Police: Man tried to pay for $476 of stuff at Walmart with $1M bill he insisted was real

By Associated Press

1:57 PM CST, December 31, 2011

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Do you have change for a million-dollar bill?

Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart.

Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal that 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items. Store employees called police after his insistence that the bill was legit, and Fuller was arrested.

The largest bill in circulation is $100. The government stopped making bills of up to $10,000 in 1969.

Fuller was charged with attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument. He is in jail on a $17,500 bond, and it isn’t clear if he has an attorney. He is scheduled to be in court Tuesday.

Goddess Note:  Forgery is signing someone else’s name to a document, uttering is the actual presenting of that document to someone else.  If you sign a stolen check, give it to me, and I cash it, you are guilty of forgery, and I am guilty of uttering.  Putting counterfeit money into circulation would also be considered uttering.

 and i feel great when I can just score overage at the Mart…