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03-09-2004, 02:10 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Woman Tried to Pass Fake $1Million Bill
COVINGTON, Ga. - A woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse, police said.
The United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but people can buy souvenirs of such a bill at some stores, police said.
"It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," Covington Police Chief Stacey Cotton said Tuesday. "People do crazy things all the time. I think it's just another example of some odd things that occur."
A clerk at the store immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said.
Pike then tried to use two gift cards with only $2.32 of value on them to buy the merchandise, but when that didn't work she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.
Pike, of Porterdale, was charged with forgery. There was no listing for her phone number in directory assistance, and she could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Covington is 32 miles southeast of Atlanta.
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03-09-2004, 02:18 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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Even if it were real, where's the checkout bod going to find $998,325 in change from?
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03-09-2004, 02:19 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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hahahaha ... i see we still have stupid people in this world.
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03-09-2004, 03:02 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Damn! People get dumber by the day.
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03-09-2004, 03:33 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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LOL... that's amazing but kind of scary. Real stupid
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03-09-2004, 03:37 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Maybe she was blonde?
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03-09-2004, 03:53 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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I wouldn't be surprised
I have a fake million dollar bill the previous home owners of this house glued on my garage wall. That could've been me at the walmart you know
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03-09-2004, 03:56 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Don't do it Frosty!!!
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03-09-2004, 03:59 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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It looks like we have an early contender for 2004's Darwin award!
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03-09-2004, 04:01 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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Don't worry, it's too superglued to my wall. It's not going anywhere
EDIT: lol... this reminds me that one day last year I was at a stoplight in my car and there were these two masked men dressed in white who were actually robbing a bank in broad daylight right in front of me. I guess they wore white instead of black because it was "daylight" you know. So they were very smart! This was in a very nice neighborhood area and they had the trunk of their car open (I guess to throw in the stolen loot). I saw the whole thing unravel as a long trail of about 5 cops pulled up and haulted the robbery with guns drawn and everything. This was happening all at the same time there was this huge tornado up the road next to us coming from the ocean. Strange day it was.Last edited by Frosty; 03-09-2004 at 04:10 PM.
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03-09-2004, 04:05 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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Regarding the subject line for this thread: since there's no such thing as a "real" $1 million bill, is a "fake" $1 million bill like a double negative in speech?
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03-09-2004, 04:06 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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I like that part about the clerk immediately knowing the bill was fake.
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03-09-2004, 04:10 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by hostpath.com
Regarding the subject line for this thread: since there's no such thing as a "real" $1 million bill, is a "fake" $1 million bill like a double negative in speech?
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03-09-2004, 04:33 PM #14Junior Guru
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Originally posted by timechange.com
I believe Scrooge McDuck has had $1,000,000 bills for some time now.Jeremy D. Pavleck (jjpavleck(AT)GMail(dot)com)
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03-09-2004, 05:02 PM #15Web Hosting Guru
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lol blondes these days
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03-09-2004, 05:54 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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Greedy STUPID people. She "might" have got away with it had she used $1000 bills. (assuming you have those in the states). I had a few real $1k (Canadian) bills a few years ago. They were pretty cool.
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03-09-2004, 06:02 PM #17Junior Guru
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Originally posted by RMF
Greedy STUPID people. She "might" have got away with it had she used $1000 bills. (assuming you have those in the states). I had a few real $1k (Canadian) bills a few years ago. They were pretty cool.
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Fun Trivia Fact: In the 1860s, there where over 8000 banks in the USA and they produced bank notes that ranged in values from 1/2 cent to $20,000Jeremy D. Pavleck (jjpavleck(AT)GMail(dot)com)
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03-09-2004, 06:25 PM #18An Awesome Dude
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Stupidist cracy thing i have ever heard of!!
Thanx 4 the laugh
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03-09-2004, 06:27 PM #19Web Hosting Master
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Oh god... I feel ashamed to live within 50 miles of that woman. Wow. I'm amazed that such stupidity exists.
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03-09-2004, 07:02 PM #20Web Hosting Master
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I've actually read of someone trying to pass off a fake $17 bill! SEVENTEEN! What country even makes a bill w/ such an odd number?!!?
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03-09-2004, 07:04 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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She may have been desperate, not stupid.
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03-09-2004, 07:30 PM #22Web Hosting Master
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This woman is the dumbest idiot I've ever heard of :/
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03-09-2004, 07:53 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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Only at Walmart!
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Originally posted by Xshare
Oh god... I feel ashamed to live within 50 miles of that woman. Wow. I'm amazed that such stupidity exists.
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Originally posted by Xshare
Oh god... I feel ashamed to live within 50 miles of that woman. Wow. I'm amazed that such stupidity exists.