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Today's Idiot
2008-04-12
NY Man Tries Bogus Bill for Bail
HT AOSHQ
MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Police say it was no surprise a bogus $50 bill got a Long Island man arrested: He was trying to use it to pay his bail on a traffic charge. The transaction compounded Cyheam Forney's legal problems and landed him in jail.

Police say they spotted the 31-year-old Forney making an illegal left turn in Melville on Thursday and discovered his license had been suspended.

Forney was arrested on a misdemeanor suspended license charge—until officers said he proffered the counterfeit currency as bail money. He was being held early Friday on a felony charge of possessing a forged instrument.
nice job, genius
Posted by:Frank G

#1  Speaking of geniuses, Frank, consider this bright bulb. In 1997, Sam Frabian was arrested and charged with robbing vending machines in Andover, MD. The police felt sure they had solved a string of vending machine robberies when Frabian promptly paid his four hundred dollar bail--entirely in quarters.
Posted by: GK   2008-04-12 00:27  

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