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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (165)... The Sequel!

By Colin Samuels

This week's bonus joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Star-Telegram.com (via QuizLaw) (from Tuesday, April 29; links good at time of posting):

An aspiring record label owner is singing the blues after he was arrested last week for allegedly trying to pass a $360 billion check at a Fort Worth bank.

Employees at the Chase Bank at 8601 S. Hulen St. grew suspicious after seeing all those zeroes (10 to be exact) and called the check's owner. The woman said the suspect, Charles Ray Fuller, 21, of Crowley, is her daughter?s boyfriend and that he did not have permission to take the check or cash it.

Fuller was arrested on suspicion of fraud, along with unlawfully carrying a weapon and possession of marijuana after officers found less than 2 ounces of the drug and a .25-caliber handgun and magazine in his pockets.

While inside a patrol car, police say Fuller blurted out that he is starting his own record label and had been given the money by his girlfriend?s mother to help him start it.

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Full post as published by Infamy or Praise on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).