NEW TWIST ON SHOVING QUEER 上市 Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 39, September 28, 2003, Article 22
NEW TWIST ON SHOVING QUEER
A September 16 article in The China Post describes a new
twist on pawning off counterfeit money."A man was caught red-handed trying to launder counterfeit
money at a wedding banquet at a Taipei hotel, police said
yesterday."According to police, the suspect, Lee Chih-ming, would
show up at banquets, claiming he was delivering cash gifts on
behalf of friends to the marrying couples.He would give the fake money wrapped in red envelopes to
the receptionists, ask for receipts and leave.He would then return a few minutes later, claim he had wrongly
delivered the gifts, and ask to have the money back.Following a customary practice, the receptionists would have
already unwrapped the gifts, and recorded the amounts, and
mixed the fake banknotes with the real ones. The money they
returned to the suspect was real money."To read the full story, see:
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?ID=41331&GRP=B[In the 19th century, counterfeit money was sometimes
referred to as "queer money" or simply, "queer". The act of
spending or otherwise passing the fake money (or shoving it
on unknowing third parties) was called "shoving". Thus
"shoving the queer" means passing counterfeit money. -Editor]- 2003-09-28
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