McDonalds used to give away the monopoly prizes in the Sunday paper. I had a friend with a paper route who just took them all-I don't know what percentage were winners, maybe 20%, so on average he ended up with $20 worth of free stuff from McDonalds.

Yeah, I really don't get it -- very few of these are something other than theft. It feels like no one even cares that they were stealing. Do you just not think it belongs here to mention that you are now better people who don't steal, or do you still steal and somehow not think it's bad?

I'm pretty sure instead of this, my friend who worked at a convenience store would just scan the barcode on a bunch of them on the roll until he found a winner, then he'd redeem it and rip it off the roll.

gansta, I don't steal anymore and haven't for 10 years but yeah during college I did the dine and dash a couple times and stole phone cards. It was definitely wrong but for the sake of this thread I'm not going to hide the fact I did bad stuff once.

Most kids itt probably know what it's like to be so broke that you get excited when you find a laundry'ed (laundered?) dollar bill in your pocket. And this was back when gas was as low as $.79 in the late '90s. I can only imagine how tight kids are squeezed today with gas at $4.00 and all the cell phone crap they gotta buy.

Like, the thought of driving to a minimum wage job these days is absurd to me. Blows my mind that kids have to do that. Back in the mid to late 90s gas was a complete non-issue even for low earners. $13 to fill up your tank. Joy rides to nowhere without even the thought of burning gas.

My father somehow saved one tollbooth ticket from the Mass Pike, and over the course of 15 years, was able to get discounts every time he had to use a tollbooth because he had an extra ticket, saving 25 cents to a dollar a time. Pretty sure we got a family vacation out of it at some point.

my cousin used to scratch a very thin couple lines over top of where the digits would be and then punch them into the lottery machine. then if/when someone bought them, he'd act like they got scratched when he was pulling them out.

he eventually did it to the owner's brother unknowingly and got fired the next day.

Yeah, for the past tense ones, it'd seem weird if every post had, "And now I've learned my lesson: Stealing is wrong. I won't do it again. I promise," or whatever, even if that's all true, because the only goal of the thread is to share amusing ****.

Even so, many of the posts casually acknowledge the wrongness of the actions.

This. Lots of scumbags ITT imo.

My favorite was the poster who called a bunch of McDonald's complaining about the quality of his non-existent food. Like, really? You have nothing better to do that the scam your way into a few free Big Macs....?

Another good one is go hiking with someone up a cliff. Make sure they bring their wallet. When you are near the edge you shove them off so they die. Work your way down to where their expired person lay and remove their wallet. Buy stuff with their cash and credit cards. This only works once per person though. We're not shearing sheep over here. You need to know a lot of hikers to make mad bank.

in high school i would always use the "program" button on the graphing calculator and move to alphabet mode to type in like paragraphs on how to do certain problems that i was struggling with step by step..or definitions of terms i forgot sometimes then I would go look at them in the middle of the test.. Pretty sure this would work in economics classes in college pretty well but i have not tried cuz its actually kind of important to learn the stuff..but yea thats the best tip i got for all you people who are in classes where you can use a graphing calc..i figured it out in like middle school and didnt really use it that often cuz most math classes were easy but its pretty full proof. Might be super standard I dont know honestly i didnt share it with anyone IRL cuz i felt like it was that good and didnt want teachers to catch on

edit-apparently this isn't uncommon. Sorry we always catch the newest trends years later in the midwest. My teachers never reset anything, maybe they did in the super advanced classes or something

My classes only had to reset calcs on the state test once/year. So everyone who was cheating all year was pretty thrown off by this and caused a lot of failures lulz

I claimed I had a hand problem with nothing more than a bandage and I was allowed to do my english exams on a laptop, while the rest of the school had to handwrite their essays etc

I sat at the front of the massive hall of about 120 students in silence tapping away and was the first one out by a long way

We were made to format our calculators before exams in high school.

In high school we had to read a book. I did not do it. Then we had a test about it - we should summarize it. I took the book out and copied the summarize at the end of the book almost one by one (did rewrite some sentences).

They tought that my work was so outstanding for a highschool attendant that they displayed it at their school. lol.

The key is to use the "draw" feature on the graphing calc. turn off your x and y axis and ****, and enter "draw". select the pen, and you can perfectly replicate the "RAM CLEARED" screen. save the drawing. then when the teacher comes around you can just show the drawing and still have all your programs.


i first learned this so i could keep all my games fwiw. then i realized i could also use it for my formulas and gg HS calculus.

A bit off-topic, but the parking lot guys reminded me of this.

Many years ago when I was at Uni I went on a roadie to NYC to stay with a buddy who was a intern slave at Solomon Bros.

We were talking about how some of the dudes in his office commute from outside of Manhattan. Back then, parking near his office was like $60 a day.

There also was a quick lube joint a couple blocks away from the office that charged $29 for an oil change. One of the guys took his car there every morning and got a daily oil change. Boom $29 dollar/day parking.

Never used the calculator cheating thing myself because it wasn't necessary, but I was aware of people that did and that it could be done.

Actually, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure a girl did it this last semester in a law school class I took (Law and Accounting) that had some extremely basic math. Mid-semester she switched from a 10-key to a TI-86, and there was no real reason to do so. We never covered material that a simple 10-key/4-function calculator couldn't handle, so I don't really see the point in switching to a more complicated calculator when you are as demonstrably non-math savvy as she was shown to be when questioned in class, if not to use to use this old cheating technique.

Man, I don't even know what to think about Adam's story. That is some crazy outside the box thinking I wouldn't even consider.

thats expert yeota

i salute you


lol missouri

in high school i bought an external keyboard for my calculator because it took too long to type that stuff on a ti-83.

this is probably way I can barely add and subtract

i knew it would be before post 100 before someone would come in here on their ****ing high horse whining about theft like they've never stolen anything in their lives

there's a difference between robbing a bank, breaking into a car, stealing an old person's retirement money, whatever, and stupid petty **** that's discussed here

if you can't discern the difference or are going to pretend you've never nabbed 5$ out of your sister's piggy bank when you were a kid, go ahead, but don't tard this thread up. ofc most of the things described here are going to be theft, what scam isn't? What possible day-to-day petty scam can you think of that isn't some form of theft?

this place never ceases to amaze me.

Speaking of graphing calculators, what's up with this scam?

not a scam but a way to save money if you smoke cigarettes and are broke - take some quarters and go walk around for an hour asking people if you can buy a smoke off them. just be like "hey sorry to bug ya, think i can grab a smoke? i got 75 cents on me". you'll get the smoke if you offer the change way more often than just trying to bum smokes for free, and they'll usually not even accept the change. sometimes people will even think you're a desperate crackhead and give you a few.

For a forum that has been pretty ripe with scams lately, starting a thread describing good ways to scam others without getting caught definitely bothers me.

My cousin and I used to work in a banana stand. Whenever a customer would buy a frozen banana, we would just pocket the money. To make sure my dad didn't find out about it, we would always throw an extra banana away, since he would count how many bananas were left at the end of the day.