Also note she had $1700 of stuff in her cart(s)! That's a lot of stuff at a Wal-Mart. She must have emptied whole racks/shelves. When the clerk balked at the big bill, she tried to pay with $3 in gift cards. It sounds like a deliberate plea for attention to me.
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Woman tries to pass off $1 Million Dollar Bill
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I believe I've seen that for real. I remember as a kid, going on a tour of the Treasury department with my parents, and being shocked to see a bill that big. It was in a secured area, in a wall display frame along with examples of the more usual, smaller denominations.agreenster said:
Is it just me, or does she look mightily p---ed?applemacdude said:
Thomas Veil said:
Its on the tour of the bureau of engraving and printing. (Where they print the bills) Get there early the tours are packed.
slowtreme said:
Perhaps the act of trying to use it as legal tender makes it counterfeit? Not of the denomination itself (since $1M bill of course never existed), but of the device that it's used for.
i think any attempt to make or pass off on any currency lookalike is counterfeiting. it's probably irrelevant whether the "real" thing exists or not. trying to pass illegitimate note as legal tender is..?
but i see your point, though. counterfeiting is usually faking something and how can you fake something that doesn't exist?
i like the thought of using $1,000,000 bill to pay for $1,600 in merchandise. that's equivalent to handing over a $100 bill for a 20 cent bubble gum purchase.
but i see your point, though. counterfeiting is usually faking something and how can you fake something that doesn't exist?
i like the thought of using $1,000,000 bill to pay for $1,600 in merchandise. that's equivalent to handing over a $100 bill for a 20 cent bubble gum purchase.
I have some old silver certificates, they are so cool! The neatest legal tender bills had to be the Hawaii Silver Certificates, I wish I had some
Macmaniac said:I have some old silver certificates, they are so cool! The neatest legal tender bills had to be the Hawaii Silver Certificates, I wish I had some
I saw a couple of them at a local antique mall awhile back... didn't get them tho because they were really chewed up... but I agree, they're cool.
I also really like the $10,000 bill. Binion's Horseshoe casino in downtown Las Vegas used to have a display of 100 (!) of them. Luckily I got to see it before they SOLD them!!
Sad followup really.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../20040311/ap_on_re_us/brf_million_dollar_bill
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../20040311/ap_on_re_us/brf_million_dollar_bill
MongoTheGeek said:
my goodness, that's outrageous. the fact she had loaded up her cart with $1,600 worth of merchandise shows how out of touch she is. it's not like her gift cards came anywhere close to that amount and it's not every day that someone shops for that much to begin with. (at a walmart, of all places...)
estranged husband would just give her a million bucks. suuurree...
jxyama said:my goodness, that's outrageous. the fact she had loaded up her cart with $1,600 worth of merchandise shows how out of touch she is. it's not like her gift cards came anywhere close to that amount and it's not every day that someone shops for that much to begin with. (at a walmart, of all places...)
estranged husband would just give her a million bucks. suuurree...
My point is that she was probably just stupid not malicious and stupid.
MongoTheGeek said:
i guess she is "stupid"... really out of touch with reality, but i guess that's what stupidity is...
when i first heard the news, i thought the person must just be nuts and really thought $1 million bill was "real." i just thought it would be unbelievably dumb of someone to maliciously (as you said) pass off $1 million bill as real.
I have to say, this was one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time, the logic was amazing...
I'll buy $1,700 worth of stuff with my $1,000,000 and I'm sure that I'm going to WalMart won't give me away, and who cares if they most likely don't carry $998,300 change on hands, they'll just give me a check, I'm sure, ROFL
Edit: BE NICE, I'm slow!
I'll buy $1,700 worth of stuff with my $1,000,000 and I'm sure that I'm going to WalMart won't give me away, and who cares if they most likely don't carry $998,300 change on hands, they'll just give me a check, I'm sure, ROFL
Edit: BE NICE, I'm slow!
In response to all the remarks that this woman is stupid. She is mentally ill. I heard that she was off her medication or something on the news.
Yeah she was wacko...
Anyone who never knew there was never a $1 Mill bill... Like this one.
I mean how about asking your husband where he GOT THEM?
Anyone who never knew there was never a $1 Mill bill... Like this one.
I mean how about asking your husband where he GOT THEM?