Whoops. Meant "would stand" by the soda machine.

Damn iPhone.

yeah i figured. still funny picturing someone filling up a tiny paper cup with soda just chillin by the machine

Waterpark by my house (massive huge place) used to give a coupon in the newspaper for 1 free entry for month of (insert month here). Entry was $30. So i would just go to kinkos and make 50 copies on on 10 sheets of paper. Then sell 40 for 5 bucks each in the parking lot.

Sneak into the hospital room of an old rich person and get them to sign power-of-attorney over to you. Such a great little scam.

Take dollar bill. Go to kinkos. Make 100 copies of it. lol scame.

Federal crime for what $100?

Wow, you're right. That is a bad idea.

This probably falls more under the category of "gaming the system" than a scam. A new Panera bread opened near campus during the summer. On the first day of the fall semester I was reading the student paper when I noticed a coupon offering a free bagel and medium coffee at Panera. No purchase necessary. One coupon per visit. Expires in two months.

Most of you have already figured out what happened. Congratulations, you are smarter than whoever came up with and approved this promotion. I immediately stopped what I was doing and went around campus grabbing every paper I could find. A few were missing the coupon, so it was obvious other people had similar ideas but they clearly lacked my vision and ambition.

I made sure my roommate and I both had a 2 month supply and gave the rest away to friends. The people working there eventually realized we had an essentially inexhaustible supply of coupons and stopped even asking for them. I was able to give these unused coupons to friends who were just as delighted as the first time around.

No one working at Panera gave a ****. No manager ever asked me to stop or put up a sign saying the coupons would no longer be honored. As for Panera, I don't really care for their food or coffee and never set foot in there again after the 2 months were up.

You ate a bagel and coffee every day for 2 months without being paid to do so?

Another semi-scam for rental cars -

If you make your reservation for when they close, for a compact, every single time I've done it, I've been upgraded to something like a Corolla, GTO, one time a Charger. Not bad for the 9.99/day weekend rate.

Also, I sold single pages of Playboy for $1 a pop back in elementary school (though to be fair, I did swipe them from my father's collection).

That is what I meant. Compare it to the several people itt who have done basically exactly that but somehow think they were scamming instead of stealing.

I've done the bolded, not the others. Still, copyright infringement is not the same as theft/stealing, so I stand by my statement that I haven't stolen before.

I don't see how you can relate some of the stories here to playing poker against a drunk adult or just a slight bending of the rules. People are talking about going into stores/restaurants, taking or ingesting items, and then leaving without paying for them (or paying less than they should for them). How is the law not being completely ignored here instead of just bent?

Not sure if I should feel bad about this or not. Went to Knotts with a group of friends when I was like 13, one of them found a medical bracelet that said "Diabetes" on it right as we showed our tickets. He was going to give it to a supervisor standing near the turnstile. When he showed it to her she said "oh come with me" and took us to an office where they ended up giving us a piece of paper saying we could go up through the exits of rides instead of waiting in line because my friend now had a medical condition.

Well for years we used the same bracelet at multiple parks and got their versions of the medical passes. Eventually some parks began changing their policy and stopped giving them out just for the bracelet. It probably saved us multiple days of waiting in line for rides across all those theme parks.

LOL! Best scame evar!

I gotta go out and try this right away.

I know of this dirty old man who founded a kids charity so that he could gain trust and then **** them in the ******* in a shower at a University. Brilliant scam and he got away with it for decades.

I used to work across the street from a gas station where the dude did the same thing. He won $1000 per month for life. I'm still a lil bitter because I used to buy lottery tix from time to time to kill time at my job. Small town, really dead gas station, I really could of won that, those were the tix i bought.

This could be a really interesting thread if some people would stop ruining it

schu: You can pretty much get that same thing just by telling them you are gonna cancel and when they ask why tell them you're switching to [Dish/Comcast/whatever other provider] because they are giving you x deal for a year.

IAM: The bingo hall didn't match up the winning pull tab amounts with the money he had? That seems crazy.

I refuse to let others have fun that I'm not having.

Is it considered stealing if I go to McDonalds drive thru, order one meal for myself then when I get to the window I get handed 2 huge bags filled with food (obv someone else's order) and leave?

That has happened to me and also one time I drove up to second window (first wasn't open) and they handed me my food as soon as I got there without paying.

I figure it makes up for all the fu**ing times I get home and find out that all the things I ordered with no mayo on them are drenched in mayo. Or when they forget a bunch of crap.

When buying sandwiches at a local grocery store you can weigh them yourself and add a price to the bag. (well not really sandwiches, more like baked bread with different kind of things in it, don't know the right word for it in english)
Most of the time i would just take the most expensive ones and add the cheapest product price.
Also when self weighing anything i always try to add the most inexpensive price possible. (i know in america clerks to the weigh things but in here some places you can do it yourself).
Confirmed as$hole

This one is super scummy

One of my friends old roomates (and by old roomate I dont mean me) worked at a gas station. The pumps were the old ones where you move the metal lever to reset the pump and start pumping your gas and stop it.

It was full service obviously so when he would pump peoples gas and go to put the nozzle back he would pull the lever twice that resets the numbers to zero. The customer would ask for $25 of gas and he would pump $22 and keep the difference. If the customer asked why the pump read all zeroe's he would act like it was weird and say sometimes he notices that happens. They would start their car and see they got the gas. No one would ever know $2-$3 differences. You would be surprised at how many people dont even bother to look.

If they paid cash, he would pocket the difference, if they paid by credit card, he would take the difference from the cash in the register. The accountant would notice the cc and cash wouldnt add up right but in the end they werent missing money so they figured someone screwed up a transaction, no big deal. He would make $30-$40 extra a day.

wow that is crazy.

They ain't fake in dc. I see like five people a day get owned by them.

Byrung's post sounds more like a major fraud than a scam to me.
Working 5 days a week for a month that makes 600-800 bucks.

A female relative told me that about twenty years ago she stopped for gas in a blizzard because she was on empty so she stopped and got 5 bucks worth or whatever from this attendant in a ski mask (nj is full serv) the guy put the nozzle in then took it out a couple minutes later, took the money and off she went. She ran out of gas like 3 miles later because they guy didn't put anything in, just pocketed the 20.

lol females.