thomas malloy wrote:
I have no interest in monkey wrenching any corporation's store.
There has been some overblown hysteria in the press about RFID inventory
control chips invading privacy. All we need is a simple law that says the
chips must be completely disabled (reset or destroyed) when the customer
leaves the store. This is easy to arrange. I expect the public will demand
this, as it should.
As for nuking currency, that's got to be against the law.
As far as I know you can destroy all the currency you want. You are
actually doing the government a favor. On the other hand, the Treasury says:
"Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements
together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other
evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal
Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s)
unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 . . ."
http://www.moneyfactory.com/document.cfm/18/104
It is perfectly legal to squish pennies into odd-shaped jewelry. Gift shops
everywhere have machines to do that. The US mint says it is illegal to
"fraudulently" alter coins:
http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm?flash=yes
- Jed
