OT theft by deception OT

[Plymouthy Adams]

what does this say about the clerk..?

LYKENS, Pa. – Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a man they say sweet-talked a shop owner into accepting a fake $20 coin as payment for ice cream. Police said the man told the proprietor of Willow Tree Ice Cream on Friday evening that the coin was something the government has just begun issuing.

The shop is located about 25 miles northeast of Harrisburg in Dauphin County.

The suspect drove away in a teal-colored Dodge Caravan with Pennsylvania tags. He's described as short and stocky with curly black hair.

and as Jerry Seinfeld would say, NEWMAN

does this reflect on all Dodge Caravan owners'

[Joe Flanagan]

The clerk was probably some young high school kid, which makes it even worse. They ought to introduce the guy to a night stick.

[Captain Neon]

Since he stated that it was new US-issued coin, he's in DEEP trouble. He just committed a federal felony. The Secret Service does not look kindly upon such things.

Now if he were to tell the clerk that it was 1 oz. of sterling silver worth ~$12, then he would have been bartering. To state that it was legal tender is what will get him into trouble.

NORFED got themselves into trouble with their 1 oz. silver coins stating a value that was greater than silver contained therein.

[Joe Flanagan]

A short, curly-haired man driving around in a Dodge Caravan trying to swindle ice cream cones with phony $20 gold pieces. That's pretty weird, when you think about it.

[Captain Neon]

The article says nothing about them being $20 gold pieces. If I were to hazard a guess, the perpetrator is using the 1 oz. silver NORFED coins that say $20. His mistake is in telling the cashier that they are issued by the US government.

I bought a few of NORFED's silver certificates about 10 years ago that I gave as gifts for their curio factor. I never agreed with their MLM system that involved buying them for their silver value ~$5 in 2000 and then using them to barter for goods and services worth $10. When silver got close to $10/oz., NORFED began issuing 1 oz. silver coins that were denominated $20.

I recommend buying old US silver coins for any one wanting to buy a secure hedge against a falling US dollar. I think this fellow driving the Dodge Caravan is probably just an ignorant person that actually believed the coin was worth $20.

[Captain Neon]

Norm, you are probably thinking of the Ithaca Hour used in Ithaca, New York.

http://www.ithacahours.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours

Not quite my cup o' tea as it is a fiat currency, but a good idea none the less.

[radioguy7]

I once gave a young girl at a McDonald's drive thru window a Silver dollar in partial payment. She replied to me that it wasn't real and couldn't accept it. I had to have her manager come to the window and tell her it was real money.

What do they teach these kids in school?? don't they show them all forms of US currency that they might happen to encounter out in society?? A similar thing happened to my mother with a Susan B Anthony dollar.

[Captain Neon]

Was that a real 1 oz. Morgan or Peace silver dollar? I would have swapped that for a paper George in a second.

When my wife worked for Target, one of the cashier's didn't believe that the gold-toned Sacagawea/Presidential dollar coins were worth a WHOLE dollar. It truly is frightening how ignorant people in these united States are of their own currency.

[Niel Hoback]

What happened to the half dollar coin? Do they still make them? If so, where do they go?

[Young Ed]

I once gave a young girl at a McDonald's drive thru window a Silver dollar in partial payment. She replied to me that it wasn't real and couldn't accept it. I had to have her manager come to the window and tell her it was real money.

What do they teach these kids in school?? don't they show them all forms of US currency that they might happen to encounter out in society?? A similar thing happened to my mother with a Susan B Anthony dollar.

That happened at some sorta fast food place only the manager didn't believe the customer either and called the police. I believe that was over a $2 bill. The customer just waited patiently for the police to come tell the employee and the manager how dumb they were.

[Merle Coggins]

It all reminds me of the guy who made up a bunch of counterfeit $18 bills and was wondering how he was going to use them. So he decided he's first test them up in the hills of West Virginia. He stopped in to the first little store and asked the clerk of he could break a $18 bill. "Sho 'nuff", says the clerk. "Whatcha want, 2 - $9's, 3 - $6's, or 6 - $3's?

[Joe Flanagan]

The article says a FAKE $20 coin. And sorry, but the rest of it, curly hair, Dodge Caravan, ice cream cone, and all is weird. Just plain weird.

[Plymouthy Adams]

that was the Susan B. dollar Norm..the Kennedy half dollar was our only 50 cent piece at the time

[BobT-47P15]

This has nothing to do with currency.....but in yesterday's newspaper there

was an article telling about two women, one of whom dressed as a Wal Mart

employee, went to the back room, loaded up a large screen tv on a cart, and

wheeled it out to the car of the other woman. Then they drove off. Also

pulled the same trick in another area town. Crooks are more gutsy than

they used to be, or so it seems.

I'm sure many of the younger generation don't know about the slightly

different or odd forms of currency. You ever watch Jay Leno do his

"Jaywalking" thing.......and see how little younger folks know about

famous historical people or about our country in general.