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The Sonic brand electric scooter which was handed over for a pile of fake $50 notes in Christchurch. “I didn’t really think it was that odd at the time.” The teen helped a man and a woman load the Sonic-brand 600 watt scooter into a silver Holden sedan car, and the woman handed him a zip lock bag full of counterfeit $50 notes. “He made a mistake by not counting it, but even if he did, in the dark he wouldn t have seen they were all fake because they also feel quite real.” She said her son realised what had happened once he got back inside, but by then it was too late.