And he got away with it too, in spite of those pesky kids!
Because many businesses in Newry, county Down, accept both Euro and Sterling because of the town’s close proximity to the border, we can understand how it might get a little confusing at times.
Less easy to understand, however, is how a business in the town (according to RTE, it was a fast food outlet) actually accepted a €100 note clearly stamped with an ELC logo, which all you parents out there will recognise as Early Learning Centre.
Business owners please educate staff re fake £. This was passed in #Newry as real currency! #NewryHour #bigloss pic.twitter.com/oDsubAAPza
— Police Newry, Mourne and Down (@PSNINMDown) March 10, 2015
PSNI Newry and Mourne published the picture of the note in question on Twitter and Facebook as a warning to all businesses that operate in cash handling to conduct thorough checks so as not to fall into the same trap as this business, who were duped out of €100 plus the value of whatever goods the note was used to pay for.
Somehow, and we’re just guessing here, we don’t think this is the work of a criminal mastermind, rather some chancer who took a huge risk and got away with it.
In any case, vigilance is certainly likely to increase a result.
In the meantime, we’re off down to the shop to try and use some Monopoly money to get a chicken fillet roll, a bag of Tayto a can of Coke for lunch.
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