A NJ man was arrested for shoplifting and paid his $400 bail with fake money. He later retrund and demanded a $200 refund, stating his bail should have only been $200. He was put back in jail on additional charges of passing fake money.
It would have worked if it had only been $50.
This is why put those little stickers on the tags when they ring you out:
People would go into a store and steal a bunch of clothes only to return a short time later and try to return the stolen merchandise for cash.
Greedy, greedy, greedy.
I can’t even express how dumb this person is. Wow. I’m blown away with how insanely dumb this person is.
And he would have gotten away with it too if it hadn’t been for…himself. And yeah, I do sometimes wonder how all these idjits manage to stay alive.
Pfft, This lady tried to pay at Wal-Mart with a one million dollar bill.
Actually, looking at her, I can believe that she probably thought it was real.
When I worked at the bank, I had a husband and wife pair come in and try to deposit a $1,000 bill. They seemed to honestly think that it was real, and debated with me when I told them it wasn’t. I even pointed out the “not legal tender” statement on it, and they were still adamant that it was worth $1000. My boss got involved… it was a mess. But funny.
Well, there is such a thing as a 1,000 bill, and though a new one hasn’t been issued in about seventy years, it’s never been voided as non-money.
But of course, it sounds like that wasn’t actually what the husband and wife were trying to pass in your case.
ETA: On the flip side, wasn’t there a story here on the SDMB about some Taco Bell manager who threatened to sic the cops on somebody because they were trying to pass a two dollar bill, and he was convinced there was no such thing?
I once had a very brief “discussion” with a female bartender about the three one-dollar coins I used to pay for a drink. This was about a year or two after the Sacajawea dollars were introduced. She had to call over a manager who walked over, merely glanced at them and told her they were real.
The phony million dollar bill bitch? The look on her face in the photo tells me (or makes me assume) that she knew full well what she was doing and tries to pull shit like this all the time in her life.
I used to have a 1 million dollar bill with ?JFK/Regan/Clinton on it. Obviously a joke. While at a bar, a friend went to get change for the ancient, only-takes-quarters juke box. I tossed my milliondollar bill onto the table as my contribution.
Friend went up to bar asking for quarters. The owner/bartender threw us out, screaming that he should call the cops on us “god damn counterfitters”. What are the odds he had 4 million quarters in the register? Especially considering it was a week night.
It’s an unverified urban legend, but still a great story. I can totally see this happening.
A friend of mine always tips with two dollar bills. He claims this makes sure the wait staff remembers him next time. I believe they do, but only as “here’s that joker with the $2 bills again!”
As a proud public defender, this is usually the point in the discussion where we yell out
“Thems our PEOPLE!!!”