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Like other classy gentlemen, 39-year-old Luis Lora-Martinez liked to impress the erotic dancers at AJ's Lounge in Secaucus by tipping them with 20 dollar bills. But Lora-Martinez's tips were actually forgeries, according to Secret Service agents who arrested him after employees at the strip club called the police. It seems Lora-Martinez never watched a little movie called To Live and Die in L.A.—which shows how labor-intensive the counterfeiting process actually is—because his fake bills were produced on a computer printer on regular paper. But according to The Jersey Journal, his funny money was good enough to fool the dancers for a little while, at least. When they wised up, they directed investigators to his motel room, where they found $5,000 in fake $20s and $50s stashed away. He now faces up to ten years in prison, and will only be released on bail if he can prove he has $60,000 in non-computer printer bills.
Secret Service Busts Man For Passing Fake Bills to Strippers
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I'm surprised they didn't yell rape.
Well, fake boobs beget fake tips?
He had to try something else after being thrown out of the last club for stuffing handwritten IOU's in the strippers' g- strings.
I've heard that even the best counterfeiters make mostly 5's not to attract too much attention to their notes, that's why 5 dollar bills are the most widely copied bill.
This guy knew he'd be pinched.
The writers at the Star-Ledger must already be planning their exits from that failing paper. "They apparently got passed the dancers and bartenders in the dark club but it wasn't long before someone noticed they were 'funny'..." Passed? I suppose that's what happens when you rely on spellcheckers rather than editors.
I have seen more and more errors in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in the past few years. The most common error is dropped words which obviously a computer can't help you with. And don't get me started on the news crawls on CNN, MSNBC, etc. Apparently that job rates below intern.
Is that Blue Steel or Le Tigre?
Fifty dollar bills! Hundreds and hundreds of fifty dollar bills!
Luis bought that counterfeit machine from the Fratelli's...
That's not as embarassing as the time I wanted to tip a stripper, but all I had on me were Chuck E. Cheese tokens.
Fake 20s?oh no! how are all those strippers going to feed their coke habits children?
When are they going to get around to arresting the azzwipes at the Federal Reserve?. They're ALSO printing worthless dollars.
Typical Obama cult member spending his time in a titty bar with phony dollars. I hope it was worth 10 years in federal prison.
Maybe he should only go to prison for 12 hours a day- say 8PM to 8AM! Sor of like attending a 12 hour titty-bar show. . .
What a schmuck!