Fake money
My dad bought a new scanner and printer, I know lets scan some money see what it comes out like, don't get me wrong - not planning on actually using it in shops and the like - just a quality control kind thing, see how good this printer/scanner actually is, printed it out, looked pretty realistic (on one side - never could get it to line up the other) anyways dad decides to take the money to work, goes to buy some lunch in the work canteen, takes out a £10 note, looks at it and goes "oh this one is dirty" and screws it up and throws it in the bin, lots of faces go :o (much to his amusement)
A bit later on (in a different department) he lights his cigarette with another £10 again more shocked faces
(This is when technology was quite new by the way, and when you could still smoke in buildings!)
( SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 23:56, 3 replies)

Wonder
Oh, that's just brilliant. Have a click!

They must have thought he was either mad, or won the lottery/pools/bingo.
(calamarain just invented dehydrated water, Fri 11 Jul 2008, 0:19, closed)

Hehehehehe!
One of my pals did something similar, but ended up passing the fake to one of his mates in a nightclub (it'd been screwed up, straightened out, loads of times so it felt ok) to pay for a round. Fortunately, he got away with it. It'd could involved various bouncer induced beatings otherwise.

Shame you can't do this anymore. Most photocopiers etc and most readily available graphics packages actually check the scan to see if it contains an 'image' that indicates you are trying to scan currency.
(TC, Fri 11 Jul 2008, 11:14, closed)

I've said this here before
but you can use photocopied money in pokie machines. The Department of Fair Trading actually warned us about a bunch of people doing it in Sydney when I was still managing bars.

The really smart licensee put the notice on the wall in the gaming cage facing the public, and I caught at least 4 people reading it before I moved it. Just make sure you're not under the security cameras.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Sat 12 Jul 2008, 6:11, closed)