So, I doubt they would tear or burn real cash ( against the law) but we will so learn if it counts as a loss.
On GI, a man gameshow contestant was stranded “alone” on the island & had a transmitter / radio he tossed off cliff into water so castaways could not tell anyone they were there. When he returned home the castaways hear him learn the $10,000 was hidden inside the radio, and Mr Howell found the wet cash.
If you told me that I would be rooting for the guy fouling the drinking water at the beginning, I never would have believed you.