I'd pay him one buck to keep it as a souvenir :)

When I comes down to it, I think it's actually smarter to try something like that at a bank. Not that that says much at all.

If he paid for his gas with is at the local Amoco, how would they be able to give him any change? With a bill that large you need to go some place with the proper funds.

But, it's still dumb either way.

I don't understand why they jump right for the non-existent $1million bill. I imagine that tellers know such a bill has never existed. The smarter thing to do would be to counterfeit those $1,000 bills...and just make 100,000 of them!

@liquisoft: There are no $1000 bills in circulation. They have not been circulated since 69.

"I'd buy that for a dollar!!" Or maybe I'd buy that fake money with a $2 bill. ;)

What are you talking about? Smarter to try this at a bank.... Not only are bank tellers trained to be able to identify visual and textural differences ebtween bills, they're also informed about things like, say, the largest bills ever in circulation, what bills are still considered valid currency, and helpful info like that. Dumb doesn't begin to describe trying to pull something like this off anywhere.

@liquisoft: Do you mean make 1,000 of them? Or are you trying to get $100,000,000? Seriously though, If you're going to put that much time and energy into a fake, at least make a real looking one. You can always barter your fakes for goods and services. Google Ron Paul One Dollar Scam aka Liberty Dollars.

I think that once a bill is put into circulation it remains legal tender even after it is taken out of circulation.

As punishment, have him slap him self without holding back 1,000 times in consequence of each other for disgracing the likeness of the deceased $1,000 bill.

Is it just me or does it look like the bank and/or teller tried to authenticate it by using a fraud pen? That brown marker line on the right looks like a counterfeit detecting pen mark. Did the teller really have to mark it up before going "Yup, it's a fake."?

I believe-and this may be Wikipedia talking-that the thousand dollar bill was taken out of circulation to make toting large sums of cash less convenient. That is, now your briefcase of drug money is bigger and heavier...

Phew! I was getting worried after a similar thing happened in Pittsburg. Thanks, GA, for making the South rise (fall) again!

Just a matter of time. It could cut down on the wheelbarrow loads needed to buy bread and gasoline in a few years.

i'm gonna hang omn mine as rusted says the bills will do away with the wheelbarrow

The most counterfeited bill is the $20 - nobody gives them a second glance (unlike the $100), and they're worth enough to make it worthwhile.

How is this fogery? If there's no such thing as a million dollar bill, you can't make a fake one.

@vladthepaler: Yes, you can. If I tape a cone to a horse's head, I have made a fake unicorn, even though they don't exist. Forgery involves creating fraudulent documents -- it doesn't have to be a reproduction of an existing document. If I make a nice pretty picture of my own design and sign it Van Gogh, it's still a forgery (assuming I'm passing it off as made by the Van Gogh).

There was a restaurant locally that had one idiot passed a $200 bill to them. Here's the kicker, the clerk accepted the bill and gave him change for a $100.

DUMBO!

Sorry didn't mean to offend the elephants in my previous post! :D

@vladthepaler: I agree. I thought there was a case in the past where someone paid with a $3 bill (or maybe it was a million dollar bill) and no charges were pressed because A) there was no such bill or B) a reasonable person would know the bill was fake.