Man Arrested For Trying To Pass A $360 Billion Check
Meet Charles Ray Fuller, 21, of Crowley, TX. He was arrested on April 22 after allegedly trying to pass a check for $360 billion at a Forth Worth Chase bank.
The resulting news story has what may be the greatest sentence ever written:
The personal check was not made out to Mr. Fuller and when the bank contacted the check owner, the woman said she did not write a check for $360 billion.
Really? She didn't? You'll be shocked to hear that Mr. Fuller was also charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon and possession of marijuana. When asked why he was tying to cash a check for such a large amount, Fuller told police that the check "was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business." No word on whether Mr. Fuller and his girlfriend are still dating.
Man accused of trying to cash check for $360,000,000,000 [Dallas Morning News]
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The stark reality that the movie "Blank Check" should have been.
I have a feeling the only exchange of currency that man has ever experienced is for drugs, and that he has absolutely no idea how much $360 BILLION dollars really is.
this reminds me of dr. evil when he's demanding his ransom.
What record business was he trying to start? Sony BMG?
If he was white I'll bet they would have just cashed it without question.
Didn't the President try doing something like this with the national debt?
Let this guy go!
He looks pretty dumb. Maybe he wanted an xbox 360 and couldn't write it on the check.
This is clearly a case of politically motivated racial oppression by the Zionist Occupation Government and the police state they have created for us, "the people" to exist in.
What kind of world do we live in when a man can't cash a simple check for $360 billion to start up a record company anymore?
That's it, I'm grabbing my gas mask and tinfoil and living in the forest.
@chartrule: Check the Consumerist deals tomorrow for a sarcasm detector. Yours might be on the fritz.
This is the textbook example of someone being "nucking futs". Fool.
i just like the expression on his face. it so clearly says, "i'm proud to be stupid."
We have a winner in the stupidest criminal ever contest. This beats the woman who tried to use a phony $1 million bill at WalMart, and the guy covered in blood who went to WalMart looking for trash bags.
What a freaking idiot...
@homerjay: I have to say that they still wouldn't have taken it. No sensible bank teller would take a $360 billion dollar check without questioning it.
brilliant.
just brilliant.
YOU! OUT OF THE GENE POOL!
I'm laughing so hard I'm crying....
@Papa Midnight: Nope. Take one White guy, in a expensive looking suit, to a bank in a fare-do-well town/area, and it would pass without a hitch, if the guy can keep his cool.
He should have taken it to Ohio to one of those payday loan/check cashing outfits. I'm sure they would have cashed it for him just for the good publicity and only charged him $160,000,000,000.00 in fees!
When are news people going to realize we could care less what the criminal looks like. I want to see the check. I want to see the 1 million dollar bill. I want to see the 200 dollar bill. I rejoice in seeing exactly how far they go in trying to make it look "legit". B/c is billion is spelled "billyun", we would all laugh, wouldn't we?
Shoulda gone for $360 million. Yeah, that would have worked.
Shoulda gone with three hundred and sixty billion $1.00 checks - that would have been the ticket.
Seriously: why was he arrested?
His offense is so utterly preposterous as to be ... not credible in the least. The CORRECT response would have been "quit bothering us, kid. Now, get outta here".
The only ones stupider than Charlie Fuller are the people who were concerned about his check being anything other than a pathos ridden farce.
Reminds me of the guy who tried to get filled a prescription written on a slip from a stolen prescription pad.
The genius had written on it, "1 lb mofeen".
(I just love calling it mofeen now.)
@homerjay:
What? White people can cash checks for a few hundred billion dollars without question? SWEET! My money problems are over! Shortly after the bank opens, I'll be on my way to Cancun.
White people can cash big checks without question? Where? Before I had an account at one of our local banks they would let me cash paychecks there because the company they were from has an account there. But the one time I tried to get them to cash a measly $4.00 check from an online survey company and they told me "No!"
The judge will be linient, as long as he agrees NOT TO REPRODUCE!
*cough*
That would be Fort Worth
*cough*
Now if they can only catch the idiot who spent our $3 Trillion surplus and left us with a $9.4 Trillion national debt....
@mizmoose:
I wanted to see that MOFEEN story and googled it... I think it is an urban legend since every medical student posts their own version. 1 Kilo or 10 pounds, this story has been making it's rounds for years!
I just keep giggling!
this guy is almost as dumb as people who don't get their kids vaccinated against the measles.
Did you know that if you search for the string "360 check" on the Dallas Morning News site, you can view all of their internal check disbursement spreadsheets, with check numbers, charged accounts, etc.?
Looks like a sysadmin is going to lose his job.
FAIL.
Did three different posters really think HomerJay was being sincere? What is happening to the Internet? They're apparently just letting anyone on these days.
He must have been having a great day. 360 Billion in check, weed and a gun... I wish I had that kind of a day now and then.
My dog is smarter than this guy. No, really, he is...
Back to the jungle with this asshat.
Dumbest things I have seen or heard this week. Talk about greedy! 36 BLN!?!? Do that many zeros fit on a check?!
@ceokhan:
I think the excess zeros spilled over to the back side of the check, or maybe he made a cute little pyramid out of them
Did you know that if you search for the string "360 check" on the Dallas Morning News site, you can view all of their internal check disbursement spreadsheets
I did not, but now I do!
They've got a bunch of XLS files in the "News Articles" category, for some reason. All wide open to the public Internet.
Excelsior!
They asked the person if she wrote a 360 billion dollar check? And didn't bother to kick the guy out? Man that's stupid.
poor fella... must be hard to be born into this world without a brain.
@RapperMC: They all need that sarcasm detector on today's morning deals...
@Papa Midnight: We actually had a guy cash a check for 20 mil in Jersey
Even Bill Gates could not write one that big.
@mizmoose:
Mofeen! brilliant!
(I used to work in a dual-diagnosis group home. Med-administration was *fun* believe me.)
@betatron:
Well the the pistol and weed are 2 reasons. Terrible attempt at bank fraud just tertiary.
"Mama said I could open up muh record sto' bish!"
Like my grandfather used to say, "Life's hard. It's even harder when your stupid"
Haha, what a dumbass...banking at Chase.