Seems some kids in Seattle have gotten suspended for passing counterfeit money in the school cafeteria. When I was a kid, there were all kinds of opportunities to make money: paper routes, selling greeting cards through ads in comic books, things like that. I even sold GRIT for a few years (anybody remember that newspaper?). We have to give the little criminals credit at least for ingenuity, especially since the cafeteria took the money and only noticed the counterfeit later. These kids'll be something when they grow up.
On the other end of the intellectual scale, a Best Buy store called in the Secret Service when a customer used $2 bills to pay for a car stereo. Legitimate bills. Of course they're legitimate! Who in his right mind thinks a counterfeiter would waste his time making fake twos? Law of diminishing returns, and all that.
Memo to the manager at the Best Buy: Hire sixth-graders. They know good cash from bad better than you do.
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