Claim: Someone once wrote a check on the side of a cow, and the bovine check was accepted and cashed by the bank.
Status: False.
Origins: This
story is so widespread that major banks reportedly make reference to it in pamphlets given out to new depositors (as an example of some of the unusual things people have used as checks). Nonetheless, it's a completely fabricated tale, and it springs straight from the adventures of one Albert Haddock, the fictitious and fanciful creation of British writer A.P. Herbert.
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/cowcheck.asp
Status: False.
Origins: This
story is so widespread that major banks reportedly make reference to it in pamphlets given out to new depositors (as an example of some of the unusual things people have used as checks). Nonetheless, it's a completely fabricated tale, and it springs straight from the adventures of one Albert Haddock, the fictitious and fanciful creation of British writer A.P. Herbert.
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/cowcheck.asp
