Can people actually be this stupid?

Yes, yes they can.

My dad use to work at radio shack a few years ago, and he caught a guy trying to use a photocopied 20 dollar bill. I asked him if he called the cops, and he said the guy just walked out when he confronted him about it, so he didn't call the cops or anything and then destroyed the phony.

historically, the less intelligent or adaptable of a given species is more likely to die and thus further evolution.

Sometimes I think that we as humans have reached a point where the idiotic people just have all of the comforts and ignorance to evolve with the more intelligent of us. Sigh.

But the thing was that it was just photocopied. It wasn't green, but bright white instead and he said it was obviously standard printer paper and not the fancy cloth paper that real money is made with. The guy was stupid for trying to pass it off as a real one when it was probably the worst fake ever made.