They're not arresting people for printing them. They're arresting them for *using* them, attempting (and in one case, succeeding) to pay for goods with this bill.
THAT is using counterfeit money.
Just having the bill? Would be considered laughable.
I personally can't believe that a cashier accepted a $200 bill without running a check-pen over it. Hell, they do that for everything over $20 here!
I guess it's a speed-reading thing. I read so fast that if there are words on something, I don't just think, "Oh, words." I will skim them, and see if anything catches my eye.
I think around about at the "Moral Reserve" part, I'd have been blinking for a manager...
Actually, I remember reading somewhere - I think it was someone passing a $3 bill - that you can't be charged with counterfeiting if the bill in question doesn't exist. I'm hoping to read some follow-up on this.
I remember reading about how some very fake million-dollar bills were in a store window-display. Some poor fool broke in and stole them.
I've got a couple of two-dollar bills. They've tried to produce them on several different occasions, but the public got all pissed off about it every time. There's no slot for them in cash registers, so a lot of stores refused to take them. Gamblers were convinced it was terribly bad luck to even /have/ a two-dollar bill, although the bad luck could be countered by doing various defacing things to the bill.
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BTW, what does it mean when you go:
"Huh, I guess I'll check out
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That poor clueless manager...
And I don't know. I do know I post more than
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THAT is using counterfeit money.
Just having the bill? Would be considered laughable.
I personally can't believe that a cashier accepted a $200 bill without running a check-pen over it. Hell, they do that for everything over $20 here!
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...Or at least, you know, *reading* the bill...
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I think around about at the "Moral Reserve" part, I'd have been blinking for a manager...
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I want to hear more about this, too.
...and I absolutely love that bill. It's priceless.
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I remember reading about how some very fake million-dollar bills were in a store window-display. Some poor fool broke in and stole them.
I've got a couple of two-dollar bills. They've tried to produce them on several different occasions, but the public got all pissed off about it every time. There's no slot for them in cash registers, so a lot of stores refused to take them. Gamblers were convinced it was terribly bad luck to even /have/ a two-dollar bill, although the bad luck could be countered by doing various defacing things to the bill.
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