Like it's only counterfeiting if it is made to look like real money. If you print a $25 bill and someone takes it you will only get charged with theft by deception.
A long time ago I would scan one side of $20s and get the color just right to print. I would glue them in places and watch people try to pick them up or get them off poles.
Exactly what I wanted to do in 2009 on my first day at college. Scanned the bill, hit print, and only the anti-counter fitting url printed on the paper. Freaked out pretty good on that one.
Pot marijuana seeds from Europe when my mom had cancer. One of those deals where you buy a tshirt and it comes with “free” seeds tucked inside. I got the tshirt with the dreaded “Customs love letter” but my mom was like “what are they gunna do? Throw a lady with cancer in jail?!”
I eventually got what I needed by having g a friend ship me clones in the mail from Cali. I posted on r/story about that one if you’re interested.
You might not be so glad you asked that one…. lol. She fought long and hard but stage 4 colon cancer is a beast. The weed I grew for her did bring her some much needed relief and could spark her appetite. It’s such a shame there weren’t the options there are today for her back then.
I'm sorry to hear that. It sounds like you were close and I hope you carry only the beautiful bits with you now.
My mama has stage 3 colon cancer. Watching it ravage their bodies is horrific and not something I'd wish upon anyone. All any of us can do is to continue the fight with as much grace and grit as we can muster.
There was a tattoo shop in my hometown that had put a quarter in the cement outside to watch people make the attempt from behind the one-way glass.
I was like 10 when I found it and decided I wasn't gonna be got and came back with a hammer. Got pretty far until some shrieking woman from inside came out and threatened me.
I super glued a quarter to the sidewalk in front of my house, and sat in the living room watching people get really frustrated because they couldn’t pick it up. It was hilarious lol
We were always told printers had protections even in the early 2000s and that might have been the case but the vending machines couldn't tell and the lunch ladies only noticed after a month when it became a black market for cheaper foods.
Old Canon copiers would burn out a chip, throwing a specific error code. Ordering the replacement came with a visit from the Secret Service and a loooot of paperwork.
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u/spicy-chull Feb 14 '24
It's only illegal to destroy or deface currency with the intent of fraud, or to alter the value.
Like, altering a $1 to look like a $10 or $100 is specifically illegal.
Art, science, "just because" are all legal.
No one gives any fucks if you waste, mutilate, or otherwise destroy a bunch of pennies.
Their existence is basically wealth redistributive handouts for the copper and zinc industries now anyway.
I hate pennies so much.