Mario Dollar Bill: Super Mario or Port Fail?
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2011/10/21 05:07:12
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Someone painted a US dollar bill with Mario from Mario Bros. The person included lots of detail from the Super Mario theme. I wonder if they could sell the dollar bill for more than one dollar.
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What does the law say about defacing the dollar bill or US currency? Not as much I expected:
United States Code: TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 17 > § 333:
.What does the law say about defacing the dollar bill or US currency? Not as much I expected:
United States Code: TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 17 > § 333:
Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or 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, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
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clasact 2011/10/21 07:55:28Super Mario Port Fail
Granted a lot of those bills (including a fiver I signed and posted) are Canadian but that's because Hyder Alaska only has road access through British Columbia.
That's not just my opinion, I vaguely recall seeing an interview with a government official who said there was a law against defacing currency but no one had ever been prosecuted for it.