Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave?

msaulters writes "After repeatedly setting off RFID scanners in a truck stop, the author discovered the culprit was a wad of $20's in his back pocket. In a paranoid attempt to keep the government from tracking him, he attempted to fry the embedded chips in his microwave, with interesting results." Alex Jones has interesting theories about a number of things, but evidently a lot of readers were interested in this one.

Comments

I'm claiming

[edrain]

bullshit.

Experiment

[Mazzella!]

Here's something to try:
1. Cut thin slices of AL Foil As thin as you can get it, .5cm... 1/4 of an inch or less.

2. cut peices of paper up into roughly the shape of a 20-spot. Cut the paper from different sources, news paper, printer paper, fax paper, etc.

3. glue the AL foil strip to a peice of paper, then , stick another peice of paper on top, glue another strip of foil above the other location, another peice of paper, etc.

4. Stick stack of paper with embeded AL Foil into microwave.

Observe results.

It is my hypothesis that each strip of AL foil will gather a charge, and try to discharge through the paper, therby setting it on fire/scorching it.

BTW, ever cut a grape in 1/2 but leave a small peice of skin attached, and pop it in the microwave for 4 seconds? /\_/\ Arc...Sparc...Bang.

Target

[MacFury]

If your parents are poor you're going to have a crappy job at some point in your life. Case in point...I have an IQ in the high 140's. A couple of days ago I was pushing carts at Target.

If I were rich, I could have my parents lawyers help me patent my many inventions and continue to sit atop my pile of cash.

Re:Super Happy Microwave Fun.

[muffen]

Brilliant man!!

It's been a while since I laughed that hard :)

Re:illegal?

[Anonymous Coward]

In Sweden it's illegal to destroy (swedish) currency.

Moderators: Parent didn't post any references supporting this claim, nothing. Just a plain statement which as well could be false as well as true. So why the heck did you moderate this as informative?

Re:They've gotten to my eggs too

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say you weigh over 250 pounds.

Re:'Quotes'

[Ratbert42]

I can't even count the number of times I've pulled an IS guy over to show him that pop-up alert like it's a real antivirus warning. They hate me.

Re:'Quotes'

[octaneplus]

Between Alex Jones and that crazy lady that sings with the Elvis twins and the old croon, Austin Access TV is awesome. Respect it because you may miss it someday. Houston blows... By the way, when your children are all in labor camps, don't come crying to me.

Re:'Quotes'

[dolphinling]

And whatever child or grandchild posts appear here (if any) mod them up, again, on general principles.

w00t, free mod points!

Re:They've gotten to my eggs too

[stevesliva]

College juniors (birthdate: ~1983) have been raised with spell checkers and calculators. Screw learning spelling and long division-- waste of time.

Re:Haha

[Plac3bo]

yea, gravitron...and the most skilled people were able to stand perpendicular to the wall(i only ever saw this done by the ride operator). you had to be stoned to enjoy the full experience.

Re:They've gotten to my eggs too

[glk572]

allright, you're forgiven, I'm just tired of ac trolls.