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From:Police: Woman Tried to Pass Fake $1M Bill

March 9, 2004, 10:40 AM EST - COVINGTON, Ga. -- A woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse, police said.

A clerk at the store immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said.

Pike then tried to use two gift cards with only $2.32 of value on them to buy the merchandise, but when that didn't work she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!..."she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill".....god damn that has to be the funniest thing I have heard in a long time. :D

Stupid, stupid woman.
 
If this is true, she's probably retarded. This makes her eligible for execution in Georgia.
 
"Alright, out of the gene pool!"

That is hilarious!

I'm still laughing.
 
She can probably be charged with a 1st degree felony or equivalent due to the potential value of the forgery. Hopefully the judge or jury will take pity on her and assess her a punishment based on the amount of merchandise she tried to walk off with (probably a misdemeanor or lesser felony). I don't think it would be just to punish her that much more for simply being shockingly stupid.
 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
--Albert Einstein

Padon me, but would you have change for a million? :D
 
She veered off the Mark Twain plot line. She was supposed to be wearing cheap, ragged clothing so that she would have been visibly poor and she was supposed to say,

"It would be an accommodation to me if you could wait some days for the money. I haven't any small change about me."
 
Can it really be forgery when there is no such thing as a real million dollar bill? Doesn't one have to be attempting to fool someone with something that's an attempted duplicate of something that's real?
 
Holy smoke, where you been, babe?

Lots of folks have been missing you.
 
Brown said:
Holy smoke, where you been, babe?

Lots of folks have been missing you.
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Thanks!
Randfan: I would think that intent would be important in a forgery case. Is the Million dollar special issue common knowledge? I had never heard of it. I do know that they used to make 1000 dollar bills. Plus, did this woman think that Walmart had change available?
 
Denise said:
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Randfan: I would think that intent would be important in a forgery case. Is the Million dollar special issue common knowledge? I had never heard of it. I do know that they used to make 1000 dollar bills. Plus, did this woman think that Walmart had change available?
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I'm not an expert. You can go to jail for joking about bombs in the air port but I really just don't know.

...they are nonnegotiable platinum certificates known as a "One Million Dollar Special Issue." These notes were from a special limited copyrighted art series originally sold by a Canadian firm for $1.00 each as a collectible item. They are not official United States currency notes...
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Somehow I suspect that this whole thing was a joke that was taken way to seriously by the cashier.
 
I wish they had a picture of the fake. I'm curious to see how she tried to fake a million dollar bill, since they don't exist. What did she think one looked like?

I imagine she is not just dumb, but mentally ill in some way. Even dumb people are rational enough to see the flaws in a plan like that.
 
Is the Million dollar special issue common knowledge?

If that's the "bill" she tried to cash, perhaps she really believed it to be currency? Stupid, yes. Fraud, well, not necessarily...

I had never heard of it. I do know that they used to make 1000 dollar bills.

The largest issue bill was of $100,000--printed for one month in the 1930s-- but it was used solely for transfer between the federal reserve banks and the treasury. Not circulated publically.

Until WWII, there were 500, 1000, 5,000 and 10,000 notes made; they were distributed until the 1960s and are still legal tender, but are no longer distributed or produced.

Plus, did this woman think that Walmart had change available?

While, sure--it depends how she wants the change, in $500,000s or in $200,000s...

P.S.

You're trying to spend $1,000,000, is the first place you think of WALL-MART???? Wouldn't, say, Bloomingdale's, or Cartier's, or whatever be a bit more appropriate?
 
Denise said:
Somehow I suspect that this whole thing was a joke that was taken way to seriously by the cashier.
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Happened to me. No, not with a $1,000,000 bill, with a $2 bill, at McDonald's. Just for yucks, I got ten $2 in the bank. I paid for a big Mac (or something similar), which was $3.57 or so, with two $2 bills.

The cashier looked at me strangely, but opened the register. There was no empty slot for $2s between the $1s and the $5s. That confirmed his suspicion that the $2 was a fake. He threathened to call the cops.
 
Hey, at least she didn't try to pass off a trillion dollar bill.

Vending machines don't take those, for some reason. :D
 
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