Subject: [NEXTEL-1] DUMB & DUMBER- Woman arrested for trying to pass million dollar bill

From: Marcelrf <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:39:34 -0500

Woman arrested for trying to pass million dollar bill

COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) -- A Georgia
woman who tried to use a fake $1 million
bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at
Wal-Mart was arrested, and police later
found two more of the bills in her purse.

The U.S. Treasury does not make $1
million bills, but similar-looking currency is
sold in some souvenir shops. The fake bill
featured a picture of the Statue of Liberty,
police said.

"It looks real, but of course there's nothing
real about this," said Stacey Cotton,
police chief in Covington, about 30 miles
southeast of Atlanta. "People do crazy
things all the time."

A store clerk immediately noticed the bill
was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina
Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton
said.

Pike then tried to use two gift cards worth only $2.32 to buy the
merchandise, but when that did not
work she again asked to cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store
then called police.

Pike was jailed on forgery charges. A woman who answered the phone at
the jail said she did not know
if Pike has a lawyer.

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2004/03/09/roundups/roundups/30f935f879ba598f86256e520074be4c.txt

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