Posts Tagged ‘fake’

Oh Wow, Here’s the New $100 Bill – See What It Looks Like, Front and Back, Plus Backlit and Under UV Light – It’s Awesome!

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Well, here it is, coming to a drug deal near you, the new $100 bill for 2013 and beyond.

You see, those North Koreans think it’s funny to counterfeit our money and this is the response from the U.S. Treasury.

All right, via  NewMoney.gov, from the front:

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Now, see it lit up from the back:

Here’s it lit with ultraviolet  light:

And here it is from the back:

“April 24, 2013

Federal Reserve Announces Day of Issue of Redesigned $100 Note

The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced that the redesigned $100 note will begin circulating on October 8, 2013. This note, which incorporates new security features such as a blue, 3-D security ribbon, will be easier for the public to authenticate but more difficult for counterfeiters to replicate.

The new design for the $100 note was unveiled in 2010, but its introduction was postponed following an unexpected production delay. To ensure a smooth transition to the redesigned note when it begins circulating in October, the U.S. Currency Education Program is reaching out to businesses and consumers around the world to raise awareness about the new design and inform them about how to use its security features. More information about the new design $100 note, as well as training and educational materials, can be found at www.newmoney.gov.

For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.”

Big Lawsuit Against Costco: Explaining to Tiffany and Co. Why It’s OK for People to Use the Term “Tiffany Setting”

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

What’s this? Tiffany and Company is suing Costco for selling diamonds using the term “Tiffany setting” or something?

“We now know that there are at least hundreds, if not thousands, of Costco members who think they bought a Tiffany engagement ring at Costco, which they didn’t. Costco knew what it was doing when it used the Tiffany trademark to sell rings that had nothing to do with Tiffany. This is not the kind of behavior people expect from a company like Costco and this case will shed a much-needed light on this outrageous behavior,” says Jeffrey Mitchell, a lawyer with Dickstein Shapiro who is representing Tiffany in the case. “The Tiffany brand has been damaged, Costco members have been damaged and Costco has profited from the sale of engagement rings by misrepresenting what they were. We will get to the bottom of what Costco was up to and why, and right a terrible wrong.

I cry foul.

You see, Tiffany, the phrase Tiffany mount and similar, well, that’s a genericized term these days, you know, like champagne.

Check it.

Oh, and Tiffany, Costco marks up the price of its worthless rocks a lot less than you do, right? That’s why Costco will take back any diamonds people bought if they were stupid enough to be confused over this issue.

It’s not like they were selling the rings in little blue boxes, right?

OK, Tiffany, keep on keeping on.

Now I’ve got a little shopping to do:

The 10th Anniversary of the SFPD Detention of Lawyer Rodel Rodis – Everything’s About Race? – Scott Wiener Angle

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Yes, everything that ever happens in your life has to do with your ethnic heritage, apparently.

That’s the conclusion you might come to after reading this tale from area attorney Rodel Rodis. It started up ten years ago and ended up involving a former Assistant City Attorney by the name of Scott Wiener.

All right, Rodel, the SFPD took you into a station after thinking you were trying to pass a fake $100 bill, but actually it was real, so look sad, come on, sadder, sadder, cleek:

Via Darryl Bush from a story by Ryan Kim

Uh, dude, you’re telling your story wrong.

And I’ll tell you, if you ever find me with a $100 bill, I’ll know exactly where I got it from.

And you’d think somebody could have entered the phrase “1985 $100 bill” into the Google earlier in this process, back in the day, but oh well. (And IRL, a teller supervisor at a bank in the pre-Internet era could examine a bill and then contact the feds in a New York minute, you know, to check the serial number.)

And if Walgreens ever sends me a giant bouquet to turn my frown upside-down, I’d tell them they should have simply handed over the bouquet money directly to me.

But, In mitigation, you went to the former New College of Law and then, unlike most of its graduates*, you passed the CA bar exam. So good on you. Srsly.

And you escaped the college board before City College came crashing down, so that was a good move as well.

All right, let’s look forward to this incident’s 20th anniversary in 2023, when we’ll surely hear this tale again…

*Such as your fellow area minor celebrity, the ivory-white “Ivory Madison.”

Oh Look, It’s Another Staged “Viral Video” From Those GoPro Camera People: “BombSquad Over San Francisco”

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

Oh look, a Sony Camera what’s better than the GoPro. (For some applications, anyway.  Certainly it’s less dorky-looking, wouldn’t you agree?)

Now, where was I? Oh yes, the GoPro people are back with this month’s purported “viral video.”

It’s called “BombSquad over San Francisco.”

Except it’s not over San Francisco, oh well.

Anyway, watch the editing when Bro almost misses the boat and another Bro has to help him up with the assistance of yet another Bro:

I cry foul.

So, on the one hand, thanks GoPro for taking credit for your staged purported viral video marketing promotion.

And thanks for not using an animal this time.

But no thanks for calling Not San Francisco “San Francisco.”

And no thanks for staging the last landing.

And hey, GoPro, what do you think of the new Sony Action Camera?

It’s kind of sleek, huh? Maybe a little more aerodynamic than your little cubes, you know, when you’re going 100 MPH+?

Oh GoPro, will you ever win?

Know Your Faked Viral Videos, Made with GoPro Cameras or Not, In San Francisco or Not, Involving Seagulls or Not

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

This one was for Lego Indiana Jones something, recorded in Potrero Hill by the Butler or something ad agency up in Marin County:

Yeah, fake.

For these reasons and more:

And here’s a faked GoPro seagull video made in France:

And here’s the latest, a faked GoPro video made in San Francisco by a woman from France, apparemment, you know, ostensibly:

In closing, GoPro, GoPro, GoPro! Yay for GoPro! Buy one, or three, today!

Sneaking Into Outside Lands WON’T BE EASY This Year: Going Over or Under the Fence Gets Lots Harder

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Back in the day, back in the aughts, all you had to deal with was one line of eight-foot cyclone fencing in order to get into Outside Lands.

You had to go under or over.

Here’s UNDER. See how that works? Easy peasy.

Click to expand – well there’s the problem: No bottom tension wire on the chain link fence + line posts too far apart = jailbreak.

And here’s OVER. This here is called the bum rush:

You could get away with this kind of thing a couple years ago.

But things have changed recently – you won’t be able find these weaknesses in 2012.

Oh, your friend Badger’s working on the inside this year and he’s going to let you and your buds in? Well, that might work.

But the days of a single chain link fence between you and your tunes are over.

Just saying.

Fake Cable Car, Real Wedding Ceremony

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Or reception, whichever.

As soon rolling down Scott near Steiner:

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San Francisco Really Really Wants to Tell Tourists How to Get to the Golden Gate Bridge – Signs Popping Up All Over

Friday, April 20th, 2012

I’ll tell you, the first time I saw one of these signs, I thought our local rich, white, old, crybaby, NIMBY homeowners had gotten together to create their own sign to direct drivers the hell away from the ‘hood.

But now I don’t know.

As seen on Geary:

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Who knows what SFGov has in store for us…

MUNI Needs All Your Money So It Warns Us Not to Pay “Fake Parking Tickets” – Is This a Thing Now, Fake Parking Tickets?

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

I don’t know, I’ve never seen one.

And yet, here’s the warning from MUNI / DPT / MTA / SFMTA:

Warning: Avoid fake parking tickets

Internet criminals are using fake parking tickets in some cities to get people to go to Web sites that will infect their computers with viruses and other harmful software. If you get a parking ticket or notice in San Francisco, only go to Web addresses (URLs) starting with www.sfmta.com or www6.sfgov.org to resolve your ticket or notice. You can look up your ticket to verify it. Do not go to web addresses with an @ (at) sign in them, for example, www6.sfgov.org@something.com; they are usually harmful.

Provided you have PDF-reading software loaded on your computer, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) will never ask you to download software in order to validate your parking ticket. Be very suspicious of Web sites that ask you to download software in order to validate or process your parking ticket.”

OK fine.

I Am Become Rob Anderson, #1: What the Heck is This Brand-New, Home-Made Sign on Fell Street? I Cry Foul

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

There’s no shortage of people who want to tell you what to do and how to do it, don’t you know.

As here, where it appears that a small cabal has paid good money for an orange sign to direct traffic away from Golden Gate Park.

Uh, this is not an official City and County of San Francisco sign. Ergo, it is an usurpation of authoritah:

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If this wobbly POS gets reinforced with about 100 pounds of QUIKRETE pronto, then it might last a week.

If not, then the over-under is two days, place your bets.

The sign you see above needs to be destroyed. This is not up for discussion.

“It is a visual and therefore, a visceral betrayal. Stop it.”

John Malkovich, Transformers III, Dark of the Moon