£50 note withdrawal

There is a possibility they have a forged £50 note (or more likely a £20) already to hand. If they seize your note they can produce the forged one as evidence to the customer. Do that several times a week to strangers and you have a pretty good earner. Works until the police are called and seize the note

In message , Mr Pounder writes

No problem - provided the shops concerned are prepared to accept your leaves as payment. This is simply what they are doing when you pay with normal money - ie accepting your bits of paper and pieces of metal. But they are not legally obliged to.

I would want the receipt to contain the serial number of the allegedly forged note, and the reason why they decided that it was a forgery.

When a sharp-eyed shop assistant rejected a pound coin that I had (innocently) presented for payment, they let me keep the coin, which, on examination, I could see was most definitely a forgery, though good enough to require pretty close inspection.

As it was, I knew that all the coins in my pocket had come from change I had received from a supermarket earlier that day. The following day I needed to buy something else from that supermarket, and they accepted the forged pound coin. Obviously I had by that time completely forgotten about it and so passed it unknowingly. ;-)

How naive

---- THIS IS AN ELECTRONIC NOTE FROM THE BANK OF SCOTLAND ---- ---- I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of 20 ----

If I were to print out the above and present it to you as payment, and as you have never before seen an electronic note, you will presumably believe that this is indeed such a thing because, after all, it has "Bank of Scotland" printed on it!

One who is trying to avoid being hauled over the counter and thumped for trying to steal someone's money

The judge wouldn't be as stupid as you.

My IQ is 140. And I understand the point you are making, it's just that's you're wrong.

You won't even take your IQ test.....

Sorry, I've no idea what an electronic note is.

I've traveled to dozens of countries and probably handled hundreds of different banknotes. Funny, but I've never had this kind of recognition problem in my life. I'm quite sure if someone handed be a BoS banknote I would recognise it as such, unless perhaps it was a clever forgery.

Chris

What are they doing issuing Sterling if they aren't part of our monetary system?

The Irish should never be accepted.

Some Welsh are pretty thick. They probably haven't heard of Scotland.

that's just preposterous!

Why permit them to issue something but hot put it on the list of legal tender. A monumental fuckup.