stupid, greedy, dishonest.

"I wouldn't picture him doing something that stupid"

She wasn't looking at THIS picture when she said that, obviously. Sharpest knife in the drawer he ain't. I'd not pick him out in a phd parade for sure.

Maybe he only wanted 360,000 but was unsure as to how many zeros that required..

thus adding 6 more for good measure.

This guy has made my day.

...with US$360G I think I'd be worrying about where my next margarita was coming from too, but not a lot else.

Shurely? It's the only way I can get my head round stupidity that egregious. But to be packing heat and have your stash on you? I suppose it validates his gangsta rep. Maybe he was trying to rob the place, but decided not to and couldn't just say to the teller, "Um, sorry, I forgot my..." and bolt.

Are we talking UK billion or US billion? If I'm not mistaken, or billion (UK) is one more zero

I've seen petrol pumps with bigger prices than that.

There was a similar case in Nigeria a few years back where a guy got overly abitious forging a payroll cheque.

3 more zeroes = nice little forgery

9 more zeroes = guaranteed jailtime

@M Brown: the UK billion is 3 more zeroes although UK bureaucratese switched to the American version in the 70s, which is a shame as US 1000 trillion was called a billiard.

you're mistaken.

US billion is 10^^9 UK billion was 10^^12 - but the US billion has prevailed, we need a common name for 10^9. the Trillion is therefore 10^12, beyond that there are quadrillions and quintillions, but they're only for wide-eyed americans, anything not to do with money should use standard form after it gets into the billions.

Regardless of the "Official" definition, I (I'm in the UK) have ALWAYS used 1,000,000,000 as "One Billion". I always thought the US Billion was 100,000,000. Add three zeros to "my" billion to get one trillion and so on. That's the way I was taught as a kid and that's what I've always used. I've never even HEARD of a billion being one million millions - it's always been one thousand millions.

you state that the UK Billion is one thousand million, and that the US is different at one hundred million. This is clearly wrong, you have heard the US talking about a hundred million many times. no matter how young you are! However it is correct that The US Billion is different to the original UK Billion but both now use the US version (one Thousand Million. - Changed in 1970's)

the UK billion was one million million in the same way a million is a thousand thousands. The UK Trillion was a billion billions. simple sytem, just flawed that a thousand is not a hundred hundreds! consequently the US powers system was adopted 10^3(thousand) 10^6(million) 10^9(billion) 10^12(trillion) etc

(obviously including 10^0(ones) 10^1(tens) 10^2(hundreds))

"This is still used in the rest of Europe, but they too are relenting and allowing American culture to wash their own away."

In which countries is this happening? In Dutch, a "miljard" is 10^9 and there is no sign of this changing. When we speak English, we translate "miljard" as "billion".

This is one occassion the septic tanks have got it right - 1 billion is 1,000,000,000, or one thousand million. It simply makes sense to have a word to describe those extra 3 zeros after a million. The "UK billion" isn't useful and makes little sense, I'd be quite happy for it to be forgotten about. "Smithers, the amnesia ray!" The only people who seem to bring it up are those who rarely use the number. In the derivatives world billions are quite common and noone ever stops to question the number of zeros!

Abstinence only sex-education means only the dumbest breed. That and close proximity to Louisiana and Oklahoma also probably rubs off.

He wasn't trying to be dishonest but due to the fact that his eyes don't open all the way he simply grabbed the wrong check - he had planned to use a check from his personal account. Don't be too hard on him as it's not his fault.

Obviously trying to cash a check for 36 pence would raise suspicion. I mean who writes a check for such a ridiculously low amount of money?

But I suppose US dollars are still worth something in that country, so let's look at this another way. The bank actually phoned the account holder to find out if it was ok for them to cash the check? So if she'd said, 'yeah no problem, I wrote the check' they'd have given him the money?

Ok.. where is this bank? I'm going to cash a check for $400 billion.

"I keep telling you: The IQ of the USA is constant."

Speaking as an ashamed citizen of the USA, I think that period was typed prematurely. Surely what you really meant to say was 'I keep telling you: The IQ of the USA is constantly declining.' Interestingly, it seemed to have started happening right around the time we started pumping our classrooms full of computers.

What we need is a copy of the actual check to make sure all of this is proper and all that. Then we will know if the amount was properly announced to the public.

Of course, why don't we just use SI pre/suffixes?

Then it would be 360 Gigadollars. Me, I prefer the more obvious "$360E+9" which everyone knows is the same thing.

Ob. Carl Sagan: Billions and Billions.

What crack head teller would even think that some has that kind of liquid assets. how many companies can you think of that have that kind of cash laying around. If I was the teller I would of called the cops right away.

Bill Gates might have a few billion laying around.

"heh, only reason he only had a small amount of weed on him must be because he smoked the rest of it before going into the bank to cash a cheque for $360Bn"

I'll say! From the look of that pic, he's totally fucking WASTED!

Makes "Jim" from the series "Taxi" look positively compos mentis, doesn't he.