You probably don't stand there with a ten dollar bill in your hand when you get the change at the Clip 'N' Go, but maybe you should take a quick glance.
Especially if you're the cashier at an Italian restaurant in New Jersey.
Check out this story about checking out the bills. Up in Gloucester Township, N.J. this past May, a local restaurant did become the scene of a counterfeit crime involving props.
Some wise cracker got a hold of some movie money and treated himself (and a date, I guess) to a big dinner at Villari’s Lakeside Restaurant up in Sicklerville on May 23. I hear he even went for the shrimp cocktail!
And why not; he was using money made to look right in the movies, but not in the cash register of a nice chow place.
They ran up a bill of $120 and left six of the bogus twenties. That's what irks me; they were too close-fisted to leave a tip, even with the fake bills! Cheesy.
Police say the guy seen on film walking into the eatery carrying the stack o' bucks was seen running away from the place after everyone had eaten their fill. And they say he might just be the guy they wish to arrest for several other counterfeit incidents in South Jersey.
It would be the perfect touch to put him in a fake jail until April Fool's Day, following, of course, a legal arrest, arraignment, and conviction at trial. New Jersey ain't Texas, you know.
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