American Jewelry and Loan in the famous Detroit pawn shop where the reality TV show
Hardcore Pawn
is shot. According to its flamboyant owner Les Gold, people travel
enormous distances to visit it and possibly appear on the hit show. One
customer took even more extreme measures. He tried to sell his
counterfeit money and the machine that he used to make it:
So
Gold didn’t bat an eyelash when Smith showed up and wanted to sell him
his counterfeit money and machine. He wanted to be on the show. Smith
told Gold he would bring his counterfeiting equipment to the store. A
short time later the Secret Service showed up at American Jewelry and
Loan. They had been tracing Smith's activities since he had been passing
his fake bills.
Gold filled them in on what Smith had told him
and the agents found out Smith's counterfeiting claims had been captured
on camera for the show. [...]
As Gold says, “All because he wanted his five minutes of fame on TV."
Smith actually signed a waiver to be on the TV show.
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