The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 41, October 14, 2007, Article 26

MAN OFFERS MILLION DOLLAR BILL, WAITS FOR CHANGE

On Tuesday the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported the latest 
incident of the attempted passing of a $1 million bill:

"The likeness of Grover Cleveland is on this fake $1 million 
bill. Cleveland's portrait is on the genuine $1,000 bill, which 
has been out of circulation since 1969. If you're going to 
spend counterfeit money, it might help to use a denomination 
that actually exists. 

"An unidentified man who asked a Giant Eagle cashier to make 
change for his $1 million bill learned that lesson the hard 
way, Pittsburgh police said Monday. 

"The man entered the store on Cedar Avenue in the North Side 
shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday. He walked to the customer 
service counter, handed over the bill containing the likeness 
of Grover Cleveland and asked for change, police Cmdr. 
Catherine McNeilly said. 

"The cashier refused and called the manager, McNeilly said. 
The manager told the man the bill was not real and the man 
asked for the bill back. When the manager refused -- telling 
the man the store had a policy of not returning counterfeit 
money -- the man became enraged and grabbed an electronic 
funds transfer machine and slammed it against the counter, 
McNeilly said. 

"The man then reached for the cashier's scanner gun, and 
the manager called police, McNeilly said. 

"The $1 million bill seized Saturday might have originated 
from a Dallas-based ministry, which last year distributed 
thousands of religious pamphlets with a picture of the 
bogus bill, police said." 

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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