Dollar Bill Y'all

Seattlest has to jump on the young counterfeiters bandwagon. We just. can't. help. reporting this. A crime ring was taken to its knees in West Seattle this week as a day-long investigation by a cafeteria special investigations unit uncovered counterfeit dollar bills in the till. The following day an elaborate sting operation netted an 11-year-old criminal mastermind when he attempted to purchase beef jerky.

A pair of West Seattle 12-year-olds apparently used a relative's computer to create some number of fake one-dollar bills which they proceeded to distribute to a small group of their friends. The Secret Service has declined to investigate and the students will be returning from Spring Break next week to suspensions.

Seattlest has to think that there's something wrong with U.S. currency if passable recreations of it can be manufactured by grade school kids and a computer. We know a lot of people are attached to the ol' greenback, but maybe it's time to liven things up?