30 People Share What Loopholes They Exploited Until Someone Realized What Was Going On

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I had this type of arrangement with a university I did research for in the summer. The class was free, but the catch was that the credit could not be used for a PhD. The double catch was that my regular employer didn't care about any particular degree and gave me salary boosts just for getting the college credits.

I got my Masters degree this way. I worked my university job during the day and went to classes at night. It took me less than 3 years since we were allowed to take 2 free classes a semester. It's not exactly a secret - most people who work at universities also take classes there. My brother did it too at a school in NYC.

Slow and steady wins the race

A Harvard degree in archeology and $12 will get you a cup of coffee at starbucks.

So I can park in a garage in NYC for $65 a day. Or I can pay the $60 parking ticket fine to park on my own street in the West Village and sometimes they don't re-ticket my car. Sometimes taking an L in one way is a better W in another way.

UK has started giving speeding fines related to income. One guy got one fine of over £96,000 last year.

Gonna be that guy, but that's how laws work. Unless it's criminal there is no jail time. The only issue with fines is that they should be scaling so there is still a deterrent effect. Like European speeding fines that cost hundreds of thousands for the rich and just hundreds for the average person.

The word "privilege" means private law. It means normal laws don't always apply to you. You can buy your way out, have the connections to make it go away, or enough of both to change the law just for you. Check out the bakery exception for the California minimum wage increase that just passed last week because someone had the last one.

Spider soup for starters and a piece of spider cake for dessert

Okay Spiders Georg.

Tarantula Tettrazini is all the rage now!

Dang! Who ate the middles out of all the daddy long legs?

How does this apply to the thread?

PJ's is horrible pizza from a company owned by a horrible man.

Wouldn't it take only one pizza to become sick of Papa John's?

I would rather eat no pizza than Papa John's pizza - their crust is awful!

lol I remember this.

omg it's beaucoups...NOT bookooos!

Bookooos......?

In 1999, David Phillips became the pudding cup king using a similar loophole. Healthy Choice ran a promotion that gave you 500 frequent flyer miles for each barcode of their product you sent in. He discovered a local Grocery Outlet sold individual pudding cups for $.25 each. He bought 12,150 individual servings of pudding telling the managers at 10 different stores he was stocking up for Y2K and got bulk discounts since he was buying cases of them. Healthy One announced they'd give double points (1000 instead of 500) if you sent them in early. He ended up with 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles (lifetime gold status on AA and upgraded status on 3 other airlines). He also got a $815 tax deduction for donating all the pudding to the Salvation Army.

Actually, all he had to do was pull the fuse for the entertainment system, wait for a minute for the capacitors to discharge, and then plug it back in.

My mom forewent the battery thing and just called them and hit them with her :3 I'm old also charming :3 and they kept giving her free months until she was bored of it and stopped 'calling to cancel'.

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That's a lot of work to save a couple of bucks, and lose other save info...

And what's the loophole, exactly?

If what you really want is a tiny meal with a cheap plastic toy then go ahead, nothing was ever stopping you.

The burgers in happy meals are less than 2 oz patty and are literally paper thin. Don't bother.

Careful, some Karen might check....

Why can't you order a Happy Meal as an adult for yourself? Am I missing something here?... In the past I've ordered a Happy Meal for the toy, either to collect it (Remember the Beanie Baby craze? I had a few rare ones from McDonald's) or to give to a friends/neighbours child if they were into that particular toy.

A few years ago, there was that kind of loop with old diesel cars in France. If you bought a new car, state will take back your old diesel car for 3000 to 5000€ to help you purchasing a new one, whatever the condition of the old car. So, people bought 500€ derelict diesel cars, while others sold crapped diesel cars at higher prices than their real value,and got a big discount on a new one. Cost arm and legs to taxpayers while helping private manufacturers to raise their sale without any counterpart of any terms....

Did a similar thing with books for awhile. Couple book exchanges (second hand bookstores) would typically give about a 1/4 of the cover price for a good condition book then sell it for about 1/2 price. One of the new bookstores would sell books in bulk at $6 for five, or $10 for 10 kinda deals. This was when books were about $10 each so buy books at 10%, sell them to book exchange for 25% and pocket the 15% profit. Or in my case, I mostly used it to buy books from the book exchange that I really wanted and couldn't get from the new book shops.

If you don't really care about the class itself nor are you seeking a degree, does it really matter it you show? Fun fact though. I was a cinema major and they had single credit classes that lasted one day, several hours, in which you basically just watched several films of a genre on a weekend. No course work. No essays. No tests. Just show up. Watch some movies. Go home.

the fact that you have to do stuff like this says so much about the US health-profit system

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Or you could just move to a developed country where universal access to healthcare isn't tied to a paid insurance scheme.

I had a cop in Houston give me a ticket that I believed was very unfair. I took pictures of the road, measured the distance to where the cop was, etc. I showed up in court with all my evidence in hand and sat waiting my turn. They took one look at me and apparently thought 'we don't want to deal with all this.' They dismissed it without me saying a word.

My uncle got a speeding ticket once. They had a photo of him (clearly recognizable) and the plate (ditto) - only in the attached letter they misquoted the plate by one letter. Uncle replied the quoted plate wasn't his car's and got away with it.

This is also fraud and quite a bad one actually.