterfeit bill submitted.

If the guy gets a good attorney, the point could be made that “uttering” only occurs if the payee knowingly accepts the payment as legal tender (if the payee accepts it as payment— it IS payment). Could be interesting, but somehow I think this is just some dumb idiot, thinking he’s very clever.


38 posted on 12/31/2011 9:12:14 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Sacajaweau

My post asked along the same lines. He could hardly “forge” what doesn’t exist.

On the other hand, what idiot would think a single wal-mart would have change on hand of $999,524.00? This will end up with the guy being evaluated mentally. They didn’t have to arrest him- should have just refused to let him take the items.

Did read somewhere that color copiers have a chip in them that will not let someone color copy any US bill, and it shuts down the copier.

Course the day may come when we will need big bills to pay what used to be little bills. Inflation- taxation without representation. Deo Vindice.


39 posted on 12/31/2011 9:22:34 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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"And I no longer will refer to that once great country as Zimbabwe but by its successful name, Rhodesia."

Yes, but it's SOOO diverse and multicultural now- Oh, wait....

40 posted on 12/31/2011 9:33:22 PM PST by matthew fuller ("If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." Winston Churchill)
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