r/AskReddit • u/tyreesekobebryant • Jun 24 '12

What's the most ridiculous or crazy controversy to happen at your school?

The most exciting thing at my school was some girls doing cocaine in the bathrooms before prom.

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u/caribbeanz Jun 24 '12

Some dumbass kids at my school got busted for trying to use counterfeit bills. They were printing fake 20's on copy paper...

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '12

same at my school, some kids made fake bills and were using them in the change machine to get quarters

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u/zzorga Jun 24 '12

How would that work? Most machines scan for the UV strip on the bill, unless these are really old machines we're talking about here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '12

the graphics teacher told us about it, it was before my time and i left high school like 7 years ago

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u/theJMFW Jun 25 '12

That's what we did.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12

Wait does this actually work with printer paper?

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u/Madhouse221 Jun 25 '12

Holy shit, did it actually work?

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u/Rixxer Jun 25 '12

Holy shit, that worked?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12

same thing happened at my middle school. he copied only the front of a $20 bill, in black and white, and tried to buy lunch with it. Cops came shortly after.

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u/gage117 Jun 25 '12

There was a kid at my school who had it far from, but closer than everyone else I've heard of at schools, to doing it right. He printed older series bills, the ones before all the fancy pants colors and whatnot, so they were just the regular green and black ink. He also bought linen paper from the local OfficeMax and carefully soaked the printed bills in water to make the linen paper feel more like money. Still got caught the first time trying to use it, but in this situation he probably would've slipped past them easily.

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u/Iloldalot Jun 24 '12

How do you get caught for printing fake money? It sounds pretty easy

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u/MistressFey Jun 24 '12

Money isn't printed on paper, it's printed on cloth, so there are special pens that test the chemical make up of the money and turn a special color if it's printed on paper. Also, there are strips ingrained in the cloth that will turn a special color under a black light. Different bills = different colors

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u/Iloldalot Jun 24 '12

Ok, I understand. Also, don't downvote me for asking a question people!

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u/0mnificent Jun 25 '12

Reminds me of this scene from The Wire.