[exmadscientist]

Oh, you can absolutely laser print bank notes. It used to be a thing in the 90s, either with color laser printers or color photocopiers. Of course, they're absolutely horrid fakes.

Now, the only person dumber than a criminal who would think to try this is a store clerk who would accept these. So it is not an effective crime, unless the effect you want is "jail, quickly". But it is nonetheless a real crime.

[yarg]

> Now, the only person dumber than a criminal who would think to try this is a store clerk who would accept these.

Not always - it'll often be safer just to accept the "money" and contact the police directly afterwards.

[throwaway2990]

In the 90s it was easy cos it wasn’t wide spread so easy to get away with.