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(Message started by: Bamaboys on Sep 2nd, 2006, 11:34pm)
Title: Perfect Copy
Post by Bamaboys on Sep 2nd, 2006, 11:34pm
A man can make perfect counterfeit bills. They look exactly like real ones, they're made of exactly the same materials, made the same way, everything. So perfect, one could pretty much call them real bills. Anyway, one day, he successfully makes a perfect copy of another bill. However, he gets caught when he tries to use the copy. How is this possible?
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by BNC on Sep 3rd, 2006, 12:17am
Well, when you copies, you should make sure [hide]you're not copying other, less perfect, counterfeit money[/hide].
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by graphia on Sep 3rd, 2006, 2:30pm
You also shouldn't [hide]perfectly copy the serial number[/hide]
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by Bamaboys on Sep 3rd, 2006, 8:34pm

on 09/03/06 at 00:17:16, BNC wrote:
Well, when you copies, you should make sure [hide]you're not copying other, less perfect, counterfeit money[/hide].


The bills were real. At least, the ones he was copying.


on 09/03/06 at 14:30:07, graphia wrote:
You also shouldn't [hide]perfectly copy the serial number[/hide]


The serial numbers were probably the only think that wasn't perfectly copied. He wasn't dumb enough to make that mistake, though he was dumb enough to make the mistake he did. Which is pretty dumb,anyway.
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by cchris on Sep 3rd, 2006, 9:13pm
I'd say [hide]he attempts to insert it into some sort of machine.[/hide] Maybe not, but could be copying counterfeit $16 bills, like an actual criminal tried to do once.

Or, [hide]I'd make sure to copy both sides, if I were this guy.[/hide]
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by Bamaboys on Sep 3rd, 2006, 9:28pm

on 09/03/06 at 21:13:31, cchris wrote:
I'd say [hide]he attempts to insert it into some sort of machine.[/hide]


He gave the bills to a person, not a machine.


on 09/03/06 at 21:13:31, cchris wrote:
Or, [hide]I'd make sure to copy both sides, if I were this guidey.[/hide]


He copied both sides


on 09/03/06 at 21:13:31, cchris wrote:
Maybe not, but could be copying counterfeit $16 bills, like an actual criminal tried to do once.  


Alright, I'll admit defeat. I've tried and tried, but I can't come up with a good riddle. You got it.
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by BNC on Sep 3rd, 2006, 11:45pm

on 09/03/06 at 21:28:45, Bamaboys wrote:

Alright, I'll admit defeat. I've tried and tried, but I can't come up with a good riddle. You got it.



Huh ??? You said he copied real bills.
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by Grimbal on Sep 4th, 2006, 1:28am
And you said he wasn't dumb enough to make the mistake of copying the serial number.  But for copying $16 bills?

I guess that when he went to the shop asking to change the $16 note for some smaller change, the shop owner asked "and do you want $8 notes or $4 coins?".

Another possibility: he got arrested not for the fake bill but because he tried to buy drugs with it.
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by graphia on Sep 4th, 2006, 3:50am
One of his counterfeits got wrinkled before he tried to stick it in a machine maybe? :P
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by Bamaboys on Sep 4th, 2006, 12:52pm

on 09/03/06 at 23:45:52, BNC wrote:
Huh ??? You said he copied real bills.


The actual bills he was copying were $1,000. Cchris's answer was close enough, so I gave it to him.
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by alien on Sep 4th, 2006, 1:53pm
He [hide]tried to bribe the policeman, since he parked in the handicapped zone. Bribe is illegal, and he is out of luck because this is one conscious officer of the law.[/hide]  ;)
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by cchris on Sep 4th, 2006, 6:30pm
Wow, I was actually not thinking that was a real answer, because I figured real bills meant they could be spent. As far as I know, you can use a $2 bill, even though they are far out of print. But I suppose having a crisp $1000 bill is suspicious.
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by Weazel on Sep 4th, 2006, 11:01pm
$2 bills are still in print, and the amount printed depends on supply -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_two_dollar_bill
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/denominations.shtml#q5
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by cchris on Sep 5th, 2006, 2:57pm
Well then, three. But basically an out-of-print bill.
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by Icarus on Sep 8th, 2006, 5:40pm
$16 bill is bad enough, but New Of the Weird reported awhile back on someone who tried to pass off a $1 billion bill - created in blue ink on lined notebook paper!
Title: Re: Perfect Copy
Post by Weazel on Sep 10th, 2006, 8:17am

on 09/05/06 at 14:57:37, cchris wrote:
Well then, three. But basically an out-of-print bill.
Three dollar bills were never in print. The earlier example of 1000 dollar bills was in print in the past though.


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