2007-03-25 05:05:57 · 13 answers · asked by ogarcia_2020 1 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Yes it is, but the Feds don't care if you only do that to a couple of bills. It's when you do a lot of them and/or if you are attempting to alter or deface with the intent to commit fraud.
For instance, those penny squishing machines that they have at the Alamo and at Disney-perfectly legal, yet you have defaced the pennies. They are no longer legal tender at that point.
Some years ago (80s?), some hotshot was trying to show how impressive he was by rolling cigarrettes using $100 bills and smoking them while being filmed for some documentary or news item. He ended up being charged with destruction of currency and some other things.
2007-03-25 05:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by CarbonDated 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It's considered 'destruction of Federal Property'.
2007-03-25 05:10:36 · answer #2 · answered by annoyed_with_the_other_answers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes , it is illegal, but like jaywalking, it is selectively enforced, if at all.. The govt. had bigger problems than to deal with such petty things. Frivilous and meaningless laws like these are made up by people who have nothing to do with their time.
2007-03-25 05:19:23 · answer #3 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically yes. Money is government property and that would be considered defacing government property.
2007-03-25 05:10:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup, BUT, from a technical standpoint, pennies arent considered "legal tender", which is why you can put your penny in the machine at disney world, or the state fair, and the thing crushes it and spits it out flat with some new stamp on it.
2007-03-25 05:08:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You are defacing federal property
2007-03-25 05:12:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You are defacing federal property and it is a punishible crime.
2007-03-25 05:09:12 · answer #7 · answered by Lana Lang 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoops!
2007-03-25 05:08:22 · answer #8 · answered by Roadkill 4 lunch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Of course it has to be proven that you are the one responsible.
2007-03-25 05:08:38 · answer #9 · answered by SUSAN K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-03-25 05:07:24 · answer #10 · answered by Always Right 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋