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Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_burning has an article about this.]] As mentioned on said article, DoNotTryThisAtHome, because it's often illegal.

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Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_burning has an article about this.]] As mentioned on said article, DoNotTryThisAtHome, because it's often illegal.



* In ''Film/{{Millions}}'', set in an alternative timeline where the UK adopts Europ as a currency, a train transporting a large amount of Pound notes [[TrainJob is robbed]] but one of the bags falls off the train and is found by Damian, a young boy who decides to use the money for random acts of kindness, while the robbers come looking for their missing loot.

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* In ''Film/{{Millions}}'', set in an alternative timeline where the UK adopts Europ Euros as a currency, a train transporting a large amount of Pound notes [[TrainJob is robbed]] but one of the bags falls off the train and is found by Damian, a young boy who decides to use the money for random acts of kindness, while the robbers come looking for their missing loot.loot. At the end of the movie, Damian burns what cash is left on train tracks.



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS1E27TheDate "The Date"]], [[BumblingDad Richard]] wipes his nose with a stack of $20 bills and throws them away because he doesn't realize the ATM only gives him as much money as his wife Nicole puts into it.



* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid The K Foundation Burn a Million Quid]], an event where musical duo [[Music/TheKLF The K Foundation]] cashed out a million pounds of the money they had earned in royalties over the course of their career and burnt them in an abandoned boathouse with a couple of friends, ''[[ShrugOfGod with no explanation whatsoever]]''.

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* [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid The K Foundation Burn a Million Quid]], an event where musical duo [[Music/TheKLF The K Foundation]] cashed out a million pounds of the money they had earned in royalties over the course of their career and burnt them in an abandoned boathouse with a couple of friends, ''[[ShrugOfGod with no explanation whatsoever]]''.



* Back in the 1970s, poker player [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_caro "Mad Genius" Mike Caro]] would get inside his opponents' heads by burning a $100 bill before playing a single hand, just to make everybody there think that money meant absolutely nothing to him.

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* Back in the 1970s, poker player [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_caro "Mad Genius" Mike Caro]] would get inside his opponents' heads by burning a $100 bill before playing a single hand, just to make everybody there think that money meant absolutely nothing to him.
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** In another episode, Spongebob and Patrick try to prank Mr. Krabs by burning a dollar, but he throws a bucket of water on it and the pranksters are revealed.
** In "Pretty Patties", Spongebob and Patrick have no idea what to do with their fortune. Burying, shredding, and burning actually took too long! So they just gave it right back to their customers in large bags.
* Title of a 1980s episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero '', in which Cobra creates a device that can destroy paper money remotely, and plans to wreck the US economy by burning all of its paper money.

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** In another episode, Spongebob episode "Pranks a Lot", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to prank Mr. Krabs by burning a dollar, but he throws a bucket of water on it and the pranksters are revealed.
** In "Pretty Patties", Spongebob "Patty Hype", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick have no idea what to do with their fortune.fortune they earned from selling Pretty Patties. Burying, shredding, and burning actually took too long! So they just gave it right back to their customers in large bags.
* Title of a 1980s episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero '', ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', in which Cobra creates a device that can destroy paper money remotely, and plans to wreck the US economy by burning all of its paper money.
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* A variation in ''Film/JustMyLuck'', in which a record executive used a five dollar bill to pick up his dog's poop. When Jake, the BornUnlucky protagonist, finds the bill in the trash, he thought he had luck for a change, only to find the bill had poop in it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Captain Flint riggerd the planet to explode if anyone took his treasure, even after his death, so when attempted to take, the treasure burns with the planet.



* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Captain Flint riggerd the planet to explode if anyone took his treasure, even after his death, so when attempted to take, the treasure burns with the planet.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Captain Flint riggerd the planet to explode if anyone took his treasure, even after his death, so when attempted to take, the treasure burns with the planet.

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