This is True

Would You Like Fries with That?

Police are looking for the person who handed the clerk at a Dairy Queen in Danville, Ky., a $200 bill for $2.12 worth of food. The bill bore a portrait of President George W. Bush on the front and an oil well on the back, and the clerk paid out $197.88 in change. Police say they can only charge the passer with failure to pay for a purchase, since it was so obviously not real that a counterfeit charge wouldn’t stand up. Especially considering there is no such thing as a $200 bill in the U.S. (AP) ...That’s hardly a crime, considering Dairy Queen’s food isn’t real either.


Publication Date: 18 February 2001

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 7.