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Posted by enr2099 on Friday, September 7, 2007 1:05 PM

 Train Guy 3 wrote:
Other than the fact that smashing pennies can cause possible injury and that you are most likely tresspassing to do it... isn't the smashing defacing of government property?

 

Finally, someone brought it up. I was led to believe that it was considered defacing currency which is against the law.  

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Posted by zugmann on Friday, September 7, 2007 1:19 PM
You can deface all the money you want, as long as you do not try to use it as legal currency...

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by csmith9474 on Friday, September 7, 2007 2:20 PM

 zugmann wrote:
You can deface all the money you want, as long as you do not try to use it as legal currency...

What he said.

Think about all the machines at the theme parks and tourist spots that roll out pennies with designs on them (should be 51 cents; 2 quarters and a penny). They even cite the law on the machines dictating that it is legal unless you try to spend them or use them for fraudulent purposes.

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Posted by enr2099 on Friday, September 7, 2007 2:54 PM
Maybe different laws up here, the only type of those machines I've seen use blank slugs instead of the coin you put in.
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Posted by spokyone on Friday, September 7, 2007 3:56 PM
 enr2099 wrote:
Maybe different laws up here, the only type of those machines I've seen use blank slugs instead of the coin you put in.
Must be. Because I have one of the Space Needle and the date is still visible on the penny.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 7, 2007 4:58 PM

 Bucyrus wrote:
That is the problem with pennys on the track.  They may or may not be addictive, but they are the "gateway drug" to spikes.

 

I've heard that Snidely Whiplash started out just putting pennies on rr tracks.

 

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