http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?...mp;in_page_id=2

Forger too bad at forgery to be guilty of forgery

An Argentine man who tried to use two counterfeit bills has been found innocent - because he was so bad at forgery. A federal court in Buenos Aires says the forged bills presented by Marcos Ribles were 'so clumsy and crude' that 'they could not be accepted by most people.' The court says the 65-year-old man tried to pass a false 100-peso note, nominally worth about £16, as well as a false U.S. $50 bill. Judges say the counterfeit bills had such shoddy printing and poor-quality paper that nobody could be fooled.

I like it


Wonder if that would work in Australia. In pubs here there have been people passing off very crude plastic type papers printed to look like money. We have polymer notes here and these are not even close but they are used in the dark when people are half drunk and sometimes it works.

I wish I could see the notes. An NPR show joked that "Hello Kitty" was on the note.