Money-Shredding Alarm Clock Is Completely Unforgiving

Are you one of those people, like me, who has to drag yourself out of bed...begrudgingly? 

Well, here's the alarm clock for you.

This design concept might be more of a gag gift than real product, but it is genius for people like me, nonetheless. The sheer terror of waking up to see money being shredded isn't a way that I want to wake up in the morning but it does bring a whole new meaning to the phase “you snooze, you lose,” when you place this unforgiving clock across the room from your bed, if you don’t get up when the alarm sounds, it’s going to cost you.

Amazing Alarm Clock (3 pics)

Might we suggest at first being easy on yourself, placing a lower-denomination bill into this sleeper’s trap before you start punishing yourself too much. From the looks of these pics, that shredder does a thorough job of destroying currency or whatever else you’d like to place in it. And look at that — the designer has placed not one, but what looks like a stack of $100 bills into the clock’s hungry maw.

Careful, though — in the U.S., willfully destroying U.S. currency is a federal crime:

“...Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, 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, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”

Adding a bit of jail time to the penalty of losing your $100 (and perhaps paying another $100 fine) might just make you get out of bed in the morning, sleepyhead.

There's a stack of hundreds in there!  Maybe start out with $1 bills?

Amazing Alarm Clock (3 pics)

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