WIAKywbfatw's Journal: Serious Pocket Change?

This story courtesy of BBC News.

US woman shops with fake $1m bill

A US woman has been charged with forgery after trying to use a fake $1 million bill at a supermarket.

Alice Pike, 35, pulled out the note at a Georgia Wal-Mart store to pay for $1,672 worth of goods and asked for change, police said.

The cashier immediately noticed the bill - bearing the picture of the Statue of Liberty - was fake and called her manager who alerted the police.

The US Treasury does not make $1m bills, which only go as high as $100.

In 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System discontinued banknotes in denominations of $500, $1,000 and $10,000 due to lack of use.

"This is the first time in my law enforcement career I've seen someone trying to use a $1 million bill," local police chief Almond Turner was quoted as saying by the Houston Chronicle newspaper.

"It was green, but you could tell it was not a real bill," Mr Turner added.

Ms Pike had three of the $1m bills when she was arrested at the store in Covington on Tuesday, police said.

Mr Turner said she claimed she got the bills from her husband

A fistful of these and you could buy a country! Perhaps we should be sending them to Nigerian 419 scammers and other spammers?

Walmart?

[Servo]

You'd think if you had 3 million on hand you'd shop somewhere nicer than Walmart.

Re:Walmart?

[Em Emalb]

No dude. Because she's a frigging twit...that's why she takes her $1mil to walmart.

She doesn't have the brain power to A) realize there's no such thing as a million dollar bill, and B) hey I got all this money, I'm goin to Wally World!

Sheesh.

This is news of the incredibly stupid.

Re:Walmart?

[turg]

Not to mention that it seems she seriously expected [cnn.com] that a cashier at Wal-Mart would be able to give her change for a million-dollar bill.

I think she doesn't (didn't?) quite realize exactly how much a million dollars is.

Re:Walmart?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Damn straight. She didn't even have the common sense to put a little pinky to the corner of her mouth when she presented the note.

Re:Walmart?

[Shakrai]

Not to mention that it seems she seriously expected that a cashier at Wal-Mart would be able to give her change for a million-dollar bill.

If she was smart she would have told the cashier that they could keep the change ;)

Re:Walmart?

[Frisky070802]

Maybe she was hoping that at Walmart, she'd find a cashier even stupider than she is?