Yeah, the U.S. Mint does that. Who didn't know that? Also it sounds like he lives in a pig sty.

He didn't get a "refund" from the bank, he got new bills from the Mint.

You see for every paycheck that I've ever got -I've put 10% in cash in storage. Now it looks like mice roaches have eaten all my money -All $10 $1,000,000 of it. Can I have a refund?

Yeah, the U.S. Mint does that. Who didn't know that?

I saw a TV newsmagazine segment on mint cash replacement a decade or so ago. They said replacement of eaten money was a routine request. Usually termites were the cause, IIRC.

a bear ate my 401k

refund?

SaturnFX: a bear market ate my 401k
refund?

The truth is often closer than it seems.

SaturnFX: a bear ate my 401k

refund?

I lol'd

The mouse scam did not work out as well for these guys:



/link hotter than a Neil Peart drum solo

Were the mice Obama supporters?

Pretty soon that mouse shiat will be worth more than the paper it covers.

The_Six_Fingered_Man: SaturnFX: a bear ate my 401k

refund?

I lol'd

Nice simulpost.
*secret handshake*

Damn this makes the news? The US government replaces old notes all the time.

Drug dealers use them to launder money sometimes. There was an article a while back.

It is news the bank was so nice to go through the notes and reassemble it, instead of making him do it himself.

It was quite obvious....

FTA:

Johns said mint officials instructed her to send the reassembled bills and the feces and feathers to them in Washington, D.C.

The bills, fine.

But why the rest? Just to be sure they're not reimbursing somebody who shreds currency for fun? Do they need to figure out the species so they can develop some future countermeasures? Or does somebody believe in voodoo?

Bank manager Michelle Johns said Wednesday she and two staffers picked through rodent droppings and bird feathers in the bag and reassembled the bills.


Michelle and staff must get paid really well.....

Wow! I think i just did an Ed McMahon chortle. Or is that a chuckle? A guffaw...even.

tukatz: Bank manager Michelle Johns said Wednesday she and two staffers picked through rodent droppings and bird feathers in the bag and reassembled the bills.

Sorry, I havent actually read the article...but is that what banks are now using as currency instead of money?

damned crash! what next?
/goes to collect droppings and feathers

how many droppings equal a dollar?

Maybe the mice had AIDS?

SaturnFX: a bear ate my 401k

refund?

aren't you clever. i LOL'd.

BigDumbGuy: Yeah, the U.S. Mint does that. Who didn't know that? Also it sounds like he lives in a pig sty.

Pig shiat was one of the few ingredients not mentioned.

Rodent droppings and bird feathers .. on a desk at his home .. and he "misplaced" the bag with $1000 from March to August? (A ziplok bag of money? Hmmm.)

SaturnFX: a bear ate my 401k

refund?

Yes, they do that if they can read both serial numbers or there is more than 2/3-ish of the bill intact. A friend of mine got some money that had been burned in a car fire (he was hiding it from his wife and ended up spending it on a divorce).

My dog destroyed money on a coffee table, once. I was replaced eventually by the US Mint in SF. She always was a money hungry biatch.

Solid State Vittles: The mouse scam did not work out as well for these guys:

Um. Yeah it did... in a roundabout way.

Johns said mint officials instructed her to send the reassembled bills and the feces and feathers to them in Washington, D.C

What should I do with the bag of money I accidentally dropped a deuce into?

Yeah I wouldn't have picked through feces to reassemble those bills, and osha would have a problem with this.

A landscaper who works for my father's company ended up running over a few 20$ bills with a lawnmower a few months ago. The bills were shredded into a bunch of different pieces, but the bank replaced 3 of the 4 bills.

They said as long as the serial number is in tact you can replace your bills.

Why didn't they just tell him to do it himself? Ugh...that's the ultimate case of "this is NOT in my job description!"

The US Mint doesn't handle bills, only coins.

The Treasury's Bureau of Engraving handles damaged bills. You don't need both serial numbers, only 51% of the bill in order to exchange it.

http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/8/39

//just saying

tukatz: Bank manager Michelle Johns said Wednesday she and two staffers picked through rodent droppings and bird feathers in the bag and reassembled the bills.


Michelle and staff must get paid really well.....

Quoth I. I wouldn't do that for anything less than about $30 an hour and five coffee breaks a day.

SaturnFX: a bear ate my 401k

refund?

Awesome! *explains joke to President Bush*

I'm trying to figure out a Ron Paul joke, mentioning mice and gold... I'm coming up empty.

extreme glow: The US Mint doesn't handle bills, only coins.

The Treasury's Bureau of Engraving handles damaged bills. You don't need both serial numbers, only 51% of the bill in order to exchange it.

http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/8/39

//just saying

Good point. I knew that and am not sure why I said U.S. Mint. *rereads article* Ah, that's why.

/I work for the U.S. Mint. Therefore...

Feces and Feathers...

Wicked-awesome band name.

Some gov't agency has a batch of little old lady volunteers who sift through piles of damaged bills.

I remember they were shown going through crosscut shredded bills and were picking out noses. Since each bill has only one nose they were considering that proof.

The trick is that they have to show each bill refunded is accounted for by something substantial. If the mice only nibbled from one end, the other would work fine. If the mice made bedding, it's a bigger problem.

That will teach him to put his money where his mouse is.

BrianJLG: Were the mice Obama supporters?

They were the same mice that approve links for FARK.

rjsjayhawk: That will teach him to put his money where his mouse is.

All kinds of win right there.

Those bank workers are idiots, should have let him do it himself.

goonland: Feces and Feathers...

Wicked-awesome band name.

Nah... That's more of an album name. Maybe from an 80's hair metal band named, "Owl."

You can't blame the mice though -- Magrathean services don't come cheap.

Amateur. I know a guy who had stashed away 13 $1,000 bills about 40 years ago. Mice nibbled the serial numbers off most of the bills. They had to be sent away to the Bank of Canada, which honoured them in the end. True story.

Purelilac: Yes, they do that if they can read both serial numbers or there is more than 2/3-ish of the bill intact. A friend of mine got some money that had been burned in a car fire (he was hiding it from his wife and ended up spending it on a divorce).

Oh, the irony! Good One

I know it's been said, but I can't believe the bank reassembled it for him. I would have made him do it himself if he wanted the money back.

On another note, I found half a twenty in an icy block of snow last spring and took it to the bank where they gave me a new one. They said as long as it's more than half the bill they'll give you a replacement.