Students Suspended for Using Phony Money

[emad]

Saturday April 9, 2005 4:01 PM


WEST SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) - A sixth-grader and two of his friends were suspended for using phony dollar bills made on a home computer to buy food in the school cafeteria.

On Monday, a cafeteria worker at James Madison Middle School found a dollar bill that didn't look or feel like the real thing. Seattle School District spokeswoman Patti Spencer said people in the lunch room were told to watch for more counterfeit bills.

An assistant principal called Seattle police the next day after a sixth-grader tried to use one of the fake bills to buy beef jerky from the cafeteria.

Seattle Police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said the boy made 20 fake dollar bills on his aunt's computer, brought them to school and shared them with his friends.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4925223,00.html

[illflem]

1. Another scam that people are getting away with

because most people aren't familar with them is computer copied USPO money orders

[Toots]

2. If that is Bush*'s picture on that bill it should have the denomination of

ZERO. It would only be fitting...

[Massacure]

3. That would be hallarious to have a zero dollar bill.

If you were to purchase something for a 99 cents, and hand the cashier a real one dollar bill and a fake zero dollar bill, is that illegal?

[LiberalFighter]

4. The cashier might think the zero should be added to the end of the dollar