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"Man Successfully Used a $200 bill Posted: Jun. 1, 2007 10:55 a.m. Updated: Aug. 6, 2007 2:26 a.m. HALIFAX COUNTY: North Carolina cops are searching for a guy who successfully passed a $200 bill bearing George W. Bush's portrait and a drawing of the White House complete with lawn signs reading "We like ice cream" and "USA deserves a tax cut." The phony Bush bill was presented to a cashier at a Food Lion in Roanoke Rapids on September 6 by an unidentified male who was seeking to pay for $150 in groceries. Remarkably, the cashier accepted the counterfeit note and gave the man $50 change. In a separate incident involving a different perp, Roanoke Rapids cops Tuesday arrested Michael Harris, 24, for attempting last month to pass an identical $200 Bush bill at a convenience store. * Print Friendly * E-mail Story "

I dont think the guy should get in trouble. arrest the cashier for being that stupid.
I really wish i could have been there to here the convo with the manager as they were cashing
their drawer out and that bill came up.

9/21/2008 3:36:51 AM

Please tell me that is not on the national news.

9/21/2008 3:49:47 AM

I LOLed

9/21/2008 4:11:26 AM

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9/21/2008 4:14:49 AM

my band got stranded one time for 24 hours in roanoke rapids when our van broke down. let's just say next time we have to drive through there for a show we're getting a tuneup first

9/21/2008 4:20:41 AM

they don't refer to that town as Redneck Crappage for nothing.

9/21/2008 8:37:43 AM

We had someone at our toy store accept $200 in Canadian bills once.

9/21/2008 8:41:10 AM

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"arrest the cashier for being that stupid."

9/21/2008 8:48:19 AM

Food Lion Manager: "Heriberto (or Shequetah) please come to the office . . ."

9/21/2008 8:53:26 AM

lol. what an idiot cashier.

9/21/2008 8:55:05 AM

on the flipside, i've had a cashier refuse to take a $2 bill, claiming it was counterfeit. although counterfeit was probably too many syllables for her, so i'm sure she said fake.

anyway, the manager happened to be nearby and overheard it, chewed her out for being an idiot, and they took my $2 bill.

9/21/2008 9:27:18 AM

^^^

how in the hell do you figure that, dumbass?

9/21/2008 10:09:57 AM

You would not believe the retarded people who work as cashiers sometimes

Can't really blame the man for trying and then getting away with it. I don't know how he didn't bust out laughing for the remainder of the transaction.

9/21/2008 10:26:01 AM

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" Posted: Jun. 1, 2007 10:55 a.m."

Pretty sure we had a thread about this last summer.

9/21/2008 10:31:42 AM

This doesn't suprise me, the cashiers at the Food Lion I go to barely speak english. And the ones that do are definitely slow

9/21/2008 10:39:58 AM

this would've never happened at harris teeter.

9/21/2008 10:41:32 AM

I want a 2$ bill I've never seen one

9/21/2008 10:49:21 AM

I LOVE getting $2 bills and $1 coins as change from the Post Office. It's always awesome to spend them at a convenient store and watch the cashiers get all confused.

9/21/2008 10:51:59 AM

^^can't you just go to the bank and request some $2 bills?

9/21/2008 10:55:13 AM

Yes, this was national news, and it's happened once before in Roanoke Rapids, too, during my Junior year of HS. There was a rumor that the cashier then was a chick that graduated with me. And she wasn't foreign... she was actually in half of my AP classes, although I'm not really sure how the hell she got in.

I didn't hear about it happening again last year... but then again, my parents don't tell me much about dumbass things at home, because Dad wants me to STOP hating that town so much. (Never gonna happen)

[Edited on September 21, 2008 at 11:02 AM. Reason : ]

9/21/2008 11:00:08 AM

$2 bills are cool.

9/21/2008 11:07:37 AM

My husband has a small army of $2 bills that he framed and refuses to use. How am I supposed to work that into my decor?

9/21/2008 12:24:53 PM

I don't see why this is illegal.

It's not really counterfeiting...the bill is obviously fake to anyone who looked at it, so if the cashier chose to accept it, why should the customer be penalized?

9/21/2008 12:26:20 PM

leavin these fake bills as tips isnt illegal is it?

9/21/2008 12:33:47 PM

minimum wage workers of Roanoke Rapids ftl

9/21/2008 12:34:13 PM

when I was a cashier in high school, the people I worked with always took pride in being able to spot phony bills. When you're handling money all day, it's pretty easy to tell the difference in texture between a real and fake bill. We saw counterfeit money way more often than most places, so that might've helped

9/21/2008 12:34:17 PM

What about 50 cent coins? I have only seen one of those my entire life, when I was working as a cashier in high school. Those things are huge.

So does anyone know why some bills are so less common than others like that?

9/21/2008 12:46:49 PM

o wait they still make them

Production of the note is quite low; approximately 1% of all notes currently produced are $2 bills.

[Edited on September 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM. Reason : w]

9/21/2008 12:48:04 PM

Oh okay I didn't know that they stopped making them. I thought they only started making $2 bills in like the mid 90s anyway?

9/21/2008 12:48:48 PM

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"When you're handling money all day, it's pretty easy to tell the difference in texture between a real and fake bill."

i think that's basically how they train bank employees to spot it.

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"What about 50 cent coins? I have only seen one of those my entire life, when I was working as a cashier in high school. Those things are huge. "

really? they're not that uncommon.

9/21/2008 12:49:24 PM

I used to get 50 cent coins from the tooth fairy, that's the only time I've seen them

9/21/2008 12:51:22 PM

haha I used to get a bunch of 50c pieces for Christmas from a relative, like they were collectors items since they're so rare in the wild

9/21/2008 4:31:22 PM

^I was given $1 coins

9/21/2008 4:57:48 PM

i have a bicentennial 50 cent piece

9/21/2008 4:59:53 PM

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"My husband has a small army of $2 bills that he framed and refuses to use. How am I supposed to work that into my decor?"

As wallpaper, what else?

9/21/2008 5:00:05 PM

wow. el stupido

9/21/2008 5:01:00 PM

My 1922 Silver Dollar is one of my most precious possessions.

9/21/2008 5:04:14 PM

We have two $2 bills in our cruise jar, one from each of us that got it as a younger person and kept it until we decided the cruise was way more important than keeping them.

9/21/2008 5:10:11 PM

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"Posted: Jun. 1, 2007"

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But yeah, that's pretty pitiful.

9/21/2008 5:40:45 PM

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"I LOVE getting $2 bills and $1 coins as change from the Post Office. It's always awesome to spend them at a convenient store and watch the cashiers get all confused."

don't get arrested, b

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43685

9/21/2008 7:35:14 PM

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"Posted: Jun. 1, 2007"

What part of Jun. 1, 2007 don't you understand?

I've been to that Food Lion many times. Lot's of crackheads and other messed up stuff going on.
Roanoke Ave. ftl.

[Edited on September 21, 2008 at 7:57 PM. Reason : l]

9/21/2008 7:57:19 PM

i dunno. that says "June 1st," but it quotes it as happening on September 6th...

9/21/2008 7:58:18 PM

It's old for real.

9/21/2008 8:03:08 PM

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"Commenting on the incident, Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey told the Sun: "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world.""

i'm pretty sure it's a sign that people are fucking retarded

9/21/2008 8:06:24 PM

^ ehe, that's what I thought. I wonder if the guy got his shit installed for free, lawls

9/21/2008 8:07:00 PM