[aldo_14]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/09/million.dollar.bill.ap/index.html

[Carl]

sometimes i think people do these things just to get attention.

[Bobboau]

.../US/South/...
I think I can see were this is going

...

yup... is that realy a woman?
and I can just see how this happened she's walking along outside when she sees something on the ground. wow! a million dolar bill! shopping spree!
I wandered if she expected change...

[Stryke 9]

Ha, nice try! That's obviously a man!

[phreak]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I wandered if she expected change...

you're expecting too much from wal-mart

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Bobboau
.../US/South/...
I think I can see were this is going

...

yup... is that realy a woman?
and I can just see how this happened she's walking along outside when she sees something on the ground. wow! a million dolar bill! shopping spree!
I wandered if she expected change...

Well... thing is - she had 3.

So she bought them.

COVINGTON, Georgia (AP) -- A Georgia woman who tried to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart
(snip)
Pike then tried to use two gift cards worth only $2.32 to buy the merchandise, but when that did not work she again asked to cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.

[Bobboau]

...woman?...

[aldo_14]

human?

[Bobboau]

carbon based?

man, if this wasn't the case to try the stupidity defence I don't know what would.

[aldo_14]

I'm just checking it isn;t April 1st.............

[Rictor]

Argh!

For a second there, I thought some bastard had pulled a prank and pointed the link to tubgirl.

You know, I once bought a 2 million dollar bill somewhere. I was never stupid enough to actually try to buy something with it though.

[karajorma]

Okay. The story was funny but I loved this piece of lazy reporting more

Pike was jailed on forgery charges. A woman who answered the phone at the jail said she did not know if Pike has a lawyer.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by aldo_14
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/09/million.dollar.bill.ap/index.html

Meh. She's just an attention whore.

One interesting semi-related piece of trivia: The US government once made special bills with denominations of up to $500,000 for banks, but they stopped producing them in the 80s or 90s.

[Bobboau]

were is that trillion dollar bill

[karajorma]

You know what. They should have given her the change in dollar bills just to watch this idiot try to take it out of the store

I guess she didn't realise how much a million dollars actually weighs

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Bobboau
were is that trillion dollar bill

Castro has it.

[Admiral Nelson]

A much better story...

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/MilPou.shtml

Twain anticipated this lady by a century...

[Rictor]

That was one of my favorite episodes. I could fill a page with the funnays.

[mikhael]

See, when a friend showed me this last night, he summed it up perfectly:

Stupidity should be painful.

That would take care of everything. Evolution would shake out the idiots.

[karajorma]

Stupidity is already painful

And very funny too