Playing Monopoly with Real Money
A good few years back, I went to a showing of the infamous film "Watch the K foundation Burn a Million Quid" (in which the KLF spend an hour throwing bundles of 50s on a fire). This, however, was trumped when me, Gimpo (the KLF's legendary roadie) and some people from the Abandon All Art / Association of Autonomous Astronauts / etc. played a game with the Mysterious Mr Green's specially made real money Monopoly set.

This work of art was 'exhibited at the Tate' by the rather strange and unofficial method of simply getting the set out in the Tate cafeteria and playing, much to the bemusement of other diners and of course the security staff there, who were convinced that the players (who on that occasion included Zed from Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction and Bill Drummond of the KLF) must be doing something illegal, even if they were not quite sure what it was. Aparrently the flimsy red plastic box insert was a one-off made at huge expense to fit realsize notes.

Lacking the hudge wodge of readies required to play properly, we had to divide all numbers by 10, but we still drew quite a crowd. Play was constantly interrupted be people unable to understand that the money would go back in the box at the end of the game and does not all go to the winner. We were all a bit worried that some might go missing, but all ended well.

Apart from me losing of course.
( Andy_R At the third stroke, the time will be precisely, Thu 22 Jun 2006, 20:42, Reply)