Quote Originally Posted by GrinKyle
Title 18, Section 333:

Mutilation of national bank obligations

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill ...shall be fined or imprisoned.
You left out the relevant parts.

"whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, 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, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both."

As long as you don't mess with the serial number or make it look like it's a higher denomination than it actually is, you're golden. Otherwise, wheresgeorge.com would have been shut down a long time ago.

Besides, itâ??s not the governmentâ??s money, it's yours. Legal tender is provided by the Federal Reserve as a method of satisfying debts both public and private.