Woman Buys Girl Scout Cookies From 10 Year Old With Fake $100 Bill

[matcom]

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TENINO — A 10-year-old Girl Scout was excited when a woman asked to buy 10 boxes of cookies from her Sunday, and she was more excited to be paid with a $100 bill.

But her excitement turned to dismay when the Scout’s mother realized the bill was a fake, and a day of raising money for Scout trips ended with a valuable lesson.

“Sometimes you can’t trust just anybody,” the Scout said.

Katie Lundquist and her mother, Michelle Lundquist, from Junior Girl Scouts Troop 594 of Rainier were wrapping up a day of cookie selling about 2:30 p.m. at Dave’s Market Place in Tenino when a woman asked to buy some cookies, Lundquist said.

“We were excited because it was a large sale,” she said.

The suspect, who was described by Tenino police as a white woman in her late teens to early 20s, ordered 10 boxes — Shortbread, Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties and Caramel deLites — worth $40.

The suspect is described as 5-foot-2-inches tall and 110 pounds with blue eyes and shoulder-length blond hair. She had a diamond stud nose piercing and was last seen wearing a white hooded Roxy sweatshirt.

“She was very nice,” Lundquist said.

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[LostinVA]

1. What an evil woman

[edbermac]

2. Now that's LOW...she's probably a freeperette...

[Radio_Guy]

8. Freeper capitalism at its finest

Makes me mad as Hell.

[GirlinContempt]

Sometimes, people that pass on counterfeit bills aren't counterfeiters

It happens. Imagine that

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Good point GC

By the way, has anyone told you that you rock today? :-)

[GirlinContempt]

5. Nope, you're the first

:)

[northzax]

6. true, but it's unlikely for a hundred

since you can basically only get them from banks, who would spot such an obvious error (since the mother saw it immediatly) or in personal transactions. I could see a good fake ten or twenty given as change somewhere, but a bad fake is almost always made by the person trying to pass it, or someone they know.

[GirlinContempt]

7. I dunno about the 'basically only get them from banks' bit...

But, one way or another, even IF it was someone she KNEW, I don't think it's fair to judge her as a horrible person for passing it off. It's always possible she didn't know.

[GirlinContempt]

3. dupe

[kay1864]

9. Some hopeful bits from the article

(if you didn't get to read it)

Surveillance tapes from cameras outside of Dave’s Market Place are still being reviewed, said Lt. Robin Ayers of the Tenino Police Department.

The crime committed against Troop 594 is forgery, which is a felony, Ayers said.

The woman might have been driving a light-colored sedan, which was seen leaving the area at the time of the incident, officials said.

Reimbursement

In addition to contacting Tenino police about the counterfeit bill, Lundquist alerted the Girl Scouts Pacific Peaks Council, the Scouts’ governing board, said Dorothy Nelson, communication and marketing director for the council.

Girl Scouts rarely receive counterfeit money, Nelson said, but occasionally troops get bad checks.

After the council receives the police report filed Sunday, it will be able to reimburse the $60 to Troop 594, Nelson said.

“This is not a loss to the girls,” she said, calling the crime a “heartless thing to do.”

I hope they catch the woman and that she gets jail time.

[XemaSab]

10. .