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    Cops: Man tried to use $1M bill at NC Walmart

    Associated Press – Sat, Dec 31, 2011

    LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Do you have change for a million-dollar bill?

    Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart.

    Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal (http://bit.ly/u7ZrEN ) that 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items. Store employees called police after his insistence that the bill was legit, and Fuller was arrested.

    The largest bill in circulation is $100. The government stopped making bills of up to $10,000 in 1969.

    Fuller was charged with attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument. He is in jail on a $17,500 bond, and it isn't clear if he has an attorney. He is scheduled to be in court Tuesday.

     
     
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    7,259 comments

    • boB
      boB  •  Missoula, Montana  •  18 days ago
      Treat him for cranial retitis!
    • kittygirl
      kittygirl  •  19 days ago
      What a loser!
    • Stuart
      Stuart  •  Dallas, Texas  •  20 days ago
      if the teller had given him his change back, he could've had the $17,500 he now needs for bail!
    • Veritas
      Veritas  •  20 days ago
      He got greedy. He should have used a $100,000 note from the game of Life with Art Linkletter on it.
    • Jonathan
      Jonathan  •  New York, New York  •  29 days ago
      This is why Americans are considered stupid...
    •     
            •  1 mth 23 days ago
      Wait for tomorrow's headline when he trys to use his 'Get out of jail free' card
    • oldman
      oldman  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      I don't know what is stupider - trying to pass off a $1M note - or expecting a cashier to have change for it in their register?
    • Jay
      Jay  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      If stupidity was a crime...there wouldn't be enough jails on the planet!
    • Scott R
      Scott R  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      One half hour later, Fuller posted his bond and walked out of the police station with $982,500 change...
    • Quackers
      Quackers  •  Pompano Beach, Florida  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      Should have walked in with a top hat, monocle and cane. He had a better chance using Monopoly money.
    • Pakal-Moon
      Pakal-Moon  •  Elkhart, Indiana  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      And as Foghorn Leghorn, the big rooster said, "That Boy is about as sharp as a pound of wet liver"
    • anonymous
      anonymous  •  Pleasanton, California  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      Bond for raping 3 underage girls in Huron, South Dakota - $10,000 (Thursday news)
      Bond for harmless stupidity with fake $1MM bill - $17,500
      What a warped country we live in...
    • Glenn
      Glenn  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      As the great sage Bugs Bunny would say "What a maroon".
    • in_detox
      in_detox  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      If he can get that $1M bill out of the evidence locker, he should be able to use it to hire a pretty darn good attorney!
    • masoro2001
      masoro2001  •  San Francisco, California  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      Funny how every time you read about someone trying to spend a $1,000,000 bill it always seems to be at a Wal*Mart.
    • Sean
      Sean  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      Later, at the jail..."Your bond is $17,500." "That's just fine...can you break this million?"
    • len lauro
      len lauro  •  Pleasanton, California  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      Why doesn't he use one of his $17,500 bills for the bond?
    • Alfred
      Alfred  •  New York, New York  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      Since the country never had a one million dollar bill, a counterfeit US one million dollar bill can not exist. Hence, the uttering charge and not a counterfeiting charge.
    • Le Nom d
      Le Nom d  •  Olathe, Kansas  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      This guy probably isn't a criminal. He's probably just an imbecile.
    • Christopher B
      Christopher B  •  1 mth 23 days ago
      Sounds like a bad joke gone very bad.
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