Spending A $10 Bill While Black

William Parcher said:
What would happen if a bill was submerged in bleach for a period of time? Could it then appear counterfeit to just about anyone but still be real?
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I once forgot some (Danish) bills in a pair of jeans before washing and drying them. They didn't look different, but the texture was a little weird.
 
dann said:
I once forgot some (Danish) bills in a pair of jeans before washing and drying them. They didn't look different, but the texture was a little weird.
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You can wash our money to your heart's content. Being plastic it won't harm the bills at all, just don't try and iron them!
 
PhantomWolf said:
You can wash our money to your heart's content. Being plastic it won't harm the bills at all, just don't try and iron them!
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Same in the UK, well, getting there.

Our £5 and £10 are plastic with the £20 and £50 soon to go plastic as well.
 
ahhell said:
The pens are unreliable, they detect starch, so they'll only detect really bad counterfeit bills. There are numerous anti-counterfeit features built into real bills that are far more reliable. A cop should have been able to tell on the spot that it wasn't. I wonder if this guy got belligerent or something. Not uncommon for homeless folks and makes more sense than he was actually arrested for having a possibly counterfeit $10 bill.

I used to frequent a krispy creme that routinely checked my $5 bills with those pens that don't work. As a middle aged white guy*, I found it infuriating and complained to the store and wrote an email to krispy kreme. They clearly didn't care and I stopped going. Seriously, who's counterfeiting fives?

For a $10, the most the should have done is not take it, this seems pretty stupid.


*Not really why I found it infuriating, just pointing out that some folks do this for even white dudes with tiny bills. Seriously, a 5?
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Why make up a reason for his arrest rather than go by what the article reported I. e. ".... wrongfully accused of trying to pay for his meal with a fake $10 bill. He spent more than three months in jail...."?
 
Darat said:
Why make up a reason for his arrest rather than go by what the article reported I. e. ".... wrongfully accused of trying to pay for his meal with a fake $10 bill. He spent more than three months in jail...."?
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'there's always more to the story' is the usual excuse.
 
blutoski said:
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The other thing is the police... if the grounds for the cashier calling in 'counterfeit' was these known-not-reliable pens, the police should have used their discretion, not cuff the guy and hold him at taxpayer's expense for a quarter of a year.

Officer: Why do you think it's counterfeit?
Cashier: Oh, officer, I used this dowsing rod / my spirit animal told me in a dream / known scam pen / other...
Officer: OK, cashier, I think this is an education opportunity, is your manager here?
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The problem with the highlighted phrase is as skeptics, we know the pens are unreliable. I suspect a large majority of the public trusts them implicitly without knowing how they can be tripped up.

Just look at the work that was required to take down the obviously fake AED 651 bomb detector.
 
Darat said:
Why make up a reason for his arrest rather than go by what the article reported I. e. ".... wrongfully accused of trying to pay for his meal with a fake $10 bill. He spent more than three months in jail...."?
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Because news reports are often wrong and leave out key details, and it makes no sense that some homeless guy would get arrested for trying to pass an actual counterfeit 10 let alone a real 10 that was thought to be counterfeit and then spend 3 months in jail.

I'm not saying I actually know what happened, I just strongly suspect there's some missing details.
 
ahhell said:
Because news reports are often wrong and leave out key details, and it makes no sense that some homeless guy would get arrested for trying to pass an actual counterfeit 10 let alone a real 10 that was thought to be counterfeit and then spend 3 months in jail.

I'm not saying I actually know what happened, I just strongly suspect there's some missing details.
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I could be wrong, but I think it simply boils down to the fact that he was on probation and got arrested. That is an automatic violation of probation even if the arrest was BS. There is normally no bail for violation of probation and you have to stay in jail until your court date.

I can easily see it going something like:

Probation officer: Well we found out the bill was real.
Homeless guy: So when will I be released?
Probation Officer: Well the problem is you got arrested and that is a violation of probation.
Homeless guy: But I didn't do anything wrong.
Probation officer: You got arrested.
Homeless guy: Yeah, but the bill was real.
Probation officer: Tough ****. See you in court.
 
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