You're peein' (Scrooge's Counterfeit Money) [OT]

[Gregory R. Ball]

> The truth is, however, that Scrooge doesn't have guilders or Euros in
> his money bin, but dollars, which are never withdrawn from circulation.
> Speaking of which, I recently read that as much as 30% of the dollar
> bills in circulation may be counterfeit. Does this mean that 30% of
> uncle Scrooge's money could be counterfeit? Ye cats and little kittens!

Well, every time cash goes through the federal reserve stations (all 
banks send their money there) it is sorted and the counterfeit bills are 
automatically removed and sent to the secret service.  Mangled/mutilated 
bills are also removed and shredded.  Older money is automatically 
recognized and shredded.  They destroy millions and millions of dollars 
at each station each day!  You can even buy some shredded money bricks as 
souveniers (although trying to reassemble is fruitless...after 20 hours 
of effort, a friend of mine realized that his ONE shredded bill in an 
envelope had "VOID" stamped over it.)  When I visited there back in high 
school, the box they had with counterfeit bills was tiny--any most of 
them were either blatant photocopies or people doing stupid things such 
as cutting the corners off a 10 dollar bill and pasting them over the 1's 
on a one dollar bill.

I can't believe with Scrooge's nature he wouldn't check his money ^_^  
And any money received from a bank wouldn't be counterfeit...

Greg