Uncut currency wraping paper makes Christmas morning a felony

You can wrap your Christmas presents like a stroke victim, or you can wrap them like Carlos Slim Helú, in sheets of crisp, uncut $50 dollar bills. The drawback: these bills come from the treasury themselves, they are real currency and they cost more uncut than they would simply by ripping the bills out of your wallet, dipping them in glue and slapping them on a package. Not to mention the fact that ripping this wrapping paper on Christmas morning is a federal crime.

Uncut Currency [Money Factory via OG via Oh Gizmo]

[#1 posted by Anonymous , December 3, 2008 4:52 AM]

It's not a crime to deface American money -- only to spend defaced money, particularly with the attempt to deceive (i.e., pasting the corners of a Hamilton onto a Washington.)

[#2 posted by Anonymous , December 3, 2008 6:57 AM]

Shouldn't that be a double "p"? Wrapping? It looks like it ought to be pronounced like "raping".

[#3 posted by Halloween Jack , December 3, 2008 10:38 AM]

Real gift-wrapping pros don't use tape.

[#4 posted by spazzm , December 3, 2008 1:47 PM]

16x50=800. So this is an $800 bill. How's that inflation going?

[#5 posted by zuzu , December 3, 2008 2:17 PM]

How's that inflation going?

In the voice of Mr. Burns: Excellent.

[#6 posted by semiotix , December 3, 2008 10:27 PM]

And the kids will book?"

[#7 posted by semiotix , December 3, 2008 10:29 PM]

Oops. That was supposed to read:

And the kids will still just heft the package, shake it once or twice, roll their eyes, and sneer, "another book?"

[#8 posted by jeaguilar , December 4, 2008 8:31 AM]

One of the challenges that the BEP has with this product is credit card fraud since it is an easy way to turn a stolen credit card into cold hard cash.