Man arrested in Texas for trying to cash $360 billion check

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:31pm

FORT WORTH, Texas - Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company. The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious — perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off.

Fuller, of suburban Crowley, was arrested on a forgery charge. He was released after posting $3,750 bail.

Fuller said his girlfriend's mother gave him the check to start a record business. But bank employees who contacted the account's owner said the woman told them she did not give him permission to take or cash the check.

In addition to the forgery count, Fuller was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon and possessing marijuana. Officers reported finding less than two ounces of marijuana and a .25-caliber handgun and magazine in his pocket



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Updated On: 5/1/08 at 11:31 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:36pm

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Police said Fuller stole the check from Paula Prettyman, the mother of Fuller's girlfriend, Andrea Greer.

"I wouldn't picture him doing something that stupid, I mean, hurting me and my family," Greer said.

Greer and her family said they don't know what Fuller was thinking.

"I didn't think he'd do this, something this dumb. I think it shocked everybody that knew him," Greer said.

Her grandmother Sharon Laird agreed.

"I said, 'Do what? Is he crazy? We were just in awe," she said.

Laird said if her family had $360 billion, "I wouldn't be sitting here. I'd be somewhere drinking margaritas. It's five o'clock somewhere, sometime."

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:38pm

Texas + Stoned = Bad Ass Crazy!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:38pm

I'm focusing on the wrong thing, of course, but the name "Paula Prettyman" just made my night.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:39pm

Chicago + Stoned = Devouring a tiramisu

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:47pm

I am, henceforth, changing my name to Paula Prettyman.

So shall it be written. So shall it be done.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:50pm

Besty, that's what we've been calling you behind your back for years.

Phyllis, when I visit you in Chicago come September, can we have some..."tiramisu"?

[Mamie]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 3:08am

I think its all that methane gas put out by those Texas steers. It explains a lot of the 'thinking' going on in that state.

Paula Prettyman. I can't believe some drag queen didn't come up with this one YEARS ago!

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 5:35am

Very, very crazy.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 10:19am

Well, dang durn it, if the check was only bigger, he could'a had hisself trillions!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 10:37am

Oh jeeze...he sat next to me in my high school computer class.

Nice to see nothing has changed.

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 10:52am

They must have some good "tiramisu" down in Texas!

[osage08]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 2:46pm

And to think that I only thought Tiramisu was a harmless but tasty desert! Poor mother's, bringing their children to the backery shop and expecting nothing but a simple afternoon treat... :P

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 3:19pm

I don't think Texas has anything to do with it. You can find stupid in any state.

-Former Texan

[Pippin]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 4:42pm

But everything's bigger in Texas.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 5/2/08 at 6:24pm

Nice one, pippin. lol