How NOT to counterfeit money...

[The_Penguin]

A keen employee at a downtown bar helped police link a Lafayette man with several counterfeit bills being passed in town.

The dead giveaway that the money was fake? Abraham Lincoln's face, instead of Benjamin Franklin's, reflected on the side of a $100 bill.

Earl H. Devine, 22, is charged with four counts of forgery and four counts of theft, accused of using the counterfeit money last month at Chumley's in Lafayette and two Village Bottle Shoppe stores in West Lafayette.

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http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/NEWS/508110334/-1/ARCHIVE

Morons at their finest. He should be given a darwin award in finance.

[patrickt]

He should get a Darwin Award? How about the idiots that took the bills with no question asked.

[The_Penguin]

He should get a Darwin Award? How about the idiots that took the bills with no question asked.
They can be included too.

[billygardener]

but he still can spawn. isnt that a criterion for a darwin award to be given?

[Dangerrmouse]

Then there was the master forger who accidentally made an eighteen-euro note. Rather than waste it, he took it with him to Ireland on holiday, and in the first pub he came to, asked if they had change for it. "Certainly sir!" the barman replied, "would you prefer two nines, or three sixes?"

[JoeR]

To win a Darwin award you need to take yourself out of the gene-pool, usually by death.