New cash box could give robbers sticky fingers
 

New cash box could give robbers sticky fingers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11397415

Re: New cash box could give robbers sticky fingers
 

Bit of a weird story. they've invented a box that fires glue on its contents?

I wonder if someone has had the brainwave to invent one with built in GPS tracker, or one that fires some kind of chemical that dissolves the contents?

Re: New cash box could give robbers sticky fingers
 

Not really, paper money is just a receipt, a proof of ownership of a certain amount of money. The serial numbers of the notes being transported will be recorded, and all that will happen is that the glue affected notes will be deleted from the Treasury's records, and replaced with new notes.

When you "spend" paper money, you aren't exchanging money at all, your exchanging proof of ownership......"I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of".

Re: New cash box could give robbers sticky fingers
 

How about one that dissolves the robber instead?

Re: New cash box could give robbers sticky fingers
 

They tried that - after the first test, they couldn't find the inventor......

Re: New cash box could give robbers sticky fingers
 

lol :D