Dallas to… $360 Billion! (And no state income tax.)
Three hundred and sixty billion? Even Exxon Mobil, whose $10.9 quarterly profit just disappointed Wall Street, doesn’t have that kind of cash on hand.
So we’re not sure what this fellow was thinking. From the Dallas Morning News:
A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said.Charles Ray Fuller, 21, of Crowley, was arrested on April 22 on an accusation of forgery, police said….
The personal check was not made out to Mr. Fuller and when the bank contacted the check owner, the woman said she did not write a check for $360 billion.
‘Cause overdraft fees are a bitch.
Quips our tipster: “[T]he dollar amount reminds me of something in the range of what Jonathan Lee Riches looks for. Perhaps JLR can represent him.”
Man accused of trying to cash check for $360,000,000,000 [Dallas Morning News]
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Sutherland to Layoffs and $360,000,000,000 !!!
Man I need a girlfriend whose mom is loaded like that.
This is the funniest crime in the history of crime. I can just see him getting excited about the POSSIBILITY of it even working, money signs flashing in his eyes . . . Genius.
what does sutherland have to do with 360 billion / layoffs / dr. evil ???
Texas stinks. I wouldn't live there for $360 billion. Honestly, could a place be any more backward?
Lat - your headline should at least read "Fort Worth to $360 Billion" since that was where this fool actually tried to cash this check. Just because you got your tip from the Dallas paper doesn't mean it happened in Dallas. For the record, I used to live in Fort Worth. I now live in Dallas. They are both nice, but they are not the same city.
3:48: Who cares? Dallas and Fort Worth are the same thing. It's comments like yours that makes you people so amusing to us northerners.
brotha just wanted to start a record label like his man Jay-z.. ain't nothin wrong with that!
Dallas is a significant legal market. Fort Worth is not.
Anyway, isn't DFW one metropolitan area? Like Minneapolis / St. Paul, Tampa / St. Petersburg, etc.?
3:56, DFW is probably more analogous to San Francisco-Silicon Valley or LA-Orange County--i.e., far enough away to be a pain and maybe justify another office.
DFW is all the same metroplex.
Though Fort Worth has a different culture than Dallas, both cities populations are counted the same.
4:09 - I guarantee that Dallas does not count Fort Worth's residents as part of its "population" (at least not anymore than New York City counts, say, Trenton, NJ residents as living in NYC). 3:56 is correct - the large regional Texas firms (Haynes & Boon, Jackson Walker, etc.) have a smaller office in Fort Worth in addition to their Dallas office.
As if check amount wasn't evidence of the guy's stupidity, article notes that he's accused of unlawful carrying of a weapon and possession of marijuana. Trifecta!
This man is an excellent example of what the state of Texas' education system is producing. (As if GWB wasn't enough!)
He may as well have written the check for a bajillion dollars. How funny.
Did a little math. If in some fantasy world he could cash a check that big, and they gave it to him in hundreds, it would weight about 8,000,000 pounds. He would need around 120 semis carrying the maximum legal weight to haul it all off.
weigh, not weight
stupid typos
Dear Texas Haters,
It's actually not a bad place to live and/or practice law. You can make the same salary as on the east and west coast, there's no state income tax, cost of living is significantly lower, weather's usually good, and there are more fortune 500 headquarters here than any other state. Further, there are hilariously stupid criminals to keep us all entertained. I'm just sayin' . . .
As a native Texan, I'd like to add that Fort Worth and Dallas are basically the same. They're like the rest of Texas (minus Austin): total, complete sh*tholes. There's a reason the cost of living is lower: it's called supply and demand.
4:47 - Though I mostly agree with your overall point, GWB is emphatically NOT a product of the Texas educational system. He spent most of his Texas grade school years in private schools, with admission "purchased" by his grandfather's connections, returned to his birthplace for college, and then went AWOL to go to HBS. All of these stages of education occurred solely through family connections at private educational institutions. He did apply to UTexas Law school, from which he was resoundingly denied admission. Of course, your larger point stands for multiple reasons, one of which is that GWB himself helped destroy the Texas educational system with the perfect storm of onerous, irrelevant testing requirements and crippling funding reductions.
As a native New Yorker, I think 5:45 is a douche and wish he would move back to Texas.
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