A regular customer at Post Road Diner left a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for his meal, but the restaurant’s management thinks the man didn’t actually know the bill was fake.
A manager at the diner, located at 171 Post Rd., reported the matter to police on Wednesday, Nov. 18, the day the customer — described as a heavyset white man with black hair and about 6 feet in height — ate and left the diner at about 11:55 a.m., leaving the twenty on the table.
A few hours later, an employee brought the bill to the manager’s attention. To be certain it was fake, a special marker for counterfeit testing was used, and the color did show the bill was phony.
Police were contacted, and restaurant management told them the business was not interested in pressing charges against the customer (although management said they didn’t actually know the man’s name, anyway).
Police took the bill, confirmed that the marker color showed it was fake, then contacted the U.S. Secret Service office in Connecticut, where the bill will be sent.
A Secret Service agent told police the serial number on the bill showed it was of a type that has been passed numerous times throughout the state.
The restaurant (and staff, assuming the tip was part of what the man left) is out a total of $20 will have to eat the cost of the customer’s meal.