September 15, 2003

We Like Broccoli (or "Stupid Human Tricks")

(Stolen from The Smoking Gun)

SEPTEMBER 12--North Carolina cops are searching for a guy who successfully passed a $200 bill bearing George W. Bush's portrait and a drawing of the White House complete with lawn signs reading "We like ice cream" and "USA deserves a tax cut." The phony Bush bill--a copy of which you'll find below--was presented to a cashier at a Food Lion in Roanoke Rapids on September 6 by an unidentified male who was seeking to pay for $150 in groceries. Remarkably, the cashier accepted the counterfeit note and gave the man $50 change. In a separate incident involving a different perp, Roanoke Rapids cops Tuesday arrested Michael Harris, 24, for attempting last month to pass an identical $200 Bush bill at a convenience store.

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This raises several questions. Okay, it raises one question. How retarded do you have to be to accept a $200 bill for payment? Now if this was a decent fake bill I could almost understand it. After all, there are very few cashiers at Food Lion who have ever seen a bill larger than $100. But this was not a decent fake bill - this was a fake bill that was an obvious joke. It has George Whatever Bush on it. It is signed by Ronald Reagan. Ronald Frikkin' Reagan! The reverse side has lawn signs at the White House with such gems as "We Like Broccoli", "We Like Ice Cream" and "No More Scandals".

So Food Lion is out $200 and hopefully one employee. I say hopefully regarding the employee but I'm actually not that hopeful. Chances are the idiot who accepted a $200 bill is still working at Food Lion. I mean, we're talking about a company with such woeful Human Resources that they hired someone dumb enough to accept a $200 bill. You can't take on faith that such a company would take an obvious step like firing a moron who accepts a $200 bill.

Of course the worst thing about all of this is far more personal. Worse than the expose on corporate idiocy. Worse than revealing the rampant idiocy prevalent in our work force. Worse even than wasting several minutes of your time on this post. No, the worst thing about this exposure on the fake $200 Bush Bill is that it's going to make it that much harder for me to pass off my $300 Ashcroft Bills.

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