From bangstyle.com

What a moron! Everyone knows Wal-Mart doesn’t keep that kind of cash lying around–that’s why I never use anything higher then a $30,000 bill there…this was a Wal-Mart not a Vegas casino. I don’t know why so many great stories start with, “So, this one time at Wal-Mart,” but here we go.

53-year-old Michael Fuller must’ve felt a little taller than usual when he strutted into the Wal-Mart in Lexington North Carolina with his $1 million-dollar bill just burning a hole in his pocket. The clerk rang up his items, which included a vacuum cleaner and a microwave, to a total of $476 and Fuller casually handed the clerk the million-dollar bill and patiently awaited his change. Unfortunately for Fuller, this hawkeyed forgery expert who happened to be working the cash register was miraculously able to spot the fake. What alerted him? Did Fuller get the watermarks wrong? Was Mickey Mouse on it? When the clerk questioned Fuller, he began arguing and insisting that it was real.

Wal-Mart promptly called the police… and Fuller stuck around! I guess he was figuring the police would be able to verify that he had Mission Impossible’d the bill from the Treasury or whatever story he told the clerk.

Common sense aside, if he had done a simple search he would have known that the largest bill currently in circulation is $100. The US government hasn’t printed anything larger since 1969, when they discontinued the $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills due to a lack of public use.

According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Fuller was arrested and charged with, “Attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument,” which are both felonies. He is being held at the Davidson County Jail and his bond is set at $17,500. I assume he will not be paying in cash. I’m not sure which makes him more stupid, the fact that he thought he would be able to pass off a $1 million dollar bill, or that Wal-Mart would actually hand him over $900,000 in change.

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http://www.bangstyle.com/2012/01/wal-mart-million-dollar-bill/