Cops: Man tried to use $1M bill at NC Walmart!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Do you have change for a million-dollar bill?

Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_MILLION_DOLLAR_BILL?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[RandySF]

1. Did they pull a gun on him?

Police in Detroit pulled a gun on a family because the Walmart employee mistakenly thought they tried to pass a fake $100.

[SomethingFishy]

2. And the cashier checked it with the little brown pen..

held it up to the light.... and gave the guy his change.

[freshwest]

3. That is SO Republican!

[jberryhill]

4. How'd they know it wasn't real?

I sold everything I have to some nice young feller for two of those bills.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Technically speaking,

can ou counterfeit something that doesn't exist in reality?

[The Genealogist]

8. This reminds me of a case I read about years ago

Someone went to Dairy Queen and passed off a counterfeit bill that was so badly done that the counterfeiting charge was thrown out.

[L0oniX]

6. The Fed does this all the time.

[jmowreader]

7. They didn't bust him for counterfeiting, fortunately

He got arrested for "attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument." Which is still going to land him in the Bowels of the Bastille, but they're state charges and not federal ones.

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. I thought Mitt was in Iowa...

[thelordofhell]

10. Bond for trying to pass a $1M bill in North Carolina - $17,500

Bond for raping 3 underage girls in Huron, South Dakota - $10,000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/south-dakota-bar-owner-who-catered-to-teens-accused-of-raping-3-girls-after-giving-them-drinks/2011/12/29/gIQAN6ysOP_story.html

[Jackpine Radical]

11. But when you put up bond in NC, will they

make change for your $1 mil bill?

[FreakinDJ]

12. Only Banksters are allowed to have those

[DCKit]

13. One of those ackward "You got change for that" moments.

Admit it, we all wish we had that kind of balls.

[Selatius]

14. The US Treasury and the Federal Reserve never issued such a denomination but did with others.

The largest retired denominations that were issued throughout the history of the US beyond the 100 notes are the 500, 1000, 5000, 10,000, and finally 100,000 note. 100,000 notes were not for public use and were meant to be used only between different branches of the Federal Reserve.

On the other hand, the other notes are essentially locked away in private collections, since they are out of print are quite old.