The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 23, June 6, 2004, Article 19

THE LATEST STUPID COUNTERFEITERS

  "News of the Weird" brings us another installment in the
  "Stupid Counterfeiters" vein:  ""John Parker and Rick
  Owens were arrested in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart
  in Athens, Texas, in April, after they were allegedly spotted
  by several people sitting in their car carefully cutting out
  individual counterfeit bills from larger sheet they had just
  printed."

  [I understand cutting notes out of sheets of GENUINE
  uncut U.S. notes was a pastime of some collectors years
  ago.  They loved to see the looks on the faces of waiters
  and shopkeepers, but as word of the practice got back
  to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, sales of the
  uncut sheets to the public were stopped, never to resume
  for decades.    Can anyone corroborate this story?
  Has anyone ever tried it?  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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