Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 08, 2010

Yes, the old “secret side door” trick!

That’s the 3rd time he’s fallen for it this month!

In any real world situation, Overkill would have only himself to blame for an impostor getting $50,000,000.

First off, fraud or no, unless “Karzai” would accept a check (very unlikely), Jeff couldn’t have just handed him $50,000,000 in cash. Even in all $100 bills (and assuming no air space between the bills), a mass of money of that amount would be a block of about 20 cubic feet (approx. 2.75 feet on a side) and weigh about 1100 pounds. Somewhat unwieldy a mass, even if broken down to smaller units.

Yes, there are bank accounts in various countries to which funds could be transferred, but I think it unlikely Overkill would give Jeff authority to transfer that much money anywhere – assuming Jeff even knew how to do it. So, someone in Overkill’s organization had to transfer it for him once the “deal” was struck. Jeff couldn’t have done this by himself.

Yeah, I know this is just a comic, but still …

@Alabama_Al

Who knows? That might be a plot point,,,

Well, it only stands to reason…. an imposter gave the money away to an imposter. Sounds like justice to me.

Gilligaaaaan!

Skinnerrrrrrrrrr!

Actually, overkill might send Redfern on a mission to recover the money, thus giving him the chance to make his legend real…or completely destroying the mystique via the usual monumental catastrophe…

why Redfern is still alive is a great mystery.

Clearly Overkill gave Doofus $50,000,000 in counterfeit bills…

Clearly Overkill gave Doofus $50,000,000 in counterfeit bills…

I’m backing the Prfesser on this one… GT has dasterdly plan afoot… ‘s why he ‘s The Boss…, not us!

Following a plot is hard enough – formulating one is genius!

Enjoyed the artist’s interview on John Stewart the other night. Since I didn’t start reading Doonesbury forty years ago, I had no idea there were so many characters. Also the reason I have trouble following some of the story lines.

Fortunately it was only $50 million dollars. It’s not like we’re talking about real money here…

Alabama_Al … Are you sure the mass would be only 20 cubic feet? I’ve been to the Federal Reserve Bank, where bills are packaged in “cash-packs” of 16,000 bills. (One cash pack of $100 bills would be worth $1.6 million, so it would take 31.25 of these packs to equal $50 million.)

ONE cash pack is a couple of feet wide, around a foot tall, and weighs 32 pounds. So Jeff would hae handed “Karzai” a package about the size of a walk-in closet, weighing a little over 1,000 pounds.

Serves Overkill right for using old-fashioned methods for making bribes in the 21st century. Modern corrupt politicians, extortionists, and blackmailers insist on PayPal.

Actually the fifty mill was in the form of a McDonald’s gift card.

Actually bherbert, that’s why I stipulated that the air space between the bills was not included – I was talking about one solid mass of paper and ink – the absolute minimum volume. In actually, an actual crate containing $50,000,000 in $100 bills would undoubtedly be much more voluminous, so your estimate is more real-world (or as real-world as it is). However, the weight would still be around 1100 pounds.

As an aside, the Federal government ceased printing Federal Reserve Notes larger than the $100 denomination in 1946. All notes larger than $100 were removed from general circulation in 1968.

And I just heard that the initial print run of 1.1 million of the new $100 bills have wrinkles in them and will have to be scrapped!

Heh. I’ll take them. I don’t mind a few wrinkles! ;-)

Today is the 30th anniversary of getting 5 stitches in my eye ball. Me and John Lennon had a bad day that day, worse for him than me. This was the Doonesbury strip that day.

RIP John.

As late as the early 90’s you could still request $500 bills from the bank. They would have to order them from the Fed.