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22 Loopholes Exploited: The Funniest Slightly Unethical Life Hacks

Roy R. Dec 14, 2023 07:00 PM EST

Exploited Loopholes

Hold onto your seat for 22 instances where people became cunning rule-benders, unleashing their inner mischief to outsmart the system in ways that would make even Machiavelli raise an eyebrow. These aren't your average life hacks; they're more like a collection of deviously clever loopholes that make you question whether you're a law-abiding citizen or just lacking in innovative shadiness. From manipulating the system for freebies like a modern-day Robin Hood to bending company policies so skillfully it deserves a gold medal in corporate acrobatics, these loopholes are akin to stumbling upon the ultimate cheat code in the game of life. People devour these posts faster than they find a spare dime because, let's be honest, there's an irresistible thrill in witnessing the audacious, albeit morally dubious, shortcuts of human cunning. So, brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride through inventive trickery that'll have you grinning, albeit guiltily, and secretly wishing you'd thought of it first.

What was a loophole that you found and exploited the out of? — Save

Exploited Loopholes Not real sure it's a loophole but I'll still post it. I run a recycling center and when Mountain Dew did the win a Xbox one with codes under the soda bottle caps we got a total of 20 Xbox ones. Every worker got one that year. Also Casey's pizza had a thing going that you collect 10 tabs off the large pizza box you'd get a free pizza. We had free pizzas weekly for years till they stopped doing it. — Save

Exploited Loopholes During my first year teaching, teachers were each allowed 1500 photocopies a month. I had 150 students. That wasn't enough. One day, a coworker announced that she was leaving for a different opportunity. I asked her for her copier code. They never deleted her code, so I had 3000 copies per month for the last 5 months of the school year. — Save

Exploited Loopholes Back in the 80s we found vending machines which were not regularly serviced that would overflow the coin box and spill quarters on the floor. We used to scrape them out from under the machine with a stick. Was a good time to be a latchkey unattended minor. — Save

Exploited Loopholes Burger King used to have an app where you'd shake your phone and it would sometimes display a free item. Guy at work write his own app that looked identical to Burger Kings, but would only ever show a Whopper Meal. Every lunch time he'd go to Burger King and get a free meal. — Save

Exploited Loopholes You used to be able to order dollar coins from the mint. Pay for it on your credit card, free delivery. Get sky miles. Take dollar coins to bank, deposit, pay off bill. Repeat. — Save

Exploited Loopholes Back in school, I found if you stuck two pennies together the vending machines would accept them as £1. I had a LOT of cheap chocolate and soda. — Save

Exploited Loopholes I used to abuse the McDonald's coffee stickers scheme for a couple of years, you needed to purchase 6 cups of coffee and get 7th free. You could just buy the stickers of eBay and stick them on the redemption cards, worked out 5 pence a coffee. Then they came out with the app — Save

Exploited Loopholes Older vending machines like the ones in my high school and car wash used to take golden dollars(yes, the Sacagawea coin), count them as a dollar and then spit them back out. You could buy the whole machine with one golden dollar. My friends and I exploited this for 7 months senior year until they swapped all — Save

Exploited Loopholes My senior year of high school a Chick Fil A opened in our town and to advertise the grand opening they put a free chicken sandwich coupon in the yellow pages of the phone book. No purchase, no stipulations. For whatever reason there was like 1,000 phone books stored in a storeroom off the gym. Me and my buddies ate a chicken sandwich near every single day of senior year. — Save

Exploited Loopholes Create a new amazon account by adding a "." (period) to your gmail and get another free 6 months of Amazon prime. Your order emails still comes to the same gmail as gmail is period insensitive. — Save

Exploited Loopholes From 1980s found a skiball machine at chuck e cheese that dispensed unlimited tickets but you had to manually pull them. My pops helped and we slowly pulled out 300 tickets. — Save

Exploited Loopholes When Pizza Hut first started online ordering they gave me a code for a free pizza for ordering online for the first time. Turns out the code also worked if you just ordered as guest and kept working. — Save

Exploited Loopholes My GF worked at a gas station that had points cards that gave a discount. if the customer didn't have one she'd scan hers for them to get an item discount and we got the points for discount gas. Never paid over $1/gal the entire time she worked there. — Save

Exploited Loopholes Enroll in a college class, get the student ID and e-mail address, then drop the class. Usually if you drop in the first week and you don't have to pay for it. Then you have a valid student ID and email for all the discounts you could get. I got a a lot of VERY cheap software back in the day. In my defense I was in college at the time. But a few semesters after I graduated I did this just to get a few more things I needed but couldn't afford. ETA: it seems — Save

In those 22 loopholes, it's a journey into the mischievous yet undeniably clever side of human ingenuity that teeters on the edge of ethical ambiguity. Online, these cunning exploits trigger laughter so contagious it's practically a social contagion, sparking discussions that dance on the tightrope of ethical shortcuts. Curious for more boundary-pushing hacks that'll make you question your moral compass? Dive deeper into the abyss of creative life hacks that straddle the line between genius and "Should I be concerned?", clever shortcuts that make you wonder if there's a loophole in your daily routine you've been missing, and slightly questionable tricks of the trade that'll have you Googling whether they're legally grey or just straight-up rebellious. Because let's face it, the world of exploiting loopholes? It's a playground of inventive laughter that might just make you rethink your approach to following the rules.

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Roy has been one of the internet's meme tastemakers for more than a decade. He and Phil started Thunder Dungeon in 2012 by posting the stuff they found funny, and it grew into viral photo and video creations, one of the largest meme community apps and one of the best sites for daily meme content. If you've spent any time online, you've probably laughed at one of his memes.