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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
Message-ID: <1389@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 17:30:08 GMT
References: <12810@jade.BBN.COM> <555@lzaz.ATT.COM> <4354@ttidca.TTI.COM> <4121@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <4121@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <2893@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
# # I don't know about US law, but in Britain you can write a cheque on anything,
# # so you couldn't prohibit this.  There has even been a case of a cheque being
# # written on the side of a cow and honoured by the bank.
# 
# Sounds like an urban legend to me, simply because I've heard the same story
# set in the U.S.
# -- 
# Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

Our local television station covered what happened when a leftist
tax protestor (if only there were more!) delivered her payment check
to the IRS -- written on the side of a 7-foot mockup of the MX missle!
According to the bank officer they interviewed, it was legal, but
the handling charges by the bank would be pretty phenomenal.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer                   {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
Assault rifle possession is a victimless crime.
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