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Thu 5 Jan, 2012 09:49 am
Police: Man tried to use $1,000,000 bill at NC Walmart
Posted: 12:29 pm EST January 2, 2012
LEXINGTON, N.C. -- Police say a Lexington man was arrested after he insisted the million-dollar bill he wanted to use to pay for $476 worth of items at Walmart was real.
Investigators said 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items with the bill, and store employees called police after he insisted the $1 million note was real cash.
The largest bill currently in circulation is the $100 bill. The government stopped making bills of up to $10,000 in 1969.
Fuller was charged with attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument. He is in jail on a $17,500 bond, and it isn't clear if he has an attorney. He is scheduled to be in court Tuesday.
@chai2,
chai2 wrote:
Fuller was charged with attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument. He is in jail on a $17,500 bond, and it isn't clear if he has an attorney.
Got change for a $20,000?
@Questioner,
Darn, you beat me to the punch on that one.
@chai2,
What I wondered when I read that is if the poor guy actually thought it was real.
We saw some fake $1,000,000 bills at the Ripley's Believe it or Not Odditorium giftshop, almost got one. They did look pretty real, except for the whole "way too many zeroes" thing.
@chai2,
sounds like a future darwin award candidate.
@Linkat,
To me the funniest part is where he expected to get change.
Well, that would have set him up for life.
@chai2,
Not to mention like a store would have that much change available....
And how the h*ll would he discretely be able to carry all the change out of the store - I don't think it would fit in his wallet.
@Linkat,
Well, nine $100,000 bills don't take up too much space in the old wallet.
@DrewDad,
Well aren't they bigger than a $1 bill???
I can give you six Woodrow Wilson but you'll have to take the rest in Samuel P. Chases.
Joe(oh, and sixty rolls of quarters)Nation
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