Wal-Mart shopper comes up zero with bogus bills
Hmm...when our latest DUMB@$$ is done paying her debt to society, she might just be qualified to work in the Federal Reserve System- or on George W. Bush's economic policy team.
ATLANTA -- Maybe it was the funny-looking image of the Statue of Liberty that raised the cashier's suspicions.
Or maybe it was the number of zeros.
Either way, Janice Sanders, a cashier at the Wal-Mart store in Covington, Ga., thought better than to take the $1 million bill.
Yes, $1 million.
So Sanders called her manager, who called Covington police, who arrested the woman, Alice Pike, 35.
The federal government, by the way, doesn't make $1 million bills. They only go as high as $100 bills. In 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System discontinued currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, 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," said Covington Assistant Police Chief Almond Turner, who's been an officer for 31 years. "It was green, but you could tell it was not a real bill."
Pike was being held Tuesday at Newton County Jail on $2,550 bail. She is charged with first-degree forgery.
Or first-degree stupidity. Ms. Pike is probably STILL trying to figure out what she did wrong. How about we just let her figure it out for herself? Of course, if Ms. Pike has an entrepreneurial streak, perhaps she could open her own bank when trades in her prison stripes for civvies again. All she needs is a better printer.
