Important text: with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued
No destroying money for the express purpose of destroying money.
Exactly! My comment refers to actually making a bill potentially MORE valuable in its re-issuance to another party after the signing event!
(legality of such statement to be reviewed by people qualified to do so, and kudos to those that find in favor and BOOOOO to those who admonish!)
So the K Foundation stunt (burning £1million in cash) would have been illegal in the US?
"-STATUTE- 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. "
18 USC CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C17.txt