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Man tries to cash forged $360 billion check at Texas bank; is arrested for forgery. (Big surprise!)
Is it a wonder that the rest of the world thinks we’re all a bunch of mouth-breathing, drooling goobers?
Who could have more than a fourth-grade education and honestly believe that a.) anyone in this country has 360 billion dollars floating around in their checking account, and that b.) any bank branch in this country happens to have that much money stacked in the drawers behind the counter just in case anyone wants to cash a check equal to the annual defense budget of the entire United States?
You want to know the scary part? People like that are usually allowed to vote, right up to their first felony conviction.
May 2, 2008 at 11:33 pm
It makes the original property owner prerequisite seem sensible.
May 3, 2008 at 1:40 am
At least he gets to tell his cellmates, who are in for robbing liquor stores, that he is in for trying to steal 360 billion dollars.
May 3, 2008 at 6:05 am
There are people that dumb in any nation that has a human population.
For instance, the guy may have tried to swindle $360B, but had he succeeded, I bet he wouldn’t have used the money to buy a single David Hasselhoff album.
May 3, 2008 at 6:08 am
See? Paying attention in Maths class is important! I gotta cookie here says brother has no idea how big a billion is.
Would that this were limited to ‘Murricans but forsooth, such idiocy only seems local — it’s so common we only hear about the biggest and/or nearest examples.
May 3, 2008 at 10:09 am
“I gotta cookie here says brother has no idea how big a billion is.”
He would have asked for 360 gazillion, but didn’t know how to spell it.
May 3, 2008 at 11:33 pm
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