Good day all. Someone passed this tip along to me and suggested I post it. I took one look at the story and knew we had a winner for the Stupid criminal of the week. This time, we have Pamela Downs who started passing counterfeit money. When arrested, she said Obama announced it was legal for her to print her own money.
Counterfeiting is a great big no no anywhere and the government comes down hard on people who print their own money and claim it’s U.S. currency. Still, you have people and government who try to do this, and with some success. In the case of Downs, her “funny money” was so bad it was laughable. Here are the details from The Times News:
A Kingsport woman told police she was counterfeiting money because she read online that President Barack Obama made a new law allowing her to print her own money, according to a police report.
Police were called to a local grocery store on Sunday night in regards to a complaint about counterfeit money. When the reporting officer arrived, he spoke with a gas station clerk who said that just prior to the officer’s arrival, a white female had handed him a $5 bill, which he suspected to be counterfeit.
I wonder what tipped off the clerk that this was possibly counterfeit? Runny ink? Letters not quite right? No, it was worse.
The clerk handed the officer the bill and immediately recognized the bill had been printed on regular computer paper and each side had been glued together but was falling apart.
You would think this criminal genius was very devious in her attempts to hid her criminal behavior. Not really.
The officer spoke with the female, identified as Pamela Downs, 45, 1943 Fort Robinson Drive apt. A. The officer asked Downs about the currency and she reportedly said she had received the money from a gas station in Bristol a few days ago. She told the officer the bill was folded over and she never inspected it.
Not impossible, but everyone knows that money feels different from computer paper. Still, she might have been wearing gloves and missed it. You would also assume that she stood on her constitutional rights under the 4th Amendment. You would be incorrect in that assumption.
Downs was asked by the officer if her purse could be searched, to which she agreed. Inside her purse, the officer found a $100 which was also counterfeit, according to the report. The bill was printed in black and white and the backside of the bill was upside down. A couple of receipts from Walmart were also found inside the purse, showing Downs had purchased copy paper and a printer.
Besides her 4th amendment rights, she seems to have given up her right to remain silent.
Downs was then placed in handcuffs. Downs then reportedly said, “I don’t give a ****, all these other bitches get to print money so I can too.”
I wonder if she’s talking about Janet Yellen?
While at the jail, she was reportedly read her Miranda Rights and was interviewed. Downs reportedly told the officer the receipts that were found were items she used to print money in her apartment. She then told officers she read online that President Obama had made a new law that permitted her to print her own money because she is on a fixed income, the report stated.
Down then signed a consent to search waiver, which officers executed at her apartment. Inside they found several items consistent with being used to print counterfeit currency including paper, scissors, glue and a printer. All the items were seized and put into evidence. Several more counterfeit bills, both cut and uncut, were located at the apartment. Officers estimated the total to be around $30,000 to $50,000.
And now, we get to spend a couple of hundred thousand dollars trying this idiot and she gets to be a guest of Club Fed for the next 20 years or so. What happened to the old penalties? You know, where they would execute you? I think they still do that in some countries. Now I know of a former attorney who when informed of the circumstances, said that the defendant could be cleared if she could show that she thought she was acting in the belief that she was acting within the law. I doubt that will work no matter what he might think.
In any case, it’s off to the house of many doors for this idiot. Maybe she will actually develop some common sense when she gets out in 15 or so years. Looking at her mug shot, not a chance.
Thatisall
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