After paying for the sandwich the person using the note received and kept all of the change. A message posted on the PSNI’s Newry station Facebook page said: “It’s a pretend 100 euro note from a leading kiddies’ toy store. So why do we have it in an evidence bag I hear you query? Well it’s in an evidence bag because it’s evidence. Evidence of the offence of tendering counterfeit currency. I know, I know a kids play note counterfeit currency??
“Well believe it or not this was actually accepted as payment recently in business premises in Newry.” Newry is a bi-currency city due to its close proximity to the border with the Irish Republic, with most of its shops accepting euros as well as sterling. Later, the PSNI called on all counter staff to be more vigilant when handling notes: “If you work in a cash handling job please take five seconds to check all notes you are accepting.
“The first check would be look at the thing! The second would be to swipe a counterfeit detector pen across it, you can buy these online for pennies. Then consider the feel of the note.” The PSNI added: “Clearly no checks were done on this note and that business is now €100 down plus the value of the goods it was used to ‘pay’ for!”
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There was a 1999 seriocomic show called _Vengeance Unlimited_ wherein a vigilante uses clever and generally non-bloody means to take down bad guys.
In one episode, Mr. Chapell (the protagonist) needs to get into the skull of target just a bit, and he takes him into a diner where everyone is paying with Monopoly money, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. The mark doesn't realize that everyone in the diner is someone who owes Mr. Chapell a "favor"--the currency used in the show's schtick. When the mark tries to pay with real money, Chapell says something like, "What are you doing? You want to get arrested? Here, this'll tide you over" and give him a few Monopoly bills. Totally freaks the mark out, of course.
A show sadly missed.
Argh. Too many typos in my last post. Need caffeine. Intravenous caffeine.
Lurker111
That's the only episode and scene from that show that I remember.
“...business is now €100 down plus the value of the goods it was used to ‘pay’ for!”
1) Euros_crook = 0
Euros_restaurant = 100
2) Crook pays with fake 100 Euro note for ~10 Euro meal.
Euros_crook = 0
Euros_restaurant =100
3) Crook is given 90 Euros change and his meal, which must cost the restaurant less than 10 Euros.
Euros_restaurant > 0
Euros_crook = 90
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