Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy does not like the Carolina Panthers. The team drafted him in 2010 but declined to re-sign him after last season, when legal proceedings and an NFL suspension related to May 2014 domestic violence charges kept Hardy from playing in all but one game.
Greg Hardy paid $100 to not sign a Panthers helmet
So, when a Cowboys fan approached Hardy and asked him to sign a miniature Panthers helmet on Monday night, he was unmoved.
“No, I can’t do it,” Hardy told him.
Instead, Hardy reached into his pocket and pulled out what the Dallas Morning News described as “a wad of cash,” plucking out a $100 bill and signing that with his nickname -- Kraken -- instead.
“I was a little irritated because I spent $37 on the mini helmet,” the fan later told the Dallas Morning News. “But he offset it by throwing down the $100 bill. I was a little surprised. It made me feel better.”
Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code reads:
Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
The only exceptions to this are in rare cases of “expressive conduct,” which we can probably assume writing the word “Kraken” is not.
(via Dallas Morning News)
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