When Paul Fischer checked his bank account Friday night, he had a happy surprise. His balance had exploded to $88,888,888,888.88. A very lucky number indeed, and close to $89 billion. Of course, the balance was a technical error by SunTrust Bank, which quickly fixed the problem. It also may have occurred in other accounts. “You [...]
January 19, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police have arrested a Lebanese man allegedly carrying fake currency with a face value of $66 million after he tipped a hotel staff with a $500 note, an official said. The largest U.S. note currently in wide circulation is a $100 bill. But police found bundles of $1 million, $100,000 [...]
December 30, 2009
(Editor’s Note: This REPRINT from HuffPost represents a deviation from the normal weird; this certainly does not qualify as weird in my book. It is simply one of the most brilliant ideas I’ve heard in quite some time and want to do my part in moving it along. Happy 2010! — Lin) Move Your Money: [...]
December 29, 2009
SELMA, Ind. – Police say a fifth-grader handed out about $300 to others on the bus ride to his eastern Indiana school. Problem is, they say, the cash was among some $10,000 he took from his grandparents’ safe. Delaware County Sheriff George Sheridan says the boy was riding the bus to Selma Elementary School when [...]
November 21, 2009
EMMITSBURG, Md. — Operators of a Catholic shrine in Maryland thought they had been blessed with a big donation this month when a worker found $40,000 worth of rare coins on the grounds. But officials at Mount St. Mary’s University said Wednesday that the bags of money had only been left at the National Shrine [...]
November 1, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian legislators in the poor conservative Muslim northeastern state of Kelantan should marry single mothers to help care for their children, a state representative suggested. The state’s family and health committee chairwoman Wan Ubaidah Omar said that legislators should be awarded prizes for increasing their “quota” of wives. “What I mean by [...]
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