Dubya Dollars

[BrainyBeauty]

Dairy Queen- home of Hot Eats Cool Treats and Stupid As Sin employees apparently.

I can't find a bigger picture on the net but on tv this was hysterical!

Phony $200 bill with Bush picture used in Kentucky
DANVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Talk about funny money.

Police in Kentucky are looking for a customer who succeeded in paying for a $2 order at a fast-food restaurant with a phony $200 bill featuring a picture of President George W. Bush and a depiction of the White House with a lawn sign saying, "We like broccoli."

Authorities say the female cashier at a Dairy Queen in Danville even gave the culprit $198 in real money as change.

"Essentially, the story is that somebody at a drive-in ordered some food and passed a $200 novelty deal with George Bush on it," Danville Police Detective Bob Williamson said.

"At a distance it looks like a real bill, it's got the green color," Williamson said when asked how the cashier possibly could mistake it for genuine money.

The cartoonish bill was accepted Sunday evening by the Dairy Queen cashier despite having Bush on one side and an oil well on the other. The phony bill also depicted the White House lawn with yard signs reading "U.S. deserves a tax cut," "No more scandals" and "We like broccoli," the last apparently referring to Bush's father's admitted dislike for the vegetable.

No U.S. currency has a picture of Bush, let alone a reference to liking broccoli.

Because there is no actual $200 currency, the culprit could face a charge of theft by deception but not counterfeiting, Williamson said.

16:01 01-30-01

http://more.abcnews.go.com/media/us/images/ho_gwbush_010130_h.jpg



OK- so how dumb is this kid? How dumb was the manager or HR person who hired her? Too funny!

[Edited by BrainyBeauty on 01-30-2001 at 03:41 PM]

 

[jcgirl]

ROFLOL. Omg, she should wear a sign.....

 

[Todd]

That is just to sad and yet to funny. I worked as a cashier for vairous establishments and some of the primary training was money handling and identification of counterfiet money at a glance and feel. Basic common sense should dictate to one that there is no 200$ or at least enough of a flag to ask another employee about the bill.

 

[Mustang Sally]

There's a new Canadian $10 bill. I was cashier-ing Saturday when I saw one for the first time. It looks like it can't possibly be real! I almost asked "what is this??" until I remembered hearing about a new bill coming out. It's still purple, and it still has Sir John A. Macdonald's picture on it, but it's just weird. And it doesn't match the other bills anymore. Why'd they do that?

 

[DarkAngel]

the 5 is later this year.. 20, 50 100 next yesar

 

[TN_Vixen]

Frankly, this doesn't surprise me too much

b/c often I come across cashiers at the grocers or cashiers at fast food restaurants that canNOT for the life of them count change! Forget even looking at the f'n bill to determine if it is a fake, let's talk about basic addition and subtraction skills, folks!

I was dumfounded the other day when I went into Walgreens to buy a simple 1.95 product. With tax it was what? A total of maybe $2.08? $2.09? The cashier rang it up incorrectly and instead of just counting out my change he just stood there perplexed for like 5 solid minutes until he located a calculator, inputted the figures and determined the change. AMAZING. Jeeze.

and we wonder why Bush is in office? hehe

 

[BrainyBeauty]

Do not pass go and do NOT collect $200!!!

MSally, I think that all of the new US currency looks fake too. Like it belongs in a Monopoly game.

 

[Bigdog]

A few questions

Why is someone who doesn't know the US monetary units working a register?

Why did the register even have $198 to give as change? Shouldn't some of that been culled off to the safe?

Since when do fast food places take large bills? No place around here takes anything over $20.

I have a hunch this story will be revealed as as an elaborate joke somewhere down the road.

 

[Angel]

Actually I worked at McD's from 97 to 2000, and we DID accept 100's if we could change them. Owner said we had to, to please the customer.
And yes, the money is supposed to be culled into the safe, but that is not possible during a rush when the manager is required to be on the floor(And at MY Store HAD to be to keep it running smoothly)

 

[Mustang Sally]

At the store I worked at the cash register started prompting us to call a supervisor for a cash pick-up once it contained $1,500. That was a department store, so probably different than a fast food joint, but I imagine cash adds up pretty fast. Like Angel said, when it's busy, there just isn't time to do those things.

 

[Angel]

Exactly. And right when you NEED to do them, you just get stomped all over unexpectedly. I HATED working fast food. Underpaid, overworked and underappreciated. Don't be too hard on the girl. Maybe it was her first job, inexperienced and if she was busy and she was inexperienced she probably didn't realize it. I'm sure she feels like shit, and it'll probably make her afraid to work.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

I like to carry $2.00 bills which people love getting, but are always surprised that they are still around. It is amazing that with as standardized as our currency is, that people do not know all of the bills. It's not like its Hong Kong where every note is issued by a different bank.

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: Frankly, this doesn't surprise me too much

b/c often I come across cashiers at the grocers or cashiers at fast food restaurants that canNOT for the life of them count change! Forget even looking at the f'n bill to determine if it is a fake, let's talk about basic addition and subtraction skills, folks!

I've usually calculated the bill (especially if I'm buying something on sale for "xx percent off") and the change in my head before I hand over my money. More often than not, I just tell the cashier the correct change amount to speed things up. They usually look at me with that "gee, how did you do that" expression on their face. Drives me crazy when they can't do basic math.

 

[willywanker]

An update from a Kentuckian:

The manager is now saying that they only gave 98 dollars change, mistaked for 100 dollar bill which seems even worse to me.

Police say bill is so fake looking they will not be seeking conterfiet charges. They think it may have actually started as a joke, someone just giving the bill for a laugh, but seeing a way to make 98 bucks when it was accepted.

And please, no dumb hillbilly jokes please.

 

[Siren]

What store was this, I need to make some quick cash....

 

[Silverlily]

The employee in question is what is referred to as a HOOD (hired out of desperation). So many companies, retail and fast food especially, have such pathetic training programs, I'm not that surprised this happened.

Having said that, I'm ROTFLMMFAO!

 

[BrainyBeauty]

TnVix and Cheyenne

It is sad but the same thing happened to me today (gosh this sounds like the beginning of a great Penthouse Forum letter doesn't it?!!!)

I bought a cup of coffee and a paper. Total was $1.49. I gave the cashier a dollar bill, two quarters and four pennies. Immediately she got a puzzled look on her face and then shoved the 4 pennies back at me. I decided not to say anything but, instead, pushed the 4 cents back at her. I prepared for what was coming and she didn't disappoint... "Lady this is the wrong amount of money."

Still looking and acting as if she had mistakenly ended up in a classroom for Quantum physics instead of cosmetology 101, I explained that I preferred receiving a nickel in change instead of a penny. I know it was beyond her grasp but it so typifies what is wrong with our educational system today. We're graduating people who cannot perform the most basic mathematical functions. People who have no concept of how to make change unless the cash register literally spells it out for them.

Fast food restaurants would be a lot faster and convenience stores would be a lot more convenient if people learned how to add, subtract and discern real currency from obviously manufactured fake bills! LOL

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Several notes here . . .

I manage a Fsst Food Restuarant right now (Yes OK, McD's) and I've got to say that:

• our education in New Zealand sucks as bad as anywhere else in the world, some of my staff can't handle it if they put $45 in as cash accepted rather than $4.50. Many struggle with customers looking for nice round change like Brainy Beauty
• In a rush I can understand exactly how this would be missed, but that's no excuse. At least she didn't make change for $200.
• There are times when I clear down $2200 from the drive thu registre at the end of the night 'cause I haven't been able to do it at any other time (about halve that for $US.) Making change would have been easy.
• The restuarant manager is a dumb ass if they don't have a policy for all large (ie $50 and up) to be acceptd only with manager authorisation. Having said that, we short cut it on occasion, must follow up.
• The industry forces us to hire Madame Pandoras BBTN just to make up numbers. Staff turn over is phenominal, the ablity to train is restricted by the ability to hold people long enough for them to be trainers. Te pay and conditions that the market demands create the situation.

Go easy on them all, it's not a fun job despite the fact that some of them are imbecels.