The rules are the rules, and there is no way of getting around them, right? Well, not necessarily.
Whether we're talking about the law or just simple product promotions, if there's a flaw within a system, it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to capitalize on it.
So when Redditor Rokzo made a post on the platform, asking other users "What is the best loophole you have ever heard of?", they flooded it with all sorts of genius exploits. Here are some of the most memorable ones.
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Little community center/arcade where I used to live as a kid had an air hockey table in the back room. Somebody figured out that if you jimmy the coin slot in just the right way, you could get an extra 3-4 games out of one quarter until the thing was fully pressed in and you'd have to put in a new one. None of us had much money, so this was a lifesaver. The employees didn't really care because what money we did have was typically spent at the snack bar, so they made money off us anyway.
I kind of miss that place. They always had fresh watermelon for free for kids who had absolutely no money so nobody would feel left out.
The now-viral question came to Rokzo after they had seen a similar thread elsewhere. (In fact, we at Bored Panda have covered a couple here and there as well.) "I always enjoy reading what people have to say, but sometimes reposting the question yields different answers so it's nice to see what different things people come up with," OP told us.
"Personally, if I gain a new perspective on how to do or approach something, maybe I can become more efficient at it. A loophole doesn't have to be a 'cheat' per se, it can be a 'path of least resistance' that can lead to quicker or better results," they added.
Guy from Russia, if I remember right, scanned a credit card agreement offer he recieved, changed all the terms to be in his favor and sent it back, they let him use the card but ended up taking him to court. He won because they didn't read their terms and conditions that he had altered!!!
But Rokzo also believes that loopholes don't have to be used to take advantage of anyone or anything. At the end of the day, you're the one who's in charge of your actions, so "be kind and use [loopholes] for good. It doesn't cost anything to be nice, and good advice is free too, so use the newfound wisdom to better yourself or those around you."
But if you need reassurance, there's plenty. Both companies and individuals dance around rules and regulations for any edge they can find. For example, take The Pandora Papers leak which includes 6.4 million documents, almost 3 million images, more than 1 million emails, and almost half-a-million spreadsheets.
There's the ruling Qatari family who avoided £18.5m tax on a London super-mansion, the Czech prime minister's failure to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two French villas for £12m, and over 330 other politicians from 90 countries who use secret offshore companies to hide their wealth.
I am the lucky beneficiary of a loophole:
Back in the 1960s, a school district in my hometown was broken up and absorbed into the surrounding districts.
Fast forward to 2003. I'm applying to colleges. I discovered that there was a scholarship fund for people living in that old district's area (like me). The district is gone, but the scholarship still exists! I applied, and got the scholarship. I don't think there were any other applicants.
Torvill and Dean’s bolero at the 1984 Winter Olympics lasted 4 minutes and 18 seconds, but Olympic rules state that performances can’t be longer than 4 minutes.
However, the timer doesn’t begin until the skates touch the ice, so they did the first 20ish seconds of their performance on their knees.
In West Virginia there was a law that waived taxes for automobile title transfers between parents and children. A friend wanted to buy a car from his uncle. So the uncle sold the car to his father who then sold it to his other son who sold it to his own son, my friend. Three transactions. Zero taxes.
I used to work in a call center doing tech support for a dial-up ISP. The 10 hour plan was $9.99 and then there were various tiers including an unlimited plan for $50 or something like that.
I ended up moving to a different city and called up the call center to set up internet and I asked for the 10 hour plan. The guy (who didn't know I used to work there) tried to talk me into a bigger plan, but I stuck with the 10 hour plan.
Why? Because the company had no system for monitoring usage. You could use as much data as you wanted and it was all the same to them. There was no tracking system in place.
I kinda had the opposite problem. Years ago when Orange were a ISP in UK they kept putting a speedcap on my connection as punishment because I apparently kept breaking their "fair usage policy" on my supposedly unlimited use connection. I kept calling them asking what rule I broke. I would get a long winded statement that made little sense (I was on a unlimited connection after all) so I asked for a copy of the fair use policy to be sent to me in the post. "Sorry but we can't do that" Me:"Okay have you got a link to a webpage with this fair use policy on it so I can learn what these rules are?" "no we don't" So they wanted me to stick to rules but wouldn't tell me what the rules were while I was paying for their top tier internet package?! Needless to say i jumped ship to another ISP.
A man in China purchased a first-class plane ticket — and used it to eat a year’s worth of free meals at the VIP lounge at Xi’an International Airport. The frequent diner purchased a first-class, fully refundable ticket aboard Eastern China Airline. He used the ticket to gain access to the airport’s VIP lounge, where high-rolling travelers dine for free, according to a report last week in the Chinese-language newspaper Kwong Wah Yit Poh in Malaysia. The man re-booked his first-class ticket over and over again and kept the gravy train rolling. Eastern China Airlines officials only recently figured out the man’s scheme after noticing his single ticket being re-booked 300 times over one year, according to the newspaper report. Airline officials admitted there was nothing they could do to stop the frequent diner.
A spokeswoman for the carrier called the man’s free-meal scheme a “rare act.” Still, Eastern China Airlines officials confronted him, and the human meal ticket stopped chowing down. The freeloader ended up cashing in his fully refundable ticket and getting back all his money.
My brother once yelled "last one to jump in the pool is gay," and then jumped into the pool. However, I figured out that if I did not jump in then technically he would be the last one in the pool, and he is still gay to this day.
There was once a big uproar at some sporting event where the venue had an exclusive deal with Aquafina or Dasani, and they HAD to sell only that water. Any vendor on premise was forbidden from selling any other bottled water.
So the vendors started doing this: They posted signs saying, "Single peanut for sale, $1, free water bottle included with every peanut purchase." Genius.
Not uncommon, I've seen the same idea in several forms - One was, there were some Sunday trading laws (possibly in Ireland) where you could only sell essentials (groceries etc), some car dealers started selling £15000 oranges with a free car. Ultimate result was a law change to stop it happening.
Went to a private school where the teachers were real power hungry sh*t heads, you could get in trouble for having your shirt untucked, and some would be real a*s bags about it, literally crouched down and scooting along the benches at lunch time, ie even at lunch if it popped out while sitting you could get in trouble, I ran through the school hand book and it said sweaters with the school emblem can be worn at any time, so I bought one 3 sizes too big and wore it constantly, it went down to almost my knees and I would happily announced that I wasn't even wearing the uniform shirt let alone tucking it in. the a*s teachers got pissed off and took it to the school dean but I was right and it was allowed, like half the school switched to sweaters after that.
There was a promotion a bunch of years back where Hoover included a plane ticket to select destinations around the world (from Europe) with any purchase of one of their products over $100. People could buy a vacuum that was like $109 and get a $600 plane ticket for it. Hoover ended up having to have people work crazy overtime to fulfill the demand for the cheapest model, and eventually they stopped honoring the promotion, which caused the people who hadn’t collected on it yet to sue them.
The company made 30 million from the promotion and lost 50 million in plane tickets and legal fees
i still use the loophole of jumping on a shuttle bus out of LAX to a parking garage(/or hotel, yes) and then calling an Uber/Lyft from there to avoid the airport prices. Brings the ride home down to $10 from $40.
This is cool, I'll have to try it sometime....after the pandemic. When I'm not broke. Lol
When I was in college, a parking sticker to park your car on campus was something like $250 a semester.
Senior year, we were sick of this, so I bought one, stuck it on my car, (it was front facing and stuck to the inside of your window facing out) and then we took a high resolution photo of it. We edited the photo on a laptop and sent it to a sticker making company. They printed a sheet of those for like 8 bucks. We got a couple pages of stickers and gave them out to our trusted friends.
As long as no one parked illegally or next to each other on campus, there was no reason parking police would notice we had the same parking number. Never got caught and saved a ton of money because we split the price of the original sticker.
10/10 would do it again. But you best believe I came out of that place with 45k in student loans, but that’s a separate issue.
In music festival or venue that use reusable cups, you usually pay like 1$ for the cup refundable when you bring it . There's always cups left everywhere that people are to trashed to bring back. Collect a couple, cash the refund and there you go : free drink.
Drank all day long for 5$ at Osheaga the last time I went.
When I was 10-11ish, I really loved my little pony. And there was an app on the app store for equestria girls (an MLP spinoff), where you did quests and stuff. Well, to complete the quests you often needed help from MLP characters. The way that you got their help was either by scanning a doll, or using gems. You had to pay for gems, and only got them for free rarely. I had no Equestria Girls dolls, so this really sucked for me. Until I thought, "Hang on, what's stopping people from just going to the store and scanning dolls?" which then led me to realizing that I could just look up pictures online and scan them. It ended up working, and I was so proud I bragged to my mom about it for ages.
In the shipyard, you gotta have safety glasses. If you lose them, our safety department makes you talk to your boss's boss and have him write a note saying that he talked to you so you can have another pair of glasses. Well, I walked in to the safety office without safety glasses and asked for another pair. They said to go get a note. I then asked if they were going to let me walk out without any safety glasses. They knew that wasn't allowed, so they gave me a scratched up pair. Well, the reason they had those on hand is because you can trade your scratched ones for new ones. So I took the scratched ones, dealt with them for a day, and then went in the next day and traded them in for new ones. Never had to talk to my boss's boss and get a note.
So much stupidity for safety glasses. My work has them in the vending machines, no hassle... safety is supposed to be first, not making you run around like an idiot to get what they require you to use.
NY State had a glitch in their Motor Vehicle system for a while. If you got a moving violation, you would plead guilty, and overpay it by $5. They would send you back a check for $5, but you don't cash it. They would not apply points to your license until the case was fully adjudicated. If you waited until a year passed, and then cashed it, those points would roll off, so you would never actually have any points showing on your license.
In the Netherlands you can get crazy discounts in the december month with a coupon in the mac Donalds app. But these coupons would expire after like 4 min so you couldn’t use it all day. The loophole was that you just could screenshot the QR-code on the coupon and use is al day. Oooh I gained so many kilograms that december. Dont mind my bad english btw..its not my mother Tongue you know.
Bad English? The only minor issue I can find is that tongue is capitalized! ;)
The promotion at subway were you would get a free 6 inch sub if you bought a 25$ gift card. Then you buy another gift card with your 25$ gift card and get an other sub. You could do that to infinity the year after they changed it so you cant buy gift cards with gift cards
Most places dont let you buy gift cards with gift cards, and exclude gift cards from promotions
A good shot but not eventually a real loophole was the "drink Pepsi, get a Harrier jet" guy.
In 1996, Pepsi ran a promotion where you could collect points by buying Pepsi products. The more points you got, the more stuff you could get, such as t-shirts, free Pepsi, sunglasses, etc. They also had a commercial where they advertised a Harrier jet for 7 million points.
One guy read the rules of the promotion and found that you could buy points fo $0.10. That means to get 7 million points you'd have to pay $700,000. The going cost for a Harrier at the time was about $20 million or so.
So, one guy raised the money, bought the points and demanded the jet. When Pepsi refused he sued them.
He lost, but it was a good try.
My math teacher in seventh grade told us if we put “toaster” as an answer anywhere in our work, she would count it right. She said it so quietly that only a few people could hear. I had forgotten about it until finals that year and I had no idea what six of the answers were, so I put toaster and she gave me full credit for all six. She wrote that she had never graded one where someone put that
Our dog is supposed to be in her crate while we eat dinner. She considers it being in the crate if her hind feet are in there.
When I was a kid, I found a laundry machine that gave you 5 quarters instead of 4 when you put a dollar in. Abused that like crazy as a broke kid.
And by abused I mean I did it like 5 times then went to do other stuff
For appointments that cost money to cancel with less than 24hrs notice, they often are free to reschedule within that window, so you reschedule it to a week later, then cancel it a day or two later.
Yep, a local business I worked for had someone do that to them repeatedly, so now they a) don’t allow reschedules and b) have a clause that states if you cancel 3 appointments, you won’t be able to book any more future appointments, but have to go on the waiting list to be allocated last minute availabilities. So one person’s aresholery has caused the system to now suck for everyone.
Some McDonalds have a 4 piece nugget on the dollar menu. It's often cheaper to buy 3 of those (12 nuggets and three sauces) and a fry separately than it is to buy the 10 piece meal.
When you're playing a phone game that wants to charge you extra to play without ads. These are between levels and sometimes during play.
As the game is loading (before you start playing) turn on airplane mode and the game now runs ad free. The trick is to let it load THEN turn off your connection. You can't save your progress online, but it's a small price to pay for preventing full-screen ads with no timer or x.
Some of these games will actually tell you that you're playing the ad-free version when you do this.
One time the local mall was having a guitar hero contest back when those games were super popular. Whoever got the most points on a song throughout the whole day won tickets to see Stone Temple Pilots. What they didn’t know was their contest was fatally flawed to anyone that actually knew the game. If you play a song on expert like cherub rock and hit most of the notes, you will naturally get a higher scorer than if you hit every note in a song like Mississippi queen just because there are way more notes in the song, so that’s what I did, played cherub rock and got a score of a couple hundred thousand, and no one beat it the rest of the day, and I won the tickets.
Being good at the game that's being played as part of a competition, isn't exactly a "loophole", neither is understanding the basics of how more difficult levels give more points.
There is a limit on how much money an individual can move out of China each year. One guy created a shell company in another country, sued his parent company, and didn't show up to defend himself. The judge automatically gave the lawsuit to the plantiff, moving millions out of China.
This drives me crazy. So instead of supporting the systems that got him so successful, he jus blew them off. TSK. Nobody is self made, lots of people and money go into creating wealth for one person, the least that person could do is to pay their fare share of taxes so the system continues for others. Bottom line greed sucks
There was a guy in Texas who bought a $500k house for just $16. No one had lived in the house for 3 years and the bank had not claimed it so he just filled out a $16 form claiming ownership and the house was his.
I have purposefully booked flights I had a good hunch would be overbooked, then show up the day of, claim the rebooked flight +$500 voucher and have myself a damn good time in vegas for 48 hours
One time when I lived in the barracks, the rule was you could only have a 6 pack of beer, a bottle of wine, or a 750ml bottle of liquor in your refrigerator. A guy down the hall kept a 30 pack in his room, and when they came by to do inspections one day they tried to give him sh*t, but the beers were just in his room and not in his refrigerator. We received an updated SOP shortly after that to remove that loophole
I get why they only allow so much though. Military personnel are supposed to be ready at a moment's notice like a Firefighter.
Company cafeteria had an option to order a half burrito. However, the cost of two half burritos was less than the cost of one full burrito. On top of that, the chef would make a half burrito by cutting a new tortilla in "half" and generally gave a healthier portion than just a half. Thus, ordering 2 half burritos was equivalent to about one and a half full burritos and cost less than a full burrito.
My microwave stopped turning on, so I went to Best Buy to get a new one. I tried the old one in another outlet and it came back to life so I reinstalled it. Returned new microwave to Best Buy. Went back home to see that the old microwave had now died again once more (for good) and then just drove right back to Best Buy where I bought the brand new microwave I just returned as an “open box item” for half price.
Probably a fluke, but it was a rare instance of “the system” working in my favor.
Opening Day in my Major League Baseball city: it is cheaper to park at a meter and get a ticket than to park in a legal parking lot.
When I was young (~12yo) I received a free chicken sandwich coupon for Chik-fil-a that I got from a contest at school. There was no fine print on it. No exp date, no "one per customer", no nothing. So I used my dad's photocopier at home and made a f*ck ton of copies, talking like 100 copies. Every week my mom would drive me to Chik-fil-a, wait in the car (I think she was embarrassed but didn't want to suppress my enthusiasm), I'd go inside, and walk out with a couple free sandwiches.
Did it for like a year before we moved away. Pretty sure the highschool employees just took pity on a 12yo and honestly didn't care enough to say no. I work in marketing now and fine print is one of the things I proofread 3 times before approving.
There's a difference between a loophole and outright breaking the law. This is the latter. In fact several of the examples on this list are fraud.
If it doesn't say you can't make a copy, and there is nothing on it to time limit it, I fail to see how it's fraud. It's carelessness on the part of the company involved.
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I had just started my job as a waitress. A lady handed me a coupon she had had for a while. It was an "if you eat 8 times you get a free dessert" I'd never seen anything like it before so I took it to the kitchen to ask. The owners just fell over agast with a bit of hilarity and horror. They had ended that promotion 8 years ago... It didn't have any fine print so she got her free dessert. How long has she been carrying that free pie around?
If they don't say "copies not accepted" is it fraud to copy it?
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Unless, now this is a huge stretch, mom didn't know they were copies and just thought he was a good student getting rewarded all the time. Like I said, huge stretch but still slightly plausible.
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Here's the one that saved me $100.
For some f*cking reason, my car got towed from a Taco Bell parking lot while I was at a store next door for only a few minutes.
$100, cash only, to get it back, because typical towing company.
I looked up the state law, and to request a private tow at a business, the owner of the establishment must be present. A manager is not good enough. Since they probably don't even know who owns that particular place, obviously, that didn't happen.
Got my car back, no charge.
All I read was: "I parked my car at a business where I wasn't buying anything". So you're taking up spaces reserved for actual customers. Not as cool as you think.
some guy with a math degree won tens of million in a small time lottery by figuring out a way to almost almost always win by buying a certain amount of tickets (10k worth or so).
Except, most lotteries you can't win by buying loads of tickets, the prize will always be less than the spend.
Applying for graduate schools, all the apps cost money to submit ($50+ each usually) but you can often get them waived if you're a member of certain organizations/groups (stuff like honors societies, career development orgs for underrepresented minorities, etc.). I found out that just being an APPLICANT (which was free) for one of those groups counted for the fee waiver, and got application fees waived for over half of the schools I applied to, even after being rejected from that program.
Even APPLYING to schools costs money? Where in the world is that legal?
While I was at university, my department at one point switched from requiring students to hand in physical copies of assignments to digital submissions. Apparently a few people on another course had some problems with the procedure on deadline day, so the department sent us a note round saying that to cover for that, anyone who submitted incorrectly on deadline day would have their individual deadline extended by 12 hours.
Cue a load of students deliberately submitting unfinished assignments incorrectly so they could get the extra time.
In Sydney, Australia, we have the Opal card system for public transport. You load up the card with monies, and tap it when you get on and off public transport. Now these days, per week you get a discount on all your trips after your 8th. Well. That was brought in after people exploited the previous rule. After 8 trips, all trips were free. So people would ride the buses to and from stops, tap tap tapping away, leaving enough time between each tap for it to register as an individual trip, and after a few hours of venturing the city and tapping, they then had the rest of their weekly travel FOR FREE. The news did a piece of everyone doing it, and soon after the new rule came in lmao.
A kid from my high school was about 30 seconds late to class and the teacher refused to mark him “present” and made him go sign in as “late” at the office. In protest, he went and ate a sit down breakfast and showed back up with about 5 minutes left of class with his late slip. Teacher threw a fit that he skipped class, but since he never signed in, he didn’t face any consequences
I read in a book of curious legal cases about a drunk driving incident (I think in the States). The arresting officers had taken the driver's blood as evidence, but no other evidence. When the prosecution attempted to present this evidence, the defence successfully argued that if the defendant had been drunk then he would have been unable to consent to the blood test, meaning the evidence was obtained illegally. The defence won.
I wish I could remember the book.
Was at a bar. They ran a $2 shot special for any of the house stuff. I like vodka tonics though. However, those are $6.
Me, having taken Algebra twice, I knew $2 is less than $6. I ask the bartender how much she'll charge me for tonic water. She replies, "nothing".
I proceed to order a $2 shot of vodka and a free glass of tonic water.
When the U.S. government issued the Sacagawea dollar coin, they wanted to get them into circulation as quickly as possible so they'd catch on (Narrator: they didn't), so they had a thing where you could order them and have them shipped to you for free. People realized you could pay for the coins using one of those credit cards that gives you frequent flier miles as a reward. So you order $1000 of coins, put it on the card, get the coins, deposit them into your bank, pay off the credit card. You've just gotten 100% free frequent flier miles.
Saw a wierd thing about Ecuador. In the last few years they've switched their currency to USD and apparently the people there dislike or distrust paper money, so the Sacagawea coins are making a comeback there.
I struggled with upper-level mathematics in high school. In my junior year, I was barely passing pre-calculus, so I was looking for a way to get out of taking calculus, while still making it look like I took four years of math, which my advisor insisted was something I needed to do for college. So I went through the course-list and found out accounting was technically classified as a math class, rather than an elective. I took accounting 1 as my math my senior year, and actually learned things I would use, like how to write a check and balance a budget.
Unfortunately, my high school caught on to the trick, and the advisors made them change accounting to an elective. My poor little brother had the loophole closed on him.
Got back stage to Guns and Roses by photocopying a pic of their album and printed "access all areas", put it through a laminator with a tag and walked right in, did the same for Soundgarden ,got through to the stage area, past 2 security points but got caught, lol, the guys were in shock with the boldness.
School had a policy that if you missed a test, you had to go to the library to complete it upon return. The proctor in the library was usually a sub who gave 0 f*cks or wasn't organized enough to know which tests were open book, open note, etc. I was awful at math and lazy so I skipped the test, took it the next day open book in the library. I could not believe I was the only one exploiting this loophole. That or everyone was being quiet about it to not tip off admin.
If you're in the UK, there's an insurance comparison company called Compare the Market. The way they set themselves apart -- because really, they're all basically the same -- is by having an actually-really-kind-of-good set of rewards schemes called Meerkat Movies and Meerkat Meals respectively. For the former, you can get two for one cinema tickets on Tuesdays or Wednesdays; for the latter, you can get two for one food at a fair number of restaurants, Sunday to Thursday. You get a year's worth of access to both programs whenever you buy insurance through them.
Fortunately, it's any kind of insurance that works. One day's worth of travel insurance for a UK-based trip will set you back about £1.50, which means that you're almost certainly going to save money by getting it as long as you use the program once in that year. I'm pretty sure it's not how they intended it to be used, but I've saved a fortune (and still ended up getting my actual insurance with someone else).
The carried interest loophole that allows hedge fund managers to get lower taxes on their income.
If you hear someone talking about wealthy people using loopholes to pay lower taxes, there's a decent chance this is one of the loopholes to which they are referring.
Money makes money. Money flows to money. (Must be funny in a rich man's world...)
At 5 Guys Burgers and Fries, they give you just as many fries with a "little fries" as they do if you order "regular fries" or even "large fries." Use this to save a whole dollar when you go there!
Worked at Five Guys; they toss in a full sized cup of whatever sized fry you've ordered and THEN refill the cup and toss that in the bag as well. So if you ever wondered why there's so many fries loose in the bag that definitely wouldn't all fit into the little white cup, that's why 😉
My grocery store gives 5 cents off your purchase for every reusable grocery bag you use. Once I was behind a woman who bought 5 reusable bags of groceries with food stamps. The store gave her 25 cents cash. She earned money for grocery shopping.
I'm sure she'd much rather give up the 25 cents and not need to use food stamps...
Kroger has a $9.99 build your own 6 pack of beer. Many times you can build your own 6 pack of super nice beers that might be $14 for a 4 pack of $15 for a 6 pack. You can save quite a bit on nice beer.
My uncle got a stain on his favorite tie. It was dry-clean-only, but after calling and finding out it would cost $10 to get it dry cleaned he decided to just throw it in the donation box. A month later he was at the thrift store when he spotted his tie on a rack. It had been cleaned and was for sale for a dollar.
A husband and a wife registering their cars solely in the other’s name that way if they send you a red light camera ticket the name/gender will not match the person driving and you will win a dispute by mailing in a copy of your driver’s license.
That's why they changed it here. If you as the car owner "cannot" identify the driver, you're the one to pay the fine.
In 2014 a loophole was discovered in Ireland so that class A drugs were legal. Took a week for the government to criminalize it "again"
Ok now I want to now how they managed to decriminalise class a drugs in the first place
From LifeProTips: " Ever need another email address but don't want to register an whole new account? If you add a "+1", "+2", etc. before the @ in your email address, websites will register it as a new email, but still send mail to your normal address. "
Back in the 90s America Online would send out millions of free trial CDs that had a registration code for a free trial for like 2 or 3 weeks, I cant recall. For it to work you either had to enter a credit card or checking account number. You could easily enter a bogus checking account number and get free internet. By the time your trial expired you already had another trial CD in the mail.
Ex of mine while in a texting argument stated I only wanted sex, and in the next message said I was only nice when i wanted to get laid.
So logically I found a loophole, put the two above quotes together and my ex realized that I always want sex therefore I am always nice. Boom goes the dynamite
Now we are happily dead to one another
Hotels/events/pre booked things that charge you to cancel at short notice.
A lot of places charge you to cancel at short notice, but is free to rearrange. If you call up and rebook for a few weeks time, then a day or so later (so you don't sound cheeky!) call back and cancel for free. Rather than paying an expensive cancellation fee for not cancelling in advance!
Ya know, Devil... For someone who leaves the nastiest comments on a regular basis, you sure are up on a verrrry high horse.
This is rather specific, but once in a math exam, the task was to find where two graphs met (we were supposed to find that out through a formula we had just learned). I didn't know the formula, but one look at the two sketches provided by the teacher and I knew where they ALSO met: both started in the point (0|0). I simply wrote that down and hoped the teacher would accept that.
Only one other person wrote that down. We both got full marks on that task, best loophole that's ever helped me
In 1999 I went on an 8th grade trip to Disney World. Didn't want to wait in line... Discovered a hidden button on the back of the Fast Pass machines. Turns out to be the maintenance button and it spits out passes each time you press it.
That was a great day. Bunch of jack a*s 8th grade friends skipping lines.
A local restaurant chain near me ran a special where every purchase gains you points, and every 100 points you get a $10 discount on your next purchase. It turns out to do this, they would just credit $10 to your account, which was usable when you used their rewards card.
So I purchased a $100 gift card, and got $110 in value. Then I used the $100 gift card to buy another $100 gift card, and now had $120.
I stopped there once I confirmed the loophole, and the staff was laughing pretty hard about it. The rules quickly changed
Do it 8 more times and BOOM, you've got twice as much as you did origanally
The Yellowstone "Zone of death" where a criminal can "technically" get away with any crime.
Loophole The United States District Court for the District of Wyoming is currently the only United States district court to have jurisdiction over parts of multiple states. This is because its jurisdiction includes all of Yellowstone National Park, which extends slightly beyond Wyoming's boundaries into Idaho and Montana. In addition, the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the park, so crimes committed in the park cannot be prosecuted under any of the states' laws.[6] Trials in the district court are normally held at the federal courthouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming. However, the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution decrees that juries in federal criminal cases must be made up of citizens who are from both the district and state where the crime was committed. Because of this, charges for a crime alleged to have been committed in the area of the park in Idaho would have to be tried before a jury consisting entirely of residents of that area,
The highschool I went to and some other highschools had ways of giving students credit if they didn't pass a class. My school had a program where students would have to stay after school and finish an online course. As soon as you finish the course, you are guaranteed the missing credit. The online courses are web-based so you can Google pretty much all the answers. Since it's web-based, you are allowed to do it at home too. My junior year, I hated this one class so I barely went to it and purposely failed. They enrolled me in the program the following year. I finished the program in a week. TL;DR - I failed a class in highschool for not showing up to that class at all. Got the same credit after making up with a course within a week.
I don’t know if this counts, but When I was in high school, we had a vending machine that sold smoked almonds for $.50. Due to the size/shape of the package, they would always get stuck and the spiral that holds them would twist around again. Most of the time I would get two for the price of one. I thought I was so clever.
Apparently you have 24 hours to claim an illegally-parked car (depending on the location) in my city so some "pros" will take a ticket on game days and actually save money on parking for football and baseball.
If you ask for a side of extra sauce at the drive up window after you've already paid, they usually won't go to the trouble to charge you that extra quarter.
My parents keep telling me the story how they told me to not touch their phones, this was like 9-12 years ago when smartphones were still booming in popularity, since I was a smart toddler who wanted to play videogames on my parents phones I used a loophole, apparently I would say "I wanna show you something on your phones" and I proceeded to play with it using their hands I technically wasn't touching it but I still was. I used that same technique with a lot of other things in my house
I suppose the rest of reddit may not work a 9-5 type job that's strict on the hours, but let me tell you about a loophole that saved me from getting fired well over 10 times in the 3 years i worked there.
If you're running late, buy donuts. It's that simple. It even works if you're 3 hours late. Supposed to be there at 7:30, wake up at 10:00, swing by the donut place, 2 dozen donuts, $15, show up, charismaticly present the donuts explaining you waited in line 3 hours at the donut shop!
I'm not buying this one!! There is no employer that would ever allow ANYONE being 3 hours late standing in line for donuts!!
When burger king first released their rodeo cheeseburgers (cheeseburger with onion rings and bbq sauce) they were $1.50. However a double cheeseburger at the time was $1. So I would order 2 double cheeseburgers and a value sized onion ring, and a side of bbq sauce for a total of $3, and would just add onion rings and bbq sauce to the double cheeseburgers myself, creating two DOUBLE rodeo cheeseburgers for the same price as two single rodeo cheeseburgers.
I nearly ran burger king out of business.
In UK, as a university student, you can watch BBC iPlayer on your laptop, still using your home TV license as long as... You don't plug it into the mains power
This sounds like rubbish. There was a time when you could watch catch-up without a license, that went a few years ago, the first question it asks when you click to watch the show, is "do you have a tv license". The license is primarily for watching live tv and recording live tv, now the iPlayer too. The advantage to buying one is you won't get some halfwit knocking on the door to look around your place to discover if you actually need one......Never let them in your home.
In Ireland a Romanian man got caught drink driving. Got thrown out of court because he was never given a copy of his charge in Irish
There is a department store downtown in my city. Parking downtown is a b*tch, and expensive, so the dept store offers free (or maybe just cheap, its been a while) parking to customers.
The trick is to park at the dept store, quickly buy a belt or something, do whatever you wanted to do downtown, then at a later date (or later that day even) go back and return the item.
If you frequently/regularly did this, you could return an item and buy a new one in a single trip each time you do this. All while getting free parking downtown for spending a few minutes in the store.
Some stores, offices, etc. here you just ask to have your parking validated and it's free.
Most stores have a policy against returning air mattresses because people often buy them for a weekend and return them when they don't need them anymore. I was one of these people. At the service counter I was told all of this and that they would not refund my money because the box was open. The most they could do is exchange it for a new one, which I did. After a quick 360 at the counter I returned my unopened air mattress and got my money back.
Watching on PC with chrome with ublock origin creates a loophole where no ads will play for any Hulu content
In York, its supposedly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a longbow if you're stood on the wall, except on Sundays.
Obviously I'm not going to be left alone if I do this, but it's a well known 'loophole' where I live.
were you the guy who was yelling "Are you scottish?" at me from the wall last tuesday while aiming an arrow?
Those electronic fast food things where you pick the food had a loophole where if you ordered a burger and then deleted everything from the burger except the buns and you'd get free buns
if someone asks what’s one food u could eat for the rest of you life, say salad. you don’t have to specify what kind of salad. just salad. salad.
"Let's race to that pole. Last one to touch it is gay!"
If you never touch the pole, then you can't be gay. Play your cards right and you can be the only non-gay kid in the neighborhood.
I agree, though maybe not that half of them are. There is a fine line between harmless exploitation and out-and-out fraud or cheating.
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Accidental loophole but my dad used to have a mobile phone plan back in the 90's and early 00's when calling and texting was still very expensive compared to today. But one month he stopped recieving the bills, but he kept using the phone. He even made international calls to us at home from business trips abroad and he was just waiting for a hefty bill to come with the mail one day, but it never came. It turned out, the phone company had had an office fire and all their records burned up, so they had no way of tracking who was using their lines anymore. He could still call for free for a few more years until they finally switched systems or something and his connection got cut. But he never had to pay for those years.
A neat loophole in a pop vending machine in my building that I haven't told anyone about... For some reason if you pay with debit tap on your phone it will allow you to make 2 pop choices. After you select the 2nd pop it dispenses both pops and 50 cents. It only charges for 1 pop. So you end up with a 2nd free pop and 50 cents change. It doesn't do this with card tap or money.
In college there was a rumor going that if they lost your exam and you could prove it was not your fault, you'd get a 71%. We didn't believe it. Then in my first year of college I had an exam I desperately wanted to take, but I also had to get an MRI scan done at the same time. So I talked to the head of department and he agreed to let me take the exam later that day with a third year class, but a prof who knew me, if I promised not to talk to classmates (easier to promise since this was the early 90s and we didn't have mobiles or decent email). I took the exam, signed off that I had handed it in, and waited. BTW, I knew for absolute sure I had failed dramatically. Results came in, but mine was missing. Okay, I had done it separately. One week later I got my 71%. The rumor was right! I hadn't exactly played the system, but the system had worked in my favor!
There was a new vending machine at work on which you could use a credit or debit card to pay. One day I realized that if you bought two of the same product in quick succession with a debit card, the bank would only charge for one because it would somehow think two transactions for the exact amount a few seconds apart was an error. I did this several times and it worked each time.
When I was just out of High School a bank had a drawing for computer. (Early '80s). The computer was worth close to $2,000 and I was broke but REALLY wanted to learn programming. I grabbed a pad of entries and filled out hundreds and stuffed the box just before the drawing and won the computer.
I agree, though maybe not that half of them are. There is a fine line between harmless exploitation and out-and-out fraud or cheating.
Load More Replies... Accidental loophole but my dad used to have a mobile phone plan back in the 90's and early 00's when calling and texting was still very expensive compared to today. But one month he stopped recieving the bills, but he kept using the phone. He even made international calls to us at home from business trips abroad and he was just waiting for a hefty bill to come with the mail one day, but it never came. It turned out, the phone company had had an office fire and all their records burned up, so they had no way of tracking who was using their lines anymore. He could still call for free for a few more years until they finally switched systems or something and his connection got cut. But he never had to pay for those years.
A neat loophole in a pop vending machine in my building that I haven't told anyone about... For some reason if you pay with debit tap on your phone it will allow you to make 2 pop choices. After you select the 2nd pop it dispenses both pops and 50 cents. It only charges for 1 pop. So you end up with a 2nd free pop and 50 cents change. It doesn't do this with card tap or money.
In college there was a rumor going that if they lost your exam and you could prove it was not your fault, you'd get a 71%. We didn't believe it. Then in my first year of college I had an exam I desperately wanted to take, but I also had to get an MRI scan done at the same time. So I talked to the head of department and he agreed to let me take the exam later that day with a third year class, but a prof who knew me, if I promised not to talk to classmates (easier to promise since this was the early 90s and we didn't have mobiles or decent email). I took the exam, signed off that I had handed it in, and waited. BTW, I knew for absolute sure I had failed dramatically. Results came in, but mine was missing. Okay, I had done it separately. One week later I got my 71%. The rumor was right! I hadn't exactly played the system, but the system had worked in my favor!
There was a new vending machine at work on which you could use a credit or debit card to pay. One day I realized that if you bought two of the same product in quick succession with a debit card, the bank would only charge for one because it would somehow think two transactions for the exact amount a few seconds apart was an error. I did this several times and it worked each time.
When I was just out of High School a bank had a drawing for computer. (Early '80s). The computer was worth close to $2,000 and I was broke but REALLY wanted to learn programming. I grabbed a pad of entries and filled out hundreds and stuffed the box just before the drawing and won the computer.
