Nebraska man tries to open bank account with fake $1M bill

[Floyd R. Turbo]

LINCOLN, NEB.
Police are searching for a man who walked into a bank in Nebraska this week and tried to open a checking account with a fake $1 million bill.

Staff at the Pinnacle Bank branch in Lincoln reported the Monday morning incident to police. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that bank employees say the man was adamant that the bill was real despite tellers' attempts to convince him otherwise.

The man eventually left with the bill, but without a new account.

Police are reviewing surveillance video to try to identify the man. Police say they want to check on his welfare and make sure he was not the victim of a crime.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird/article236790698.html#storylink=cpy

[Cartoonist]

1. Was the man white?

I think the whole incident would have gone down differently had he been a person of color. The police certainly wouldn't have considered him to be a victim. They'd have an APB out on him.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. He should have at least been given a toaster. NT

[magicarpet]

3. .... and a free checking account with no charge ATM.

[d_r]

4. It only

Has to work one time

[Aristus]

5. I had something similar happen back when I worked in a bank.

Someone brought in a Post-It-style note square with a reproduction of a $50 bill on it. The note was smaller than a bank note, and had nothing on the back. But the person insisted it was legal tender, and wanted to open an account with it. I finally managed to convince her that it had no more value that a sheet of Kleenex, and she left.

[DFW]

6. I get those things shown to me all the time over here

From Poland to Spain. At one time, someone got a hold of some genuine 1923 large size $1 bills, and manipulated them into $1 million bills. Every once in a blue moon, someone finds one and really thinks God smiled on them this day.

At least in Nebraska, they didn't fall for it.

One time in Kansas (I think it was Kansas), a woman found a banknote from the 1923-1924 German inflation era. That was from the famous time when people used to bring a wheelbarrow full of million mark notes to try and negotiate for a loaf of bread. The woman walked into a bank and asked what she could get for a million German marks. She presented the old banknote, and the bank branch called Chicago for a quote on one million German marks. The branch in Chicago, not figuring any of their branches, even in Kansas, would be talking about anything other than Deutsche Mark, which was the German currency at the time (1980s or so), and quoted $44,000 plus change. Delighted, the woman agreed to the quote, actually got the $44,000 in her account from the branch, and left on a tour around the world the next day (may have been a day later, I don't recall). When she got back, she received the bad news. She had to pay back the money she used for her world tour, plus the rest of what was left over from the $44.000, but no charges of fraud were filed, since it was obviously the bank's error.