While I agree with Mr Armstrong here that the manufacturer is not actually committing the crime of mutilating the US Currency it seems to me a spurious version of the "guns don't kill people, people do" (or 'rappers do" in the words of the band Goldie Looking Chain)

The thing is that the black hole penny machines have no other conceivable business function other than to mutilate currency - so their whole existence is predicated on tempting people to break the law.

A few years ago the US government did a massive crack down on websites selling gear that was ostensibly only usable for smoking marijuana, however, a case could be made that these 'pipes' could also be used for smoking tobacco and even as a cheap Turkish style water pipe.

So where is the Federal crack down on the suppliers of money mutilating machines?

Last edited 5 months ago by The Vulcanologist