Getting greedy

I've never tried to pass a bad check, but I'd imagine that if you're trying to do so, you might want to try something a bit more...plausible than what this guy did:

Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company. The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious — perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off.

Fuller, of suburban Crowley, was arrested on a forgery charge. He was released after posting $3,750 bail.

Fuller said his girlfriend's mother gave him the check to start a record business. But bank employees who contacted the account's owner said the woman told them she did not give him permission to take or cash the check.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that she probably didn't have hundreds of billions of dollars in the bank, either.

Oh, and in case you were wondering how he came up with such a bright idea, when he was arrested, the cops found weed in his pocket.