Update: I got all my money back from one bank, including the about $100 they tried not to give me back (oh, so sorry, we didn't count the number of bounced check fees correctly, yeah, right) - but meanwhile, she apparently got into my money market account too, which has been closed for so long the bank doesn't even exist any more and I am still trying to figure out how many checks she wrote on THAT account. The cops say they won't help, they have enough to go on with the one local bank, apparently forging 30 checks is committing 60 felonies, one each for the forgery and one each for handing the forged check to a merchant. And the money market people, who are still here but don't deal with the same bank any more, are being completely useless, apparently they have no system in place for this type of fraud, if I'd known that I might have written some of those checks myself since apparently you can get completely away with it... and I've been going around to all the merchants I know of, with my little affidavits of forgery, and they are all going after her instead of me, OK so far, but some of them have checks from the other account too, so I'm afraid she may have written as many of those as she did that I do know about. I'm rambling, I know, sorry. But this really has nothing to do with the making cars smell bad question, I don't want revenge on her, she is a desperate mother and I know that. She didn't do it to be spiteful or mean, she just had a way of getting something accomplished which I assume was get a whole bunch of cash - she did get her car fixed but also wrote tons of checks for $5 of groceries and $25 cash back, at all the grocery stores all over town and within about a 20-mile radius. And the local bank has written me a letter about what a good little check writer I am in real life and how all the merchants that I'd already made good on (when I thought I had bounced checks, before I knew that it was because of her getting checks paid) should give me back my bounced check charges.
On an interesting side note, I found out that in French bad checks don't bounce - they are made of wood, not rubber. Very interesting, I thought.
But I still want a good forgery song... she done wrote all my checks, sent my credit all to heck, darling she just sorta, stomped on my aorta type of song. Anybody?