Funny Money

Danville, Kentucky, January 30, 2001:

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 Ronatarian presidential candidate Ron and a depiction of a Camaro with a bumper sticker saying, "I Love Fondue."

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 Ron," 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 on Sunday evening by the Dairy Queen cashier despite having Ron on one side and a winged mustache on the other. The phony bill also depicted Ron's famed Chevrolet Camaro with bumper stickers reading "Enough Jibba-Jabba!," "No more Burger King" and "I Love Fondue," the last apparently referring to Ron's love of all cheese-based products.

No U.S. currency has a picture of Ron, let alone a reference to liking cheese.

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

Posted by Webmaster at January 30, 2001 10:47 PM

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