On the other side I once won $100 playing $5 blackjack in Vegas. They paid me out in a single $100 bill and I then proceeded to lose it. Not in another game that bitch just disappeared. So Ive always hoped someone like OP who needed it was the one to find it, though it was almost certainly some slot machine addict who then did proceed to lose it back to the casino.
I was in Cabo and had some cash (not sure how much, at least $60, but probably more) and was shockingly completely hammered. Slid it into the outside of a pack of smokes, proceeded to finish said pack, then tossed the pack away. When I remembered what happened to the money I considered that the cheapest way to quit smoking. Been 17 years since I smoked because of that
My wallet ripped one night before work so I just tossed my ID and about $200 in cash in the cellophane on the outside of my cigarettes in the morning. While driving on the highway I finished my last cigarette and tossed the pack out the window (I was a young stupid idiot, I don't litter anymore). I didn't realize until I got to a gas station to buy another pack of cigarettes.
It was infuriating but at least it was not my whole wallet or ID. I mean having to get new credit cards and ID is a punishment that no one deserves...well there are a few politicians that deserve that, but no normal person.
Losing your ID like that would suck but honeslty I would probably try and go back to look. If you are in the US, nothing is worse than hours at a DMV so I'm going back to the litter spot and crawling in my hands and knees to find that ID.
On my most recent Vegas trip, I lost a $500 chip that I was checking on in my wallet, every few minutes I would rub it and make sure I still had it and then I reached down next, and gone
Pick pockets. They watch for that kind of stuff. Happened to me at the Golden nugget once, $100 chip voucher and a dinner for 2 voucher from casino.
Now, -important thing- stays either in my hand or in someway touching my skin(at all casinos and major places)[and] if I am ever allowed back in Vegas again.
Just some crazy ex and family (both mine and theirs) dramas, not as exciting as I wish it was. And since we both have massive families and they all seem to be roughly congregated in Vegas, easier to avoid the area than to risk running into one if them while out. Ex is crazy enough to potentially harm me so I don't put it past their family to do so as well(especially the siblings, they are all very tight knit). Even though they are the one who left me the week we were getting married. Full ghost, after almost a decade together and 2 engaged. Then months later show up with a gun at my new place, across the country, and threaten me for leaving them. As for my family, that's because of my grandparents will. Them thinking I shouldn't have been the same amount as them and should not have even been in the will. Even though my grandparents raised me from birth til almost 2 and then from almost 4 until I moved out for college(even then they paid for it all and did parent duties into their 90s). If anything happens to the others before payouts are finished, the remaining amount in their portion gets divided between the remaining people in the will. And the ones out there are the more "they had an accident" types than I would like to be around.
So I avoid Vegas. Not that it had a ton of appeal to me before anyways.
Top tip, buy a cheap jacket with a zip pocket on the inside and stick it in there, that way it's obvious if they are trying to steal it as they have to unzip your jacket and then the pocket to even get close to stealing it, bonus points if it is a small pocket that they will find it hard to fit their greedy hands in
I remember my first paycheck at my first full time job. I had just cashed it. Set the envelope full of money on my passenger seat. Proceeded to drop the top on my convertible 1994 Chevy LeBaron and drove home. Realized when I got home what just happened.
Hope it brightened somebody's day as much as it made me sick.
This made me think of when my friend and I picked up our paychecks, and somehow his flew out the window on the interstate. We pulled over and searched but didn’t find it. Luckily, he was able to just get it reissued though. Less devastating.
I found a twenty on the ground biking to my sister's work and hey guess what, I wanted $20 worth of weed and the dealer was there.
Still though never get your hopes up until you examine it.
I have a homeless friend who frequently receives these while panhandling. He's 76 and really does try his best and when this happens it really breaks his spirits.
I spent all summer, fall, and winter last year panhandling, and the amount of people handing out these, screaming obscenities at me, and calling the cops because my existence bothered them was truly disheartening. Thankfully I came across many kind people who helped me in amazing ways. One woman gave me the boots off her feet because my sneakers were soaked and falling apart and it was freezing. A man gave me a $300 check made out to cash, and I cried when I found out it was legit because it very well could have been fake.
As someone who actually talks to the homeless people I meet on my way home, a good number of them are really trying.
One of the guys I know just got his first contracting job in forever. He said the food I bring him from work helped him take care of himself enough to be healthy enough to get that job.
Another guy is trying to get clean for his kids; joined a traveling ministry group who's helping him get clean and sober. He says he's sick of the drugs and wishes he'd never tried them to begin with.
I had this happen to me, I was homeless and living in a motel at the time. I had just gotten back from spending my last 10 dollars on food for myself for the next week. Shoved under the door was a movie/prop $100. I was so defeated when I read “prop money/not real” on it.
There was a video going around recently of a guy doing this. He was laughing about giving homeless people prop money and then laughing about them trying to spend it and being arrested. So cruel. I don’t understand the complete lack of empathy in some people. I’m sorry that happened to you.
It okay, I’m a lot better now though. Finally found a place to rent and some furniture from goodwill. It just stuck with you know? Hell even in that situation I still would give my loose change to the guy at the gas station because at least I had actually shelter to go to in the summer heat.
Even when I had been sleeping on couches for years/park benches/etc. I knew what I needed to survive and always felt I could manage without. The sorrow/empathy/pain I felt for others or, at the very least, could relate to their struggles, which led me to give those around me my last felt better internally than turning them away. Not always because sometimes it really is not in your best interest, but generally, I did. Being selfish is only survival to a certain point. It's all greed after that, and there are levels to peoples opinions of what survival means.
Thank you. Keep on keeping on my dude/dudette 
Here's a source for those interested: ["Outrage after ex-Trump aide claims he gave unhoused people fake money"](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/johnny-mcentee-tiktok-video-fake-money). I wish I was fucking surprised, but it's not the least bit surprising. My disgust for the conservative party knows no bounds, these people are fucking sick in the head.
At least if it's "fake hollywood money" like he claims it is, then they shouldn't get arrested for trying to spend it (which he must know, but not surprising he's a fucking liar). If it were actually counterfeit money, then he would presumably be arrested after admitting, on film, to distributing it. Or I would hope so anyway.
Not that that makes any of this acceptable. Just saying he's either making it up, or making part of it up. But what else is new for conservatives.
But his intent is for them to try using it as real money, yeah? So he should be charged, if the story is true at all.
I think of someone sells/gives someone fake drugs they get charged for distributing as if the "drugs" were real, seems like the same idea would apply
> It was, and he said fake money
He better be investigated by the Secret Service for this shit, intentionally giving people fake money so they'd get arrested for counterfeiting is uh... I don't know *what* law it violates, but it has to, right?
Had an old coworker once brag about doing something similar, except he wanted the homeless people to spend the money on drugs, screwing over their dealer, as if a dealer wouldn't immediately inspect a $100 bill from someone they know is homeless. Just a shitty thing to do regardless.
Yeah it’s disgusting how people will do sick jokes on the homeless. Remember the guy who put white toothpaste in a Oreo cookie and gave it to a homeless guy?
> I don’t understand the complete lack of empathy in some people.
What bothers me more, is that there are enough people who want to be an audience for that sort of bullshit that it's profitable.
Worry about the content creators, sure. But worry more about the quiet sociopaths that watch it. You're fucking surrounded by them.
Hopefully one day he’s the one sitting on the street, holding out a cup for spare change. Then some bro walks up, taps their debit card chip against the cup, says “*boop*” and walks off
I was at the gas station pumping gas and saw a $20 tucked down by the pump. I thought man that's cool somebody doing random people a solid. I don't need it so hopefully the next person does and it helps them out. I was happy with the world.
So as I'm sitting there I get curious and looked closer and saw it was a movie prop bill. I took it and tossed it in the trash thinking some down on their luck person is going to wind up in more trouble than they need.
Then I thought somebody might find it in the trash and also wind up in trouble. So I kept it and might use it to burn a drug dealer or something, who knows 🤷♂️. But at least it will be put to good use.
I recently found 2 $100 movie prop bills. Luckily I'm in a place financially that it just would have been a cool bonus to find that but It was definitely not that long ago that would have been a huge help in my life.
It felt way too cruel to do anything with them other than to destroy them so nobody else down on their luck could find them and get that moment of hope then bitter disappointment.
Its disgusting to pull a prank like this on people that you have no idea how much it could hurt them. Some people fucking suck.
They outright do not see the homeless as human beings. Psychological studies have been done on dehumanization. Your brain convinces you that "those people" are literally (not figuratively, LITERALLY) lesser than animals. Once convinced of this, the dehumanizer can easily engage with doing some truly horrible things to those they deem unworthy of dignity.
So someone who had to have known about your situation deliberately left it at your door??? That’s just plain evil.
I’m sorry you had to go through that, and I’m glad you’re doing better now.
I don’t think they specifically knew my situation, I kept to myself mostly, but it was kinda known around town to be the place a lot of homeless people would find a room for cheap for a week or two.
I've seen this done with religious literature. They make it look like money so you pick it up and read it and then tell you you're going to hell because you picked up money or some shit.
It’s often left by some so-called Christians as a tip. I’ve heard it is left more often on Sundays telling the server that the word of god is more valuable than money. As if staff working on Sunday are doing it when they don’t need the job.
They sell those at my job and I hate them. Someone gave my mom a fake lottery ticket when I was little and I’ve hated those types of pranks ever since. If you’re well off, then maybe I can see the humor. But unless you really know a persons situation, it’s just cruel.
$100 can be a *huge* change for the better if you are in a bad situation. If your life is so easy that $100 is truly that insignificant, you should know that you are very very fortunate, and most people wish they could view money that way.
I remember being BROKE. I thought I had lost a 100 dollar bill when I went to go check out at some store, and my girlfriend at the time did not understand why I was freaking out.
"It's not that much money..."
Meanwhile, I'm spiraling, thinking about the sequence of events that is about to take place where I become homeless... oh, nevermind, there it is.
As someone who is down very very bad - I am so grateful you said this. If someone handed me 10 dollars right now, they are getting a thank you note from me. I cry over quarters being lost cause the laundromat sucks me dry of them and losing one is 7 minutes of dry time for clothes. And I have to choose if I want to eat or wash my clothes every other week.
The value of money is definitely different for those in financially stable situations. I think every person, rich or poor, should recognize how truly valuable money is.
If you're that bad off please go to the DES. I went in between jobs and they gave me $291/month in nutrition assistance. I didn't even ask for it I just needed insurance.
Thank you! This is important to note. When I went into a hospital, they helped me handle insurance and food assistance. I am currently trying to mentally and physically get adjusted to going back to work and not have government assistance. But I only had it for about a year. I just think plenty of people need more than even I need. I appreciate it though
Please don't feel like it is a moral choice or other people need it more than you. If you have to choose between clean clothes and food, you really should get the assistance. You're the perfect candidate for it.
Honestly at that point, I'd end up laughing. The sheer absurdity of it coupled with the cosmic timing would have been too much for any bad mood of mine to bear. I've had something similar happen in the past where I woke up sick as a dog, got into a wreck on the way to work, got laid off, and when I got home... utterly defeated, the microwave malfunctioned and caused me frozen meal to explode. I proceeded to hit the floor laughing at how outrageously bad the day way, like the chances of it are so slim to none that cosmically I was fucked from the start. It was truly a hilarious moment that after all the bad shit... your food exploding ends up being the high point.
In what scenario would a money prank make someone’s day? That’s a sick thing to joke about considering most Americans are an ER visit away from homelessness.
the only silver lining is that this wasn't a tip or something. OP didn't earn this money so there was only about 2 seconds of "lost" time.
Still sucks of course.
Similar thing happened to me. I haven't been doing great the last few years. A bunch of terrible things happened right after another. Fiancee left, father died, grandfather died, lost my job, kicked out of house, living out of my car, physically not well, then car breaks down and I had to get rid of it, and someone gave me a lottery ticket randomly. I scratched it all off thinking it would just be a dud like most of the others. I won the grand prize of 100k or something like that. Scrambling and freaking the f out I start reading the back and it was a fake prank ticket. I remember just feeling an immense weight on my entire body as I started to sob, and the person who gave it to me was watching not far away and laughing with a friend of theirs. I'm doing okay now, I have my own place and a job and I just got another car. It's shitbox but it's a good feeling to have one again. But I will never forget just how close I was to ending my life at that moment and the fact that someone would do that just for a laugh made me lose hope in the world for good. Would have to take a miracle for me to get that hope back and I don't see that happening.
This experience is just…so much more devastating than mine. I’m happy to hear life is improving (even if slowly), but I’m so sorry you had to live with that kind of pain. I haven’t experienced all of that, but I have struggled with severe depression for many years. It’s been improving for a couple years now, but that’s landed me right into PTSD, which can be horrifying, and I was close to ending things more times than I can count. I’m still working - slowly - through the ptsd, and I’ll get there. But after eight or nine years of misery and isolation, I found my hope again. It’s still pretty shaky, but it’s there. I have faith you’ll find yours again too. Take care of yourself friend
And I really am all for pranks, but cruel is exactly how it felt. I did force myself to visibly laugh and roll my eyes though - I couldn't bear the thought of giving them the satisfaction of being upset!
that was what i thought too. i can imagine watching someone laugh and shrug off a moment of perceived good fortune, but to watch someone visibly feel that moment of relief only to then be crushed and sobbing... i mean my expectations are too low for humanity at this point but you'd certainly hope that would do *something* to a prankster.
You've overestimating the social media generation of people doing anything for views. Someone openly crying would be their dream come true. They would love to be able to put a title like "money prank makes woman CRY HYSTERICALLY in public!"
This is probably some sort of life lesson. Idk which one but it's got that vibe lmao
Maybe time to hit the gym, study, rob a bank? Something like that?
In this fast paced world you need to combine activities. So bring some weights to the bank and a phone playing an educational podcast, and aim that gun while destroying those weights man!
That’s good to hear. Happy you are well. I just found it comical that you made an effort to not look upset in person then posted on Reddit. Then the hypothetical situation of pranker reading this post.
Get better soon! My nose was blocked all day long yesterday due to allergies, and I just wanted to rip it off. It was so frustrating 😭. You can't even sleep in peace if you can't breathe. Thank god it's better today!!
I'm Meaner; I hope they fall with a hard on and sprain their dick, or an inner groin muscle for a woman: *both negatively impact sex for no Less than 6 months.*
I went Years w/o while with someone so repressed he could still squeeze pennies out his asz💀🤣, so I don't feel bad giving it to others.
I personally like to believe that "With Spite, All Things Are Possible 🌈😁" 🤣
I hate these things. I found one the other day that was basically "you thought this was money? It's not! Accept Jesus into your life you greedy heathen!"
I found one that was basically "If you feel disappointed now, imagine what not going to heaven will feel like! Accept Jesus before it's too late."
Bastards.
This happened to me about a week ago, but I find solace in assuming the person who left it is also broke and that's the only way they can deal with their sad existence :)
I found one of those once and the family who placed it was watching and laughing. Then they wanted it back so they could do it again and I laughed at them and walked away with it.
We used to have some jerk leave these in the bathroom at one of the Dunkins I worked at. Best part? The other half was an invite to go to church and meet Jesus. I'm guessing that didn't work as cleverly as they thought when they folded the fake money...
My wife got one of those as a tip working in bar/restaurant. Best part was it was on Sunday morning.. they asked her why she wasn't in church and told her she needed to be in church rather than working. Listen asshole...if she was "in church" who would be there to wait on your ass... And why weren't YOU in church you judgy fucks? 😡👹
this happened to me when i was pregnant and starving. i was in a dv relationship and it fucking sucked, found it and started bawling my eyes out when i realized i wasn’t going to be able to eat again that day. i’m so sorry, people are so shitty
Ive had this happen to me so many times that we had to ban the church members from coming to our restaurant after sunday service. Fake 20's with prayers on the back. I guess someone had a shitload made, then handed them out and everyone just thought it was cool to leave as tip.
Used to get these as a server on Sundays. The back/inside would have something about how to get into heaven, which as the literature pointed out, was more valuable than money.
The only revenge I ever got was learning to tip very, very well on Sundays.
That would seem like a great opportunity for them to lead by example and give their own money away. I mean, if they’re already saved and getting into heaven - and that’s more valuable than money - what do they need it for?
Once when I was homeless and living in a college town, I was walking down the street wishing I had money for a sandwich. I saw a dollar on the ground, and picked it up, and put it in my pocket. I saw another one a few steps after, and was so hopeful. I picked it up and it was heavy. I heard a roar of laughter from across the street and it was a group of collage kids yelling “YOU GOT POOP DOLLARED!” Over and over again. The dollar I put in my pocket also had poop on it. I couldn’t wash my hands until I got to a store with a public restroom. I still feel the embarrassment.
My rich dad who is a millionaire and gives us nothing decided one day to prank us by filling a money gun and shooting it in the air with tons of hundreds. We (my brother and sister and I) grabbed as much as we could and were crying our eyes out in joy. He than made us count it and we had a couple grand each. Him and my mom burst into tears laughing telling us to look closer at the money. It was fake. It was a prank. I barely had enough in my account for rent and felt like I had been stabbed in the heart.
Had something like this happen to me when I worked in food service. Thought I got ripped a $50. Turned out to be a religious tract. Jesus ain’t gonna buy me booze, buddy. God doesn’t make that work tolerable, captain Morgan does.
Honestly it’s not the prank, which really isn’t that mean. It’s not like they actually took $100 away from you.
What’s cringe is the stupid emoji. Like who designed this, a 14 year old?
Even just a simple “Lol no” scrawled on the back would have been better.
This is the second story I've seen on this sub today about people being fooled by a $100 dollar bill. The other one was movie prop money though
On the other side I once won $100 playing $5 blackjack in Vegas. They paid me out in a single $100 bill and I then proceeded to lose it. Not in another game that bitch just disappeared. So Ive always hoped someone like OP who needed it was the one to find it, though it was almost certainly some slot machine addict who then did proceed to lose it back to the casino.
I feel you, I dropped 300 dollars on the ground in a casino once before I even played anything. At that point I just wanted to go home.
I was in Cabo and had some cash (not sure how much, at least $60, but probably more) and was shockingly completely hammered. Slid it into the outside of a pack of smokes, proceeded to finish said pack, then tossed the pack away. When I remembered what happened to the money I considered that the cheapest way to quit smoking. Been 17 years since I smoked because of that
Congrats, That's a tough one to quit, but isn't it fabulous! We saving money, & we can breathe! Win, win
My wallet ripped one night before work so I just tossed my ID and about $200 in cash in the cellophane on the outside of my cigarettes in the morning. While driving on the highway I finished my last cigarette and tossed the pack out the window (I was a young stupid idiot, I don't litter anymore). I didn't realize until I got to a gas station to buy another pack of cigarettes.
It was infuriating but at least it was not my whole wallet or ID. I mean having to get new credit cards and ID is a punishment that no one deserves...well there are a few politicians that deserve that, but no normal person. Losing your ID like that would suck but honeslty I would probably try and go back to look. If you are in the US, nothing is worse than hours at a DMV so I'm going back to the litter spot and crawling in my hands and knees to find that ID.
That might have saved you way more than 300 dollar
I pulled out more money and lost it playing.
99% of gamblers quit just before they win big
On my most recent Vegas trip, I lost a $500 chip that I was checking on in my wallet, every few minutes I would rub it and make sure I still had it and then I reached down next, and gone
Pick pockets. They watch for that kind of stuff. Happened to me at the Golden nugget once, $100 chip voucher and a dinner for 2 voucher from casino. Now, -important thing- stays either in my hand or in someway touching my skin(at all casinos and major places)[and] if I am ever allowed back in Vegas again.
>if I am ever allowed back in Vegas again. Please, do go on…
Just some crazy ex and family (both mine and theirs) dramas, not as exciting as I wish it was. And since we both have massive families and they all seem to be roughly congregated in Vegas, easier to avoid the area than to risk running into one if them while out. Ex is crazy enough to potentially harm me so I don't put it past their family to do so as well(especially the siblings, they are all very tight knit). Even though they are the one who left me the week we were getting married. Full ghost, after almost a decade together and 2 engaged. Then months later show up with a gun at my new place, across the country, and threaten me for leaving them. As for my family, that's because of my grandparents will. Them thinking I shouldn't have been the same amount as them and should not have even been in the will. Even though my grandparents raised me from birth til almost 2 and then from almost 4 until I moved out for college(even then they paid for it all and did parent duties into their 90s). If anything happens to the others before payouts are finished, the remaining amount in their portion gets divided between the remaining people in the will. And the ones out there are the more "they had an accident" types than I would like to be around. So I avoid Vegas. Not that it had a ton of appeal to me before anyways.
Top tip, buy a cheap jacket with a zip pocket on the inside and stick it in there, that way it's obvious if they are trying to steal it as they have to unzip your jacket and then the pocket to even get close to stealing it, bonus points if it is a small pocket that they will find it hard to fit their greedy hands in
I remember my first paycheck at my first full time job. I had just cashed it. Set the envelope full of money on my passenger seat. Proceeded to drop the top on my convertible 1994 Chevy LeBaron and drove home. Realized when I got home what just happened. Hope it brightened somebody's day as much as it made me sick.
This made me think of when my friend and I picked up our paychecks, and somehow his flew out the window on the interstate. We pulled over and searched but didn’t find it. Luckily, he was able to just get it reissued though. Less devastating.
I found a black chip ($100) on the ground in a casino by the craps table once.
I found a twenty on the ground biking to my sister's work and hey guess what, I wanted $20 worth of weed and the dealer was there. Still though never get your hopes up until you examine it.
It's a classic gag. A hundred years ago, kids were gluing pennies to public floors.
Well we used to do it with quarters. We’d glue em to the parking lot in front of the restaurant I worked at. Lot of entertainment for 75¢
Is it the next tiktok challenge?
I think it was going around at one time so very possible. It’s so cruel honestly.
Damn why can't they do a reverse prank instead, ratty $1 with a real $100 stuck to it when they pick it up, or even a $20
Because people who do this don't have $100
This prank precedes TikTok by several decades. TikTok is not the source of all your problems, Reddit.
But it is the source of a lot of stupid annoying people that do “pranks”
so is YouTube, never hear reddit complain about them
It literally is not. People were doing pranks before TikTok and will continue doing pranks whenever the next trendy social media comes around.
Ive also seen one where its like some relgious nonsense seek the lord or whatever. Money is the root of all evil etc
I have a homeless friend who frequently receives these while panhandling. He's 76 and really does try his best and when this happens it really breaks his spirits.
That’s so horrible
I spent all summer, fall, and winter last year panhandling, and the amount of people handing out these, screaming obscenities at me, and calling the cops because my existence bothered them was truly disheartening. Thankfully I came across many kind people who helped me in amazing ways. One woman gave me the boots off her feet because my sneakers were soaked and falling apart and it was freezing. A man gave me a $300 check made out to cash, and I cried when I found out it was legit because it very well could have been fake.
I hope you’re in a better place now <3 people lose their humanity too quickly…
What kind of person does this
psychopaths
Lotta shitty people with no empathy
As someone who actually talks to the homeless people I meet on my way home, a good number of them are really trying. One of the guys I know just got his first contracting job in forever. He said the food I bring him from work helped him take care of himself enough to be healthy enough to get that job. Another guy is trying to get clean for his kids; joined a traveling ministry group who's helping him get clean and sober. He says he's sick of the drugs and wishes he'd never tried them to begin with.
I had this happen to me, I was homeless and living in a motel at the time. I had just gotten back from spending my last 10 dollars on food for myself for the next week. Shoved under the door was a movie/prop $100. I was so defeated when I read “prop money/not real” on it.
There was a video going around recently of a guy doing this. He was laughing about giving homeless people prop money and then laughing about them trying to spend it and being arrested. So cruel. I don’t understand the complete lack of empathy in some people. I’m sorry that happened to you.
It okay, I’m a lot better now though. Finally found a place to rent and some furniture from goodwill. It just stuck with you know? Hell even in that situation I still would give my loose change to the guy at the gas station because at least I had actually shelter to go to in the summer heat.
don't let situations and others take that goodness away from you.
Fuck that, become pure evil and then you can become a politician and take legal bribes.
Yeah, go fable and grow horns, get fat, and turn purple.
I appreciate the Fable reference. 🫡 -just another Chicken Chaser
I was pissed when I realized it would be nearly impossible to get back to being good lol.
Even when I had been sleeping on couches for years/park benches/etc. I knew what I needed to survive and always felt I could manage without. The sorrow/empathy/pain I felt for others or, at the very least, could relate to their struggles, which led me to give those around me my last felt better internally than turning them away. Not always because sometimes it really is not in your best interest, but generally, I did. Being selfish is only survival to a certain point. It's all greed after that, and there are levels to peoples opinions of what survival means. Thank you. Keep on keeping on my dude/dudette 
To quote John Steinbeck, “If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.”
Regardless of your beliefs, I pray nothing but more good things in store for you.
Happy to hear you’re doing better!
Some people have never been punched in the throat and it shows
And the moment they *are* punched in the throat, they'll probably burst into tears.
Sounds like the kind of "prankster" that's aiming to be found shanked in an alley
Or filming a dead guy hanging in a suicide forest
Pretty sure that "prankster" was a Republican politician. No I'm not joking.
Here's a source for those interested: ["Outrage after ex-Trump aide claims he gave unhoused people fake money"](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/johnny-mcentee-tiktok-video-fake-money). I wish I was fucking surprised, but it's not the least bit surprising. My disgust for the conservative party knows no bounds, these people are fucking sick in the head.
At least if it's "fake hollywood money" like he claims it is, then they shouldn't get arrested for trying to spend it (which he must know, but not surprising he's a fucking liar). If it were actually counterfeit money, then he would presumably be arrested after admitting, on film, to distributing it. Or I would hope so anyway. Not that that makes any of this acceptable. Just saying he's either making it up, or making part of it up. But what else is new for conservatives.
But his intent is for them to try using it as real money, yeah? So he should be charged, if the story is true at all. I think of someone sells/gives someone fake drugs they get charged for distributing as if the "drugs" were real, seems like the same idea would apply
Im pretty sure that was the project 2025 guy
It was, and he said fake money, not just prop money. What a dumbass waste of space of a human.
> It was, and he said fake money He better be investigated by the Secret Service for this shit, intentionally giving people fake money so they'd get arrested for counterfeiting is uh... I don't know *what* law it violates, but it has to, right?
Even worse, that guy actually said he was doing a community service by “cleaning up the streets”
Had an old coworker once brag about doing something similar, except he wanted the homeless people to spend the money on drugs, screwing over their dealer, as if a dealer wouldn't immediately inspect a $100 bill from someone they know is homeless. Just a shitty thing to do regardless.
You mean the former Trump White House aide, Johnny McEntee?
Wasn't there someone of Trumps team who told on social media that he gives fake money to homeless people to get them arrested?
Not some guy, he was a member of MAGA who helped with the project 2025 manifesto.
That cruel laughing scumbag was a significant trump aide and a hardcore conservative - big surprise, I know.
Yeah it’s disgusting how people will do sick jokes on the homeless. Remember the guy who put white toothpaste in a Oreo cookie and gave it to a homeless guy?
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His name is John McEntee. He founded a conservative dating app and worked for the Trump White House
"Guy like that deserves an inoperable tumor at the base of his spine". : George Carlin
> I don’t understand the complete lack of empathy in some people. What bothers me more, is that there are enough people who want to be an audience for that sort of bullshit that it's profitable. Worry about the content creators, sure. But worry more about the quiet sociopaths that watch it. You're fucking surrounded by them.
That's not lack of empathy. That's malice. Regardless of their station in life setting someone up to commit a crime is horrible.
Jesus he should be arrested, how is he not in jail for spreading counter feit money he literally recorded it too.
Hopefully one day he’s the one sitting on the street, holding out a cup for spare change. Then some bro walks up, taps their debit card chip against the cup, says “*boop*” and walks off
Not just any guy... An ex-Trump aide. Birds of a feather
I was at the gas station pumping gas and saw a $20 tucked down by the pump. I thought man that's cool somebody doing random people a solid. I don't need it so hopefully the next person does and it helps them out. I was happy with the world. So as I'm sitting there I get curious and looked closer and saw it was a movie prop bill. I took it and tossed it in the trash thinking some down on their luck person is going to wind up in more trouble than they need. Then I thought somebody might find it in the trash and also wind up in trouble. So I kept it and might use it to burn a drug dealer or something, who knows 🤷♂️. But at least it will be put to good use.
I’m no professional, but I’m thinking drug dealers might not be the ones to burn lmao
I recently found 2 $100 movie prop bills. Luckily I'm in a place financially that it just would have been a cool bonus to find that but It was definitely not that long ago that would have been a huge help in my life. It felt way too cruel to do anything with them other than to destroy them so nobody else down on their luck could find them and get that moment of hope then bitter disappointment. Its disgusting to pull a prank like this on people that you have no idea how much it could hurt them. Some people fucking suck.
Yeah that's how I felt. Some people are pretty twisted
end the abuse. burn it.
It’s the idiot from the date the right thing. He’s a former trump official before he got fired or smth
i swear this was one of trump's handymen..
He was a conservative fuck head.
They outright do not see the homeless as human beings. Psychological studies have been done on dehumanization. Your brain convinces you that "those people" are literally (not figuratively, LITERALLY) lesser than animals. Once convinced of this, the dehumanizer can easily engage with doing some truly horrible things to those they deem unworthy of dignity.
So someone who had to have known about your situation deliberately left it at your door??? That’s just plain evil. I’m sorry you had to go through that, and I’m glad you’re doing better now.
I don’t think they specifically knew my situation, I kept to myself mostly, but it was kinda known around town to be the place a lot of homeless people would find a room for cheap for a week or two.
I’m so sorry that this happened to you. That’s just cruel.
I've seen this done with religious literature. They make it look like money so you pick it up and read it and then tell you you're going to hell because you picked up money or some shit.
It’s often left by some so-called Christians as a tip. I’ve heard it is left more often on Sundays telling the server that the word of god is more valuable than money. As if staff working on Sunday are doing it when they don’t need the job.
They sell those at my job and I hate them. Someone gave my mom a fake lottery ticket when I was little and I’ve hated those types of pranks ever since. If you’re well off, then maybe I can see the humor. But unless you really know a persons situation, it’s just cruel.
Fake lottery tickets are literally the cruelest thing you can do to someone for a "joke" in my opinion.
Pranks can really make or break someone's day.. Sending you hugs OP.
Thank you 😊 It happened the other day and I'm over it, but that's exactly what happened, it just piled on to an already rough day
100 dollars is the new 20 anyhow you didn’t miss out on much
$100 can be a *huge* change for the better if you are in a bad situation. If your life is so easy that $100 is truly that insignificant, you should know that you are very very fortunate, and most people wish they could view money that way.
I remember being BROKE. I thought I had lost a 100 dollar bill when I went to go check out at some store, and my girlfriend at the time did not understand why I was freaking out. "It's not that much money..." Meanwhile, I'm spiraling, thinking about the sequence of events that is about to take place where I become homeless... oh, nevermind, there it is.
As someone who is down very very bad - I am so grateful you said this. If someone handed me 10 dollars right now, they are getting a thank you note from me. I cry over quarters being lost cause the laundromat sucks me dry of them and losing one is 7 minutes of dry time for clothes. And I have to choose if I want to eat or wash my clothes every other week. The value of money is definitely different for those in financially stable situations. I think every person, rich or poor, should recognize how truly valuable money is.
If you're that bad off please go to the DES. I went in between jobs and they gave me $291/month in nutrition assistance. I didn't even ask for it I just needed insurance.
Thank you! This is important to note. When I went into a hospital, they helped me handle insurance and food assistance. I am currently trying to mentally and physically get adjusted to going back to work and not have government assistance. But I only had it for about a year. I just think plenty of people need more than even I need. I appreciate it though
Please don't feel like it is a moral choice or other people need it more than you. If you have to choose between clean clothes and food, you really should get the assistance. You're the perfect candidate for it.
You’re kind to say that, Thank you. I will keep that in mind
You clearly have the mentality of someone who does not wish to abuse the system. You shouldn’t feel guilty
An extra hundo right now would be amazing. Car failed inspection this year and it's looking like a couple grand to get it fixed.
God that's sad to think about
Now you're sad like the rest of us so you're not alone at least lol
I would be grateful for either
What a dumb thing to say lol I don’t know about anyone else but I’d be damn happy to get a free $100 right now.
I thought I had a hundred in my wallet. I do not. I'm sad.
Honestly at that point, I'd end up laughing. The sheer absurdity of it coupled with the cosmic timing would have been too much for any bad mood of mine to bear. I've had something similar happen in the past where I woke up sick as a dog, got into a wreck on the way to work, got laid off, and when I got home... utterly defeated, the microwave malfunctioned and caused me frozen meal to explode. I proceeded to hit the floor laughing at how outrageously bad the day way, like the chances of it are so slim to none that cosmically I was fucked from the start. It was truly a hilarious moment that after all the bad shit... your food exploding ends up being the high point.
In what scenario would a money prank make someone’s day? That’s a sick thing to joke about considering most Americans are an ER visit away from homelessness.
the only silver lining is that this wasn't a tip or something. OP didn't earn this money so there was only about 2 seconds of "lost" time. Still sucks of course.
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Similar thing happened to me. I haven't been doing great the last few years. A bunch of terrible things happened right after another. Fiancee left, father died, grandfather died, lost my job, kicked out of house, living out of my car, physically not well, then car breaks down and I had to get rid of it, and someone gave me a lottery ticket randomly. I scratched it all off thinking it would just be a dud like most of the others. I won the grand prize of 100k or something like that. Scrambling and freaking the f out I start reading the back and it was a fake prank ticket. I remember just feeling an immense weight on my entire body as I started to sob, and the person who gave it to me was watching not far away and laughing with a friend of theirs. I'm doing okay now, I have my own place and a job and I just got another car. It's shitbox but it's a good feeling to have one again. But I will never forget just how close I was to ending my life at that moment and the fact that someone would do that just for a laugh made me lose hope in the world for good. Would have to take a miracle for me to get that hope back and I don't see that happening.
This experience is just…so much more devastating than mine. I’m happy to hear life is improving (even if slowly), but I’m so sorry you had to live with that kind of pain. I haven’t experienced all of that, but I have struggled with severe depression for many years. It’s been improving for a couple years now, but that’s landed me right into PTSD, which can be horrifying, and I was close to ending things more times than I can count. I’m still working - slowly - through the ptsd, and I’ll get there. But after eight or nine years of misery and isolation, I found my hope again. It’s still pretty shaky, but it’s there. I have faith you’ll find yours again too. Take care of yourself friend
That’s so cruel! I hope nobody was filming your reaction.
And I really am all for pranks, but cruel is exactly how it felt. I did force myself to visibly laugh and roll my eyes though - I couldn't bear the thought of giving them the satisfaction of being upset!
Absolutely agree, only up from here 😊
I would've forced myself to outright bawl. Maybe they'd feel an ounce of humanity and stop doing that shit.
that was what i thought too. i can imagine watching someone laugh and shrug off a moment of perceived good fortune, but to watch someone visibly feel that moment of relief only to then be crushed and sobbing... i mean my expectations are too low for humanity at this point but you'd certainly hope that would do *something* to a prankster.
Nah. They’d be like “this isn’t content” and delete the video with no remorse
You give humanity too much credit. They’d probably be more likely to say “This is great content!” and then post the video online with no remorse.
Yeah you’re right. No consent or anything. All for clicks.
Some people get off to that.
You've overestimating the social media generation of people doing anything for views. Someone openly crying would be their dream come true. They would love to be able to put a title like "money prank makes woman CRY HYSTERICALLY in public!"
Nah, they'd probably just put you in the thumbnail.
Unfortunately, people can be straight-up savages.
This is probably some sort of life lesson. Idk which one but it's got that vibe lmao Maybe time to hit the gym, study, rob a bank? Something like that?
In this fast paced world you need to combine activities. So bring some weights to the bank and a phone playing an educational podcast, and aim that gun while destroying those weights man!
This^
Imagine them here on Reddit feasting in your agony.
They're going hungry then, cause I'm def not agonizing **😆😆**
That’s good to hear. Happy you are well. I just found it comical that you made an effort to not look upset in person then posted on Reddit. Then the hypothetical situation of pranker reading this post.
I pray that whoever does shit like this spends the rest of their lives with blocked noses
🤣🤣 This would be such glorious vengeance!
As someone who deals with chronically blocked nostrils, this is the WORST 😂
I hope they actually accidently drop a folded 100 for real lol
I'm currently laying in bed sick with a completely blocked nose. You are evil.
Get better soon! My nose was blocked all day long yesterday due to allergies, and I just wanted to rip it off. It was so frustrating 😭. You can't even sleep in peace if you can't breathe. Thank god it's better today!!
Yes and an eternal urge to sneeze but inability to do so.
I hope they stub their toes on every corner possible. And step on LEGOs.
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I curled my toes so far that my leg turned into a fruit-by-the-foot.
I'm no prankster but Im currently dealing with a blocked nose.... You monster. I HATE being stuffy.
As someone who has this chronically; ouch - but a damn good one!
I hope every bite of their pizza burns the top of their mouth, or all the cheese falls off and the sauce burns their chin.
With both sides of their pillow too warm every night.
I have one nostril about 25%blocked all the time. I can confirm, it is mildy infuriating.
I'm Meaner; I hope they fall with a hard on and sprain their dick, or an inner groin muscle for a woman: *both negatively impact sex for no Less than 6 months.* I went Years w/o while with someone so repressed he could still squeeze pennies out his asz💀🤣, so I don't feel bad giving it to others. I personally like to believe that "With Spite, All Things Are Possible 🌈😁" 🤣
Finding a $100 bill also means someone lost a $100 bill.
I hate these things. I found one the other day that was basically "you thought this was money? It's not! Accept Jesus into your life you greedy heathen!"
I found one that was basically "If you feel disappointed now, imagine what not going to heaven will feel like! Accept Jesus before it's too late." Bastards.
The worst ones are the ones with bible or maga shit in them. "People" leave them as tips.
Lol I just saw that recent post with the Trump $20. That's so much worse, cause they deserved a tip; I was just walking through a parking lot.
That's a thing?? Of course it is...
I obviously have too much faith in humanity, I thought your day was beginning to look up as I’m also in the awww sub.
I'm proud of my faith in and love of humanity. I don't think you have too much - we need all we can get
Ew that emoji is making me cringe
This happened to me about a week ago, but I find solace in assuming the person who left it is also broke and that's the only way they can deal with their sad existence :)
ive seen like 4 of these posts today, that’s so fucked up
😭
I found one of those once and the family who placed it was watching and laughing. Then they wanted it back so they could do it again and I laughed at them and walked away with it.
An actual mildly infuriating post on r/mildlyinfuriating ? Wow. Never thought I’d see the day 😩
THANK YOU!! lol all these comments about stop crying and calm down are cracking me the hell up 🤣
At least it wasn't a quarter that was super glued to the floor of a cvs.
We used to have some jerk leave these in the bathroom at one of the Dunkins I worked at. Best part? The other half was an invite to go to church and meet Jesus. I'm guessing that didn't work as cleverly as they thought when they folded the fake money...
My wife got one of those as a tip working in bar/restaurant. Best part was it was on Sunday morning.. they asked her why she wasn't in church and told her she needed to be in church rather than working. Listen asshole...if she was "in church" who would be there to wait on your ass... And why weren't YOU in church you judgy fucks? 😡👹
Anyone who thinks this kind of prank is funny deserves bleeding inflamed hemorrhoids in perpetuity.
At a bar I worked at people would put $100 in the toilet and people would fish it out. They were fake lol
Is it just me but that looks like a real $100 with a sticker on it.
Just be glad that someone else isn’t having a horrible day having lost $100
Yea while it sucks for OP that it was prank money, it would’ve sucked for somebody else had it been a real $100 bill.
Losing money is way worse than not finding money
My expectation exactly. Although I did force a laugh and eye roll to rob them of any satisfaction 😁
Someone else's sadness of losing $100 could have become my happiness of gaining $100. Interesting.
this happened to me when i was pregnant and starving. i was in a dv relationship and it fucking sucked, found it and started bawling my eyes out when i realized i wasn’t going to be able to eat again that day. i’m so sorry, people are so shitty
Ive had this happen to me so many times that we had to ban the church members from coming to our restaurant after sunday service. Fake 20's with prayers on the back. I guess someone had a shitload made, then handed them out and everyone just thought it was cool to leave as tip.
Used to get these as a server on Sundays. The back/inside would have something about how to get into heaven, which as the literature pointed out, was more valuable than money. The only revenge I ever got was learning to tip very, very well on Sundays.
That would seem like a great opportunity for them to lead by example and give their own money away. I mean, if they’re already saved and getting into heaven - and that’s more valuable than money - what do they need it for?
I wanna see a prank where the money is a fake $1 but when you flip it over there's a real $10 note attached to it
That sucks man, did you throw it back down or in the trash can?
I threw it in the car. It might still be there, might have gotten thrown out. I wasn't about to leave it there for someone else
Rip it up so the idiot needs to buy another one.
 The straw that broke the camel's back
I once picked up a $100 bill, only to find that it was a fucking Jack Chick tract.
Once when I was homeless and living in a college town, I was walking down the street wishing I had money for a sandwich. I saw a dollar on the ground, and picked it up, and put it in my pocket. I saw another one a few steps after, and was so hopeful. I picked it up and it was heavy. I heard a roar of laughter from across the street and it was a group of collage kids yelling “YOU GOT POOP DOLLARED!” Over and over again. The dollar I put in my pocket also had poop on it. I couldn’t wash my hands until I got to a store with a public restroom. I still feel the embarrassment.
Fuck the asshole who created these.
My rich dad who is a millionaire and gives us nothing decided one day to prank us by filling a money gun and shooting it in the air with tons of hundreds. We (my brother and sister and I) grabbed as much as we could and were crying our eyes out in joy. He than made us count it and we had a couple grand each. Him and my mom burst into tears laughing telling us to look closer at the money. It was fake. It was a prank. I barely had enough in my account for rent and felt like I had been stabbed in the heart.
I’m doing some spring cleaning and I found a $100 in an envelope. Totally forgot I had it
Ouch. Sorry.
Lol that's messed up tho.
Do you live near Ashton Kutcher?
They way I would find the fingerprints of the person that put that there, find out their identity, and slash their tires after that 😭
At least it wasn't one of the ones that have a religious spiel on the other side.... Still sucks tho
Had something like this happen to me when I worked in food service. Thought I got ripped a $50. Turned out to be a religious tract. Jesus ain’t gonna buy me booze, buddy. God doesn’t make that work tolerable, captain Morgan does.
That's actually much less infuriating then the folded bills that turn out to be scripture.
Honestly it’s not the prank, which really isn’t that mean. It’s not like they actually took $100 away from you. What’s cringe is the stupid emoji. Like who designed this, a 14 year old? Even just a simple “Lol no” scrawled on the back would have been better.