Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested'

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18. Ya gotta wonder about that counterfeiter story from 50+ years ago.

A group of counterfeiters had stolen all the proper cotton paper and ink, and had a master engraver to make the plates for the perfect $10 bills. The trouble was, the engraver was also an alkie to the third degree, and his cohorts had to makes sure he stayed off the sauce while he was working. They were successful up to a point.

Everything was going according to plan, but the engraver smuggled a bottle of Jim Beam into his studio as he was putting the last detail on his $10 bills--the denomination. Sure enough, his talent was unwavering, but in his drunken stupor, instead of engraving the number "10" and the words "Ten Dollars" he engraved the number "18" and the words "Eighteen Dollars." Unaware of this, the others fired up the presses and printed their bills. When they were done, they went to inspect their stash, and found they had printed themselves thousands of perfectly genuine-looking $18 bills.

Completely dejected, they wondered what they could do with them. One said, "all might not be lost. We'll just drive down south, through a few hundred hick towns, and spend them one by one. Those hillbillies will never know there's something wrong."

Figuring this was their only hope, they loaded the bills into a U-Haul and headed south. In some tucked-away one horse town in rural Alabama, they drove into the local gas station, saw am old man at the counter, and went up to him, respectfully asking, "excuse me, sir, would you be able to change an eighteen dollar bill for me?" The man looked up, smiled and said, "i sure can!" They rubbed their hands with glee until he asked them, "how would you like that, in sixes or in nines?"