The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 10, March 7, 2004, Article 28

EXPLODING TWENTIES

  Whenever currency is redesigned, the conspiracy theorists
  come out of the woodwork to proclaim it's all a government
  plot to do something terrible.   Apparently one of the latest
  ideas making the rounds is that the new U.S. currency has
  embedded in it RFID (radio frequency identification) tags.

  A web site has a story titled "RFID Tags in New US Notes
  Explode When You Try to Microwave Them."

  "Want to share an event with you, that we experienced this
  evening.. Dave had over $1000 dollars in his back pocket
  (in his wallet). New twenties were the lion share of the bills
  in his wallet. We walked into a truck stop/travel plaza and
  they have those new electronic monitors that are supposed
  to say if you are stealing something. But through every monitor,
  Dave set it off. He did not have anything to purchase in his
  hands or pockets. After numerous times of setting off these
  monitors, a person approached Dave with a 'wand' to swipe
  why he was setting off the monitors.

  Believe it or not, it was his 'wallet'. ...

  We could have left it at that, but we have also paid attention
  to the European Union and the 'rfid' tracking devices placed
  in their money, and the blatant bragging of Walmart and
  many corporations of using 'rfid' electronics on every
  marketable item by the year 2005.

  Dave and I have brainstormed the fact that most items can
  be 'microwaved' to fry the 'rfid' chip, thus elimination of tracking
  by our government.

  So we chose to 'microwave' our cash, over $1000 in twenties
  in a stack, not spread out on a carousel. Do you know what
  exploded on American money??  The right eye of Andrew
  Jackson on the new twenty, every bill was uniform in it's burning
   ... Isnt that interesting?"

 "We will now be wrapping all of our larger bills in foil on a
  regular basis.

  What we resent is the fact that the government or a
  corporation can track our 'cash'. Credit purchases and check
  purchases have been tracked for years, but cash was not
  traceble until now..."

  To read the full article, including pictures of the fried
  notes, see:  Full Article

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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