Re:The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of go...
by jjeaff on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:59PM
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That sounds insane. Did no one just do a quick Google search and see that you can buy them all day long all over the internet? I think we need some more details on why they were going through your wallet and how and why they even considered a charge in this case.
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Re:The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of go...
by kingcharles on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:07AM
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I was arrested for something totally unrelated. It was only later my lawyer showed me a piece of paper one day titled 'ILLINOIS STATE CRIME LAB' which detailed the analysis they had done. There were like 9 factors they analyze fake currency on (e.g. paper, ink, metal strip, holograms, hidden dots, etc) and my bill matched for 8 of the 9, which is what prompted the comment about it being such a sophisticated fake, I guess.
I'll try and get a copy. This was 8 years ago, but the lab will probably still have a copy. I felt like Dr Evil... one hundred trillion! All I could think of was this skit: