"I think it's just another example of
some odd things that occur!"

By Amalgamated Press, March 9, 2004

Septic City, New Bob -- A woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse, police said.

The United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but people can buy souvenirs of such a bill at some stores, police said.

"It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," Septic City Assistant Police Chief Julio Maria Pedro la Rey de los Cuarto de Baño "Skeeter" McKinney said Tuesday. "People do crazy things all the time. I think it's just another example of some odd things that occur."

A clerk at the store immediately noticed the bill was fake when AnnieBoB handed it to her on Friday, Skeeter said.

The gal then tried to use two gift cards with only $2.32 of value on them to buy the merchandise, but when that didn't work she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill, Skeeter said. The store then called police.

AnnieBoB, proprietor of AnnieBoB's Bait & Sushi, was charged with one count of forgery and two counts of shopping at Wal-Mart. There was no listing for her phone number in directory assistance, and she could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Septic City is 5 miles south of Fat City which is 3 miles east of Hurt City which is 5 miles north of Rodham (the county seat) which is 3 miles west of Septic City. Now yore back whur yew started frum.

This article wus changed jest a leeeeeetle bit frum the original article:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-million-dollar-bill,0,1281415,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines


Religion news....

We was Baptists until three years ago...
and then we got really deep into this type of stuff."

03/08/2004
Zeke MacCormack
Express-News Staff Writer

BOERNE - Daniel A. Lorenz regularly wore a collared shirt to work, but it clearly wasn't the type expected in the Wal-Mart Supercenter's dress code.

He says he was fired last week upon reporting for duty in his priest's shirt with Roman collar, an Arab headdress and six crosses.

Supervisors had warned Lorenz that his job was at risk over his appearance, which they said violated dress codes and upset customers and fellow workers, particularly Catholics.

But Lorenz, 20, ignored requests to shed the shirt and collar - the main bones of contention - claiming they reflect his unique spiritual beliefs.

"I told them that would be like turning my back on God, and I couldn't do that," said the Pipe Creek man whose religious fervor was fueled by a 2001 trip to Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.

There, Lorenz first donned a kaffiyeh, an Arab headdress of folded cloth that's held on by a cord. Rounding out his unorthodox look are patches on his hip pack bearing the anarchy symbol and the words "vampire" and "ninja."

Armed with secretly recorded tapes of counseling sessions with his bosses, Lorenz has filed a complaint over his March 1 dismissal by Wal-Mart with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

"I believe I have been discriminated against because of my religion, universal belief," he said in a sworn affidavit filed with the agency Tuesday.

Although declining comment on Lorenz's case, Sharon Weber said from Wal-Mart headquarters that company policies are designed to be fair while promoting the professionalism and corporate identity that customers expect.

"Wal-Mart provides reasonable accommodation with respect to the dress code when it is appropriate to do so based on a bona fide religious belief," she said. The company "will not honor requests that show a lack of respect for the faiths of others."

Co-workers had varying views of Lorenz, who was a cashier and then a bakery staffer before becoming an overnight stocker for $8.30 an hour. One called him "whacko"; another said he was "a great guy."

In a year at the store, Lorenz said no one complained to him about his Muslim-Christian hybrid image, which he says reflects his nondiscriminatory philosophy about world religions.

"I don't believe in any one religion," Lorenz said in his EEOC complaint. "I do believe in God, but I don't attend any one church. There is no title to my religion other than a universal belief system."

Lorenz's ponytail and fuzzy chin reflect his belief that hair should not be cut because he is only "borrowing" his body. He won't date or marry, because all humans are family, he said, and that would make it incest.

In meetings taped by Lorenz, Wal-Mart supervisors can be heard explaining that his dress is confusing and upsetting customers and associates.

"What I do shows a nondiscriminatory (view) toward any religions," responds Lorenz.

"But how do you think people perceive it?" counters the manager. "Remember, perception is 100 percent of it all."

In another session, a speaker identified as store manager Steve Shadrock says Wal-Mart's home office has concluded he is in violation of the dress code.

"It has nothing to do with what you believe in," he says.

Lorenz's mother, who works at Wal-Mart, said she's the only other adherent to her son's spiritual doctrine, which is now being put to paper.

"We haven't found anybody who believes as strongly as we do," said Catherine Lorenz, 44. "We were Baptists until about three years ago, and then we got really deep into this type of belief."

News of the dress code feud surprised Earl Floyd, a salesman at a Bandera auto dealership that last year gave Lorenz a 1985 Suburban after his old car died and he didn't qualify for financing on a newer one.

"I've seen him a dozen times, but never with the headdress," Floyd said Thursday.

Also filing an EEOC complaint Tuesday was Melanie Lorenz, Daniel's sister, who claims Wal-Mart fired her last month in retaliation for reporting a co-worker's inappropriate remarks.


Some parts of this article... aw raht... the hole thang wus borried out of admiration butt not swiped frum:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA08.03B.walmart_firing_03-04.434eb731.html



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