Cashier accepts $200 bill and gives change . . .

earlwbollinger

This is good, I wonder if she still has a job?

Link to news story

Conder101

That makes at least three of those that I know of that have been tendered and accepted in the past four years.

nwcs

Yeah, I have heard of the $3 bills circulating, too.

kranky

Actually, we find those $200 bills pretty convenient in southwestern PA because it's easy to get change for a $400.

Gonfunko

Somehow I think that cashier will be making an appearance here soon.... How can anyone be that "mentally challenged"?

K6AZ

Here are the earlier stories, complete with images of the $200 note.

Smoking Gun

ziggy29

Given how little some of these clerks are paid...the business is getting what it paid for.

Russ

The signs on the Whitehouse lawn weren't a clue?

Russ, NCNE

jcping

Will anyone accept American Bank Note company's one million dollar notes

Conder101

The first one I heard of was passed in 2001 at Foart Knox KY where is was used for a two dollar purchase at a fast food drive through. They got back $198 in change and as far as I know they never caught up with them. Even if they did I'm not sure what if any laws have actually been broken. If you ask for $2 and I hand you one of those and you chose to accept it and give me change, I'm not sure I have done something illegal. That is basicly the same thing that Boggs does with his drawn notes except that explains that his notes are art. As long as I don't make a claim in any fashion that the notes are real money, or legal tender etc, I would seem to be in the clear.

earlwbollinger

one million dollar notes

I remember a year or so ago, someone in North or Sourth Carolina (I think) tried to cash in a 1,000,000 note
at the local bank. She was so adamant that they police wound up arresting her.

Before then at Xmas, I passed out to all the Foreign workers in our office a 1,000,000 note to each as a souvenir, I had one heck of a time explaining that the notes were not real. I won't be passing them out anymore. One guy almost made it to the bank before we
convinced him that the bills were not good as money.

CarsonCityGold

I think thats bad logic Condor. By your thinking every counterfeiter would be inocent. If you hand someone something that resembles currency for payment - then your guilty of attempting to pass counterfeit money - NO matter how stupid the clerk is. You are making the claim that its real money when you hand it to somene in exchange for goods or services. Otherwise, how would we ever convict someone for passing counterfeits? They never "announce" that this is real money when they hand it to someone. Just a thought.

Russ

<< <i>I think thats bad logic Condor. By your thinking every counterfeiter would be inocent. >>



There is actually some precedent for his logic. The most famous of the racketeer nickel makers was unable to be convicted for passing them because he never made any claim as to their denomination. He simply handed them over for payment and let the recipient assume it was a $5 gold rather than a nickel.

Russ, NCNE

Gonfunko

One thing that bugs me is when these people are charged with forgery, for a couple of reasons. First of all, how can you forge/counterfeit something that doesn't exist? And second of all, they didn't make the "notes" themselves - hence, they were not "forgers".

kranky

<< <i>

<< <i>I think thats bad logic Condor. By your thinking every counterfeiter would be inocent. >>



There is actually some precedent for his logic. The most famous of the racketeer nickel makers was unable to be convicted for passing them because he never made any claim as to their denomination. He simply handed them over for payment and let the recipient assume it was a $5 gold rather than a nickel.

Russ, NCNE >>



Are you Joshing us?

itsnotjustme

It's weird (sorry, different is a better term) here in Europe. I get 200 euro notes often. Being a US citizen converting dollars to euros, I often end up handling 200 and 500 euro notes. Looks like monopoly money. With the exchange rates, it spends like it too!

Russ

That was pretty good, Kranky.

Russ, NCNE