Couple Microwaves and Burns $1,000 in Twenties(supposedly because of some chip in them)

[Dissipate]

So we chose to 'microwave' our cash, over $1000 in twenties in a stack, not spread out on a carasoul. Do you know what exploded on American money?? The right eye of Andrew Jackson on the new twenty, every bill was uniform in it's burning... Isnt that interesting?

Link

 

[Yossarian]

"We will now be wrapping all of our larger bills in foil on a regular basis."

OMFG.

 

[tweakmm]

They better save some of that tin foil to cover their head

 

[Heisenberg]

Hahaha...those morons. It's not an RFID chip that's burning, it's probably the anticounterfeiting foil strip.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

That's crazy

 

You dont need to wrap your cash in foil, just put it on your head!

EDIT: damn, beaten by tweakmm.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Hahaha...those morons. It's not an RFID chip that's burning, it's the anticounterfitting foil strip. See how a vertical line is burned in all the bills?

Do the new 20s have multiple strips? Because on my $20 the strip that says "USA TWENTY" is on the left end of the bill and there doesn't apear to be anything in the middle of the bill.

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Hahaha...those morons. It's not an RFID chip that's burning, it's the anticounterfitting foil strip. See how a vertical line is burned in all the bills?

Do the new 20s have multiple strips? Because on my $20 the strip that says "USA TWENTY" is on the left end of the bill, there doesn't apear to be anything in the middle of the bill.

Hmm...I don't know, I haven't seen the new bills. They probably just moved the strip. That's far more likely than an RFID chip I think.

 

How come I've never had a security gate beep at me? How come this hasn't been in the news? How come that truck stop hadn't had such an occurrence happen previously? Seems to me these people are IDIOTS. Think about contextual clues, not just what ACTUALLY happened.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Hahaha...those morons. It's not an RFID chip that's burning, it's the anticounterfitting foil strip. See how a vertical line is burned in all the bills?

Do the new 20s have multiple strips? Because on my $20 the strip that says "USA TWENTY" is on the left end of the bill, there doesn't apear to be anything in the middle of the bill.

Hmm...I don't know, I haven't seen the new bills. They probably just moved the strip. That's far more likely than an RFID chip I think.

I'm looking at a new $20 right now and only see one strip on the left side. Someone should try cutting out Andew's eye and see if it still burns.

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I'm looking at a new $20 right now and only see one strip on the left side. Someone should try cutting out Andew's eye and see if it still burns.

Stick it in the microwave and see what happens. Maybe the ink contains metal or something. The pictures on the site may not be geniune either.

 

[DrPizza]

Hey.. that'll give me something amusing to do... put $20 bills in the microwave just to see what happens. I hope it's exciting!

If you take a pair of needle nose pliers, you can yank the strip out of the 20 dollar bill.

 

[tweakmm]

Just one question, are RFID chips even small enough now that they could stick them in paper thin money and be undetectable?

 

[fs5]

Now we have to take all of our bills to the bank and have them replaced, cause they are now 'burnt'.

a bank would do that for them?

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Now we have to take all of our bills to the bank and have them replaced, cause they are now 'burnt'.

a bank would do that for them?

A bank has to do that for them.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
They better save some of that tin foil to cover their head

heeheee i was waiting for someone to say that :-D

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Now we have to take all of our bills to the bank and have them replaced, cause they are now 'burnt'.

a bank would do that for them?

A bank has to do that for them.

why? how do they explain the hole?

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Now we have to take all of our bills to the bank and have them replaced, cause they are now 'burnt'.

a bank would do that for them?

A bank has to do that for them.

why? how do they explain the hole?

IIRC I don't think it matters, it's still legal tender but it just needs to be taken out of circulation and that's what banks are supposed to do, take mutiliated money out of circulation.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
IIRC I don't think it matters, it's still legal tender but it just needs to be taken out of circulation and that's what banks are supposed to do, take mutiliated money out of circulation.

so you could launder money this way? Also you could take 3 $100's ripped them in such a way that you could make 4 partial $100 bills and request the bank change them for you?

 

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: tweakmm
IIRC I don't think it matters, it's still legal tender but it just needs to be taken out of circulation and that's what banks are supposed to do, take mutiliated money out of circulation.

so you could launder money this way? Also you could take 3 $100's ripped them in such a way that you could make 4 partial $100 bills and request the bank change them for you?

You must have >50% of the bill in order to get a replacement. Banks have devices to check.

 

[bonk102]

people like this scare me, that being said, i wanna go microwave a $20 and see Andrews eye explode now

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: tweakmm
IIRC I don't think it matters, it's still legal tender but it just needs to be taken out of circulation and that's what banks are supposed to do, take mutiliated money out of circulation.

so you could launder money this way? Also you could take 3 $100's ripped them in such a way that you could make 4 partial $100 bills and request the bank change them for you?

You must have >50% of the bill in order to get a replacement. Banks have devices to check.

yeah you could take 3 bills and come up with 75% of 4 $100 bills.

 

[Savij]

Ofcourse the entire stack burned in the same place...they stacked it...

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: tweakmm
IIRC I don't think it matters, it's still legal tender but it just needs to be taken out of circulation and that's what banks are supposed to do, take mutiliated money out of circulation.

so you could launder money this way? Also you could take 3 $100's ripped them in such a way that you could make 4 partial $100 bills and request the bank change them for you?

How would being able to exchange mutilated money help you launder money? It's still cash when they give it back to you. I'm not sure about the last thing though.

 

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: tweakmm
IIRC I don't think it matters, it's still legal tender but it just needs to be taken out of circulation and that's what banks are supposed to do, take mutiliated money out of circulation.

so you could launder money this way? Also you could take 3 $100's ripped them in such a way that you could make 4 partial $100 bills and request the bank change them for you?

You must have >50% of the bill in order to get a replacement. Banks have devices to check.

yeah you could take 3 bills and come up with 75% of 4 $100 bills.

Oh, I see. But the serial numbers must match, and they're printed on both the left and right sides of the bills.