Re[2]: OT: Friday Funny - You Americans....Hee hee

[Bob Walkden]

Hi,

Friday, February 23, 2001, 7:17:18 PM, you wrote:

> I suspect he could be prosecuted for theft, but not for counterfeiting.  I
> believe the code defines counterfeiting as producing a facsimile of the real
> thing, which this is not.

> I've put my boss's face on a twenty dollar bill for a retirement party,
> using PhotoShop, and checked out the laws after the fact.    I think it was
> very very passable to a person that just slaps it in the register without
> looking.  Red/Blue fibers printed on the paper, the works.

this reminds me that here in the UK it is an act of treason to deface
a postage stamp. And treason is still punishable by death.

Cheers,

Bob (taking great care of my postage stamps)


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