Defacing US currency for the purpose of fraud, to cheat someone out of money, is illegal.
Defacing US currency for the purpose of a magic trick is good clean fun and perfectly legal.
Or from us defacing Tory election posters?
"Any time a monument is defaced or destroyed, it takes something from us.
Many of us remember the Kodak fiasco, which defaced some of the loveliest parts of the terminal.
"People tore down fliers [that announced meetings] and defaced them.... Male graduate students were confronting us in the hallway," Gómez recalls.
In The World of Life (1911) he wrote: These considerations should lead us to look upon all the works of nature, animate or inanimate, as invested with a certain sanctity, to be used by us but not abused, and never to be recklessly destroyed or defaced.
In literary terms, this question of "association" is compelling: the jottings with which generations of notable readers have defaced the pages of their books — perhaps thereby incurring the wrath of generations of librarians — draw us into a reader's private conversation with their books.
Kiosks have been defaced.
