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DELTONA, Fla. – Volusia County deputies were sent to Timbercrest Elementary School Tuesday after a student was found holding what appeared to be a $1 million bill.
According to Central Florida News 13 , school officials said the money looked very real and they were worried that it could be in circulation. However, $1 million bills were never in print or circulation to begin with.
The bill was only a novelty item, and a parent provided News 13 with a similar bill.
How stupid can those “school officials” be… and the deputies that showed up?
Found by just me.
Whats the best thinking on this? Dropped by a time traveler from…….what…..about 2050?
It’s a good thing they didn’t see the rarer $2,000,000 bill!
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
Incredible isn’t it how often people make the old old mistake of believing that all humanity thinks in the same way – despite the Incontrovertible evidence staring them in the face. Those who are employable as what is commonly referred to as ‘Officials’ do not think like human beings, do not have the same morals as human beings,are not ‘evidence led and bound’ as most humans are. These are people who behave like and are closely related to Chief Wiggum in thought, deed, belief and in their ability to act with judgement.
It’s why they were employed in the first place. They were employed because they think and act like that. Ever thought just how much of a drag on progress these people are? I have and I pray for the arrival of a penicillin specifically targetting this appalling virus. Certainly it is the case that any administrative savings are more than sacrificed by this kind of thicko behaviour.
What’s next, Monopoly money?
Well the people that made that call were pretty foolish. I don’t say this because they didn’t know that such a bill didn’t exist because I didn’t either. I’ve never seen a hundred thousand dollar bill either.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070716160946AAlJb1u
They should have at least had the wit to check with a bank and find out if such a bill actually existed. I checked with Wikipedia to make sure that no such bill had ever been issued so they could have done the same thing.
The people that answered the call were only foolish if they knew the “counterfeit” bill was for a million dollars.
A few years back I did turn in a home printer made dollar bill that someone had most likely hoped to pass in a vending machine. The edges were a little off.
I know wikipedia gets beat up on a lot, but I’ll post this anyway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency
30 seconds of research by a school official would have saved much all around.
Home schooling may be our only smart choice at this point.
Cheers!
—RASTER
A $2,000,000 bill at a school would be very suspicious. You normally only see those around race tracks!
Counterfeit is counterfeit. What makes this bill “safe” is not that you can look up the fact that there is no such bill, what makes it safe is that no one smart enough to make change on it would.
I am reminded of that artist guy who would bargain for a meal or supplies by giving the vendor a Twenty that the artist had hand painted. Not counterfeit but goods in return for unique art. I think he got a warning to stop it.
When money is your god, accept no substitutes.
So the deputies confiscated the bill and later were stymied when Dunkin’ Donuts couldn’t make change.
I believe the million dollar bill belongs to Mr Burns. If you return it to him you might get a donut. Exxxxxcellent.
I don’t think the officials were being stupid, but they have this assumption that everyone else is stupid, and could have passed that to buy something.
Funny thing is that $1million note has as much value as the $1 bill note I have in my wallet.
Weird…. I just found one of those bills laying on my driveway a few days ago.
It looks and feels amazingly real, same heft and size and color and even raised ink as a regular bill. If it were a $20, it would be a very good counterfeit bill.
I plan to pay my mortgage off next week with that bill.
Hey, the Republicans won… as promised, it’s raining million dollar bills from the sky!
Am surprised the news story didn’t end with several school officials standing there looking sheepish and saying “we called the sheriff because in these days it’s better to be safe than sorry”. This would be followed up with an announcement about a zero-tollerance policy toward counterfiting and the child would have been suspended for demonstrating that indeed school officials are not as smart as a 5th grader.
The school officials would then do the talk show circuit and appear on “The View” to justify why all of this was done.
They were probably planning on sending it to Wisconsin to help with their deficit and were hoping the bill was real, and would have been conficated from the child because that is the bill drug dealers typically use in elementary schools.
I think its used as a clean “cocaine snorter”.
Its old news that most (like 90%) of the US currency is contaminated with trace amount of cocaine.
These bills are used instead because they are not in circulation as currency.
I don’t know, maybe the “You’re One in a Million!” slogan on the back would make people think it was fake, LOL
Morons
If these were genuine and every 5year old had a million of them you confiscated them – you could just pay off the US debt
Bobo says: “Counterfeit is counterfeit”
A counterfeit is an imitation, usually one that is made with the intent of fraudulently passing it off as genuine.
There is no such thing as this bill, so no one can make an imitation of it.
ramuno–not a total fail, but very weak. The “imitation” is of legal tender. Lets say you make a counterfeit one dollar bill just missing that all knowing eye and pyramid, or say no serial numbers, and you try to pass it. Doesn’t matter there are no bills such as the one presented. Same thing.
#19 – no it isn’t. There is a fundamental legal difference between a poor copy of a real bill and a perfect imitation of a non-existent bill.
The treasury is quite happy for you to make billion $ bills all day – only trying to use one is a crime, as would passing a fake check. Making a copy of a $1 bill is illegal however poorly you do it.
Uh, hate to state the obvious.
On the front, it clearly says:
“THIS NOTE IS DEFINITELY NOT LEGAL TENDER”
I guess teachers and other school staff have somehow lost the skill to read?
[The bill in the photo is not necessarily the same as the one in the story. – ed.]
#20–nobody==”legal difference” huh? Do you have a cite to a case that tells you this or is your idea counterfeit?
Common sense has fled the country!
Apparently I may be the only one here old enough to remember that you could an can purchase play money just like this. Since it was sold as a toy or novelty I think it makes your point moot bobbo.
As a case in point you may Google play money or more specifically millbill.com.
Well, here’s one such case of “impossible money” being subject to official action:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642528/posts
Years ago I recall reading an article about tourists using monopoly money in some foreign place, but I forget the details.
How far from “obvious” in what context can vary from instance to instance. Common sense varies depending on what sense it is that is shared in common?
You got me there So What: we’ve all seen those beach towels in the form of a dollar bill? Now those are fake and legal so any other kind of fake must also be legal as well.
Emanuel Kant beat you.
Interesting counter point I would question under what laws the secret service used to validate the seizure. Per the statements in § 491. Tokens or paper used as money, there would need to be an “intent to defraud” or “with knowledge or reason to believe that such tokens, slugs, disks, devices, papers, or other things are intended to be used unlawfully or fraudulently” being the principal concepts. To that end a person could make any denomination they chose as a novelty simply by putting on the object a statement such as “This note is definitely not legal tender” only if they attempt to use it as legal tender do they then violate the treasury law. That an individual would attempt to deposit pr use one says more about their intelligence than the potential of illegal activity by the producer.
sorry that pr should have been or,
So What–stand proud: never correct your typo’s unless you are convinced no one reading your post is intelligent enough to figure it out. See just how much I rispectk everyone here at DU?
Several issues being conflated: the intent of the producer verses the intent of someone using a legal/joke facsimile to make a fraudulent transaction verses being found “not guilty” as a matter of law verses being arrested for it, hassled for it, and so on. Yes, lot’s of tangential issues confusing whatever it is that anyone wants to focus on.
One good reason to outlaw all such close but not possible forgeries is the routine action of banks to process paperwork and correct errors later when they are found out as well as interfering with cash machines and who knows what other recipients of fraud there are?
Beach towel=ok. Million dollar bill–one or two steps less appropriate.