Don't leave your canadian dollar bills inside the car during an hot, sunny day. The new polymer/plastic-like $50 and $100 bills can melt under a certain heat.

http://www.meteomedia.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=la_chaleur_ferait_fondre_les_billets_canadiens_15_07_2012?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories

According to the pic, the plastic doesn't seem damaged too much, but the painting or whatever is used for the drawings and design is gone.

Wow. That's kinda bad.

Hope only the figure on the bill melted and it still counts as money...

Don't leave your canadian dollar bills inside the car during an hot, sunny day. The new polymer/plastic-like $50 and $100 bills can melt under a certain heat.
http://www.meteomedia.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=la_chaleur_ferait_fondre_les_billets_canadiens_15_07_2012?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories

Well, nothing new really. Some MackBooks batteries used to explode when left unattended inside a car! So, i guess, the idea is catching on.
Try to leave a ti-nspire, i assure you it will disappear in the twinkle of an eye (or sunlight, for that matter).

Oh wow, I would hate if that happened to my calc or my phone. I mean, imagine if you're walking outside during an hot day, then your phone starts to explode inside your pocket. Not only you get injured but I heard the fumes are very toxic. X.X

So they're some kind of plastic? Actually that's pretty good. Imagine it was paper and the sun burnt the money.

Canadian banknotes were already made of paper that isn't really paper but some composite tissue or something with tons of anti-piracy features on them that aren't really reproducible (holographic stuff, the Queen made of small characters, braille, etc.) since a while, so one does not simply put notes in a photocopier, that won't work. I think Canada is pretty much the most technologically advanced country in the world in term of money printing.

Canadian banknotes were already made of paper that isn't really paper but some composite tissue or something with tons of anti-piracy features on them that aren't really reproducible (holographic stuff, the Queen made of small characters, braille, etc.) since a while, so one does not simply put notes in a photocopier, that won't work. I think Canada is pretty much the most technologically advanced country in the world in term of money printing.

Actually I think until the past few years people could still create nearly identical money bills that are fake, even reproducing the texture, and the result was almost impossible to distinguish unless you checked every single detail, which were obviously not noticed by most cashiers and people. Today it's much harder, though.

And I wonder what kind of paper or tissue they use? I heard money bills won't deteriorate as fast in water as regular paper, but the texture really looks like paper.