{"id":151086,"date":"2019-07-22T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1796851\/"},"modified":"2019-07-22T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:11:21","slug":"woman-tries-to-buy-an-audi-with-counterfeit-bills-printed-on-inkjet-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/22\/woman-tries-to-buy-an-audi-with-counterfeit-bills-printed-on-inkjet-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Tries to Buy an Audi With Counterfeit Bills Printed on Inkjet Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in Germany tried to by a car with fake banknotes printed on a cheap inkjet printer using regular printing paper. (Photo Credit: Image: Police Directorate Pirmasens)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

We all know that money does not, in fact, grow on trees. It also doesn’t come shooting out the front of your inkjet printer.<\/p>\n

At least it shouldn’t. Not if you don’t want to spend an extended amount of time in a cell.<\/p>\n

That wasn’t enough to deter a 20-year-old German woman recently<\/a>. She wanted to purchase a car. She had a perfectly good all-in-one inkjet printer sitting around at home and a ream of standard-grade inkjet paper just begging to have something printed on it.<\/p>\n

As you can see from the image shared by the local police, she decided to whip up a pile of \u20ac100 notes. She also printed some \u20ac50 bills, too, because sometimes you just don’t want to ask somebody if they can break a large bill.<\/p>\n

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The 2013 Audi A3 during its world premiere at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. (Photo Credit: A163 \/ Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Next it was off to the car dealership in the German city of Kaiserslautern, where she set her sights on a sharp-looking 2013 Audi A3. Her salesperson thought everything was pretty normal from the minute she first approached right through the end of the test drive.<\/p>\n

That’s when things got weird. The woman was given a final price of \u20ac15,000 which she then attempted to pay with a fat stack of her DIY \u20ac100 bills.<\/p>\n

The salesperson was understandably caught off guard, telling Neue OZ (Google Translate link<\/a>) that he’d seen plenty of odd stuff in his time at the dealership but never anything quite like this. “No one was that brash,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I just asked her incredulously if she wanted to play Monopoly,”<\/span> he continued. When the customer maintained her poker face he figured it was time to call the police.<\/p>\n

They apprehended the suspect then headed over to her apartment where they discovered an additional \u20ac13,000 hot off the inkjet.<\/p>\n

According to German police, counterfeiting carries a minimum prison term of three months for someone who’s acting alone. If the young woman in this case was part of a gang, that jumps to at least two years.<\/p>\n

Actually attempting to use<\/em> counterfeit bills generally increases a convicted perpetrator’s time behind bars. The code doesn’t mention those penalties being reduced purely on the grounds that even small children running a lemonade stand would’ve recognized the bills as being bogus.<\/p>\n

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