Tourist steals dollar bills off pub's wall, and more

A Michigan man who was vacationing in Florida has been charged with stealing 43 dollar bills off a pub’s wall.

Tourist steals dollar bills off pub's wall

A Michigan man who was vacationing in Florida has been charged with stealing 43 dollar bills off a pub’s wall. Like many small bars and restaurants, McGuire’s Irish Pub in Destin taped up dollars from its first customers—a practice that caught the eye of the unnamed tourist. After a manager allegedly saw the man pulling the bills off the wall, a security guard confronted him. The tourist handed over a few dollars from a back pocket, saying he had taken them as “souvenirs for friends back home.” The guard then searched the man’s pockets, and found two additional wads of single-dollar bills.

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