Flyer legality

[Ginger Yellow]

There's a business near my work that has flyers that are folded over with one half designed to look like a tenner. As far as I can tell, they are "distributed" by chucking them on the ground so as to get people to pick them up thinking it's money. Now, as a smoker I'm not in the best position to criticise this practice, but surely this sort of institutional littering is seriously illegal.

[blameless]

Flyer legality

I think the police would be more interested in the counterfeiting angle than the littering, to be honest.

But yeah, I can't see how it can possibly be legal.

[ursus arctos]

Flyer legality

It almost certainly is illegal (though I would doubt "seriously" so), but I've seen it done in half a dozen different countries.

[WOM]

Flyer legality

I've seen it done really well a few times, at trade shows and such. I can't imagine a 'name brand' advertiser wanting to be associated with it on the street.

And counterfeiting is only a crime if you're trying to accurately reproduce money with the intent to deceive by circulating it. Printing half a tenner on some card stock comes nowhere near the threshold of counterfeiting.

[Ginger Yellow]

Flyer legality

Yeah, once someone's picked it up, there's no way they're going to think it's real. There's only half of the "tenner" there, for a start, and only on one side. The point is to make them pick it up in the first place.

And, no, it's not a "name brand".

[Lucia Lanigan]

Flyer legality

These cunts should be hung for treason.

[WOM]

Flyer legality

Who...me and GY?

[Cavalry Trouser Tips]

Flyer legality

Hey, EIM was up all night folding those.

[Lucia Lanigan]

Flyer legality

Who...me and GY?

Advertising people.

[WOM]

Flyer legality

Well then, before the noose tightens, I'd just like to say "this lynching has been brought to you by Maxwell House. It's good to the last drop."

[G-Man]

Flyer legality

Carfone Warehouse might like to sponsor that.

[Cavalry Trouser Tips]

Flyer legality

I really want some Maxwell House now, and I don't even like coffee.

[The Exploding Vole]

Flyer legality

I always patronise companies that attract my attention by dropping counterfeit money on the ground. They're just the sort of people I like to do business with.