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Banks will often have dye packs that can be mixed in with bills that are given to bank robbers. They're explosively rigged, so that when triggered, they will contaminate an entire large container full of bills. So the robber is just left with a bunch of weirdly dyed bills that scream "robbery money."

So, just for entertainment purposes, would it be possible to purchase just the dye used in those cartridges, or a similar dye?

And then imagine you took your own completely legal and taxed currency. You withdraw money right from your account at the ATM. So no actual theft is involved. You withdraw however much you want to dye, dye it, and now you have a large collection of purple money that screams "robbery money!" And then you just spend it as normal, casually handing what appears to be criminal evidence to random services, restaurants, and stores.

Would this be legal? Is there anything preventing you from dying currency, if there is no intention or act of counterfeiting? Can I just dye legal cash purple if I want?

If one actually did this, the obvious risk would be having the cops raid your house thinking you're a bank robber. But if you were willing to take that risk, maybe didn't have any weapons or anything illegal in your home? Maybe not so great a concern for some.

But in terms of actual criminal liability, would this be legal? Is there anything legally stopping you from making your town think you're a gangster who robbed a bank and somehow got away with it?

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[–] pfizer_dose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I'm unsure whether people would assume you had robbed a bank, I think this would depend largely on your character / build. I know for a fact that if I did this, no one in my life would assume or think for a second that I had done that.

Would this be legal? Is there anything preventing you from dying currency, if there is no intention or act of counterfeiting?

Depends where you are but in a large number of countries it's illegal to deface currency. (This doesn't change the fact that people do deface it and I've never heard of anyone getting in trouble for it).

Shop owner's can also say no if your notes are too busted, I've had this happen before trying to purchase with bills which have a tear.