must be the money being used to prop up the US economy

Ask that you turn it over to the RCMP? Actually, you must turn it over to the police. With canadian bills, there are many safeguards in them that make them fairly easy to identify as counterfeit. US bills are not as easy, but detection can be done by the naked eye with a little training by retail cashiers. Also, never return the bill to the passer, even if they legally pay for goods and demand the bill back.

Supposed Americans in Prince George in December? Spending hard earned money? With one hundred dollar bills? Purchasing what? Gum only and waiting for change? I got the money from my granny in Montana. Yeah, right. If I may be so bold, may I suggest the only one hundred dollar bills being dropped in PG would be motor home operators shopping while parking and camping at Wallymart in the summer. Other than that, Go figure.

If you vacation in the US and go to any bank here in town to get US currency, they will issue it in $100 bills. Before Christmas, that was all they had left. So it's not such a stretch to see that kind of money, though most who go to the US will spend their converted money there and then some.

Noisy: there is a reason why bogus counterfeit 100 dollar bills come to Canada- to be falsely tendered as genuine with the passer receiving genuine money for change in return. Retailers here aren't used to seeing the 100 US bill so it is not so easily deteceted when it gets passed.

Actually, it isn't hard at all to detect counterfeit US $100 bills: just check for cocaine residue - if you don't detect any, the bills are bogus.

I understand that it would be easy to slip a counterfeit here when people aren't used to seeing them. I was just saying that any US $100 isn't necessarily counterfeit, as that is what the banks were handing out before the holidays. It pays to know what you're looking for, and for retailers to be alert for ANY counterfeit, large or small.

I don't think people carry around narcotic tester kits billposer. Many retailers will not accept 100's anymore even if they're genuine. That is what the damage the counterfeit bills have done to the retail world. The canadian and american economy depends on the confidence that the public has on it's currency, that is why the penalties are so stiff for possessing or uttering a counterfeit note.

Imorge: I know most people don't carry around narcotic testers. Its a joke (though true).