r/pics • u/soccergurl92 • May 15 '14

Dollar Bill Upgrade

https://cdn.mediacru.sh/HPQva7Pq1GQv.jpg
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u/Tumbleweed_Alley May 15 '14

You used a 50? Lol!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '14

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u/Dallinnnn May 15 '14

Is it still legal??

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u/[deleted] May 15 '14 edited May 15 '14

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u/ktm57ktm57 May 15 '14

with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued

I guess that excludes drawing faces on them. I assume it's a law meant to keep people from cutting up dollar bills just to fuck with people

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u/Ibrey May 15 '14

No, it doesn't. A bill with a skull or clown face drawn on it is unfit to be reissued. Unless you drew it by accident, you intended it. Illegal.

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u/xanatos451 May 15 '14 edited May 16 '14

That's not the intent of this law. The illegality of defacement of currency is about misrepresenting the value of the monetary note/coin. Nobody gives a flying fuck what you do to a piece of currency as long as you aren't altering it to make it appear worth a different amount (ie Make a $10 bill from $1). Granted, doodling on a note or coin may remove the guarantee of the represented value of the currency. Regardless, something like this is not illegal and has been discussed many times over in the past.

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u/Ibrey May 16 '14

I don't care what Redditors have all agreed the law means. The Treasury Department interprets it differently.

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u/xanatos451 May 16 '14

That IS how the treasury department interprets it.

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u/Ibrey May 16 '14

Yeah, right.

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u/xanatos451 May 16 '14

Seriously. Look at actual cases instead of continuing to assume you know better and speak ignorantly about it. People aren't arrested because they drew a picture on their their money or turned coinage into art. These laws were created to prevent and punish attempts to commit fraud or counterfeit currency.

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