Old $1,000 bills help nab robbers

[jay]

TEXAS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Banks don't see many $1,000 bills these days. The U.S. Treasury stopped printing them in 1945.

So an Alabama bank alerted police when an 18-year-old Michigan man sought change Thursday for an antique $1,000 bill, and officers arrested him and two 15-year-old companions.

The Kalamazoo County, Mich., sheriff's department says the three stole a safe containing antique money from one youth's parents.

The Kalamazoo Gazette and the Birmingham News say they drove a stolen van to Birmingham, Ala., where the older suspect presented the $1,000 bill at a Service First Bank branch.

The three remained in custody Tuesday in Birmingham awaiting return to Michigan. They're from Texas Township, Mich.

http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/Old_b...lp_nab_robbers

[Frank 'N' Howie]

That would be my luck...Save it for YEARS then go to spend it and BLAMMO!!! Busted like a window in the middle of a little league park...

[don't_axe_me]

From right here in my "neighborhood" it seems! Can a girl be any prouder? NOT!