ATM to guy depositing California state IOU: "Come back without a [registered] warrant."

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Clearly the machine knows something we Californians do not. Boing Boing reader Adam Heitzman sends in this iPhone snapshot and says,

Here's a comical sign of the Econopocalypse. It's a picture of a Chase ATM in Sacramento telling me "Registered warrants issued by the state of California are not accepted."

Registered warrants are IOUs. California is/was something like the 6th largest economy in the world and the bank is saying "cash only, thanks, NEXT!"

And in the state capital, no less. [shakes head with sense of foreboding doom].