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That was the most surprising thing to me by far. Dangerous game to play, imagine trying to convince a judge that "I was not intentionally looking for trouble".

• ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  Yeah, no government likes it when you mess with their currency.
  • xpe 4y ago
    Right. It also would seem likely that at least one protector of said currency (the agent in the story) didn't know his domain (currency sheets are legit). Unless he just wanted to harrass Woz, or maybe because they suspected him of other mischief and wanted to see if he misstepped.
    • tgsovlerkhgsel 4y ago
      You can buy currency sheets. You cannot buy perforated currency booklets. It's reasonable to be suspicious about the latter, especially as I suspect Woz didn't start the interview with "I bought the currency sheets then had them turned into this" - and anyways, by that time the agent had a checklist to run through, likely including the passport numbers etc. as mentioned in the article. Even knowing that the bills are being sold in sheets, you wouldn't want to be the agent who let someone go who was doing everything exactly as Woz did except for getting the currency sheets from the guy printing the North Korean superbills...