July 19, 2000

KING COUNTY - Those new $5 and $10 bills are meant to foil counterfeiters.

They may foil you at vending machines.

Seatac Airport is the latest place to be hit by the glitch.

Electronic eyes in its pay machines don't recognize the new currency.

In the express parking area, customers who try to pay with the redesigned bills quickly find they don't work.

An airport spokesman says new software is on the way from Switzerland that should fix the problem by next week.

The airport isn't alone, though. You may find the new bills being rejected everywhere from electronic gas pumps to pop machines.

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-- Doris (reaper1@mindspring.com), July 20, 2000