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Mar. 10th, 2004 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupUnsettling breakfast reading in the Times today.
First, an article about city agents seizing six monkeys and a tarantula from some poor guy's apartment.
Next, a piece about a Masonic initiation rite gone bad. The culmination of being inducted into the Masons is to be shot at by a pistol with blanks. Apparently, this doesn't work so well when you get your guns mixed up.
But the best one was in the National Briefs:
GEORGIA: WISHFUL THINKING
A Wal-Mart customer in Covington was arrested Friday, accused of trying to use what appeared to be a $1 million bill. The police said the customer, Alice R. Pike, 35, tried to pay for $1,675 in goods with gift cards valued at $2.32, then tried with the bill. She has been charged with forgery. The highest currency in general circulation is the $10,000 bill. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing stopped printing bills above $100 in 1969, said Jim Marshall, a bureau spokesman.
It seems that Times writers have gone Jayson Blair one better, and just started lifting all their stories from News of the Weird.
First, an article about city agents seizing six monkeys and a tarantula from some poor guy's apartment.
Next, a piece about a Masonic initiation rite gone bad. The culmination of being inducted into the Masons is to be shot at by a pistol with blanks. Apparently, this doesn't work so well when you get your guns mixed up.
But the best one was in the National Briefs:
GEORGIA: WISHFUL THINKING
A Wal-Mart customer in Covington was arrested Friday, accused of trying to use what appeared to be a $1 million bill. The police said the customer, Alice R. Pike, 35, tried to pay for $1,675 in goods with gift cards valued at $2.32, then tried with the bill. She has been charged with forgery. The highest currency in general circulation is the $10,000 bill. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing stopped printing bills above $100 in 1969, said Jim Marshall, a bureau spokesman.
It seems that Times writers have gone Jayson Blair one better, and just started lifting all their stories from News of the Weird.
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Date: 2004-03-10 06:54 am (UTC)Um, I know what they mean, but I still would hardly call that general circulation. :-}
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Date: 2004-03-10 07:01 am (UTC)Still, the underlying story is so good. Why didn't they forge a bill for a zillion dollars while they were at it?
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Date: 2004-03-10 08:36 am (UTC)Wow, you've got to be pretty stupid to try something like that...