Man Arrested For Passing Not-Counterfeit $50 Bill

[myrna minx]

http://consumerist.com/2012/05/man-arrested-for-passing-not-counterfeit-50-bill.html

If you've ever been stuck having to buy something with a $50 or $100 bill in the last decade, you have probably had to stand there while a store clerk performs the marker test to see if the note is legitimate. Unfortunately, that test doesn't work on older bills, and that's how a Tennessee man ended up in jail over the weekend.

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"The front side of the bill was off center and it didn't feel like a normal bill, it did look to be counterfeit," wrote the arresting officer in his report.

It wasn't until after the man was behind bars that an evidence tech at the police department mentioned that the markers won't work on older bills.

http://www.t-g.com/story/1843748.html

[hootinholler]

1. Good to know! n/t

[PoliticAverse]

2. I hope he's well compensated in the resulting lawsuit.

And whatever you do don't try paying with a $2 bill...

[Solomon]

4. That Mark Twain story was great. Wish I could remember

the title of it. I'd like to read it again.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. wow.

[Lint Head]

5. I wonder if the counterfeit highlighter, like the lie detector evidence, is inadmissible in court?

[Mosby]

6. Real or not he never should have been arrested. nt

[Jumping John]

7. Happened to a friend of mne with a old $100 bill