Loopholes You Can Exploit to Cheat the System

In May 1999, David Phillips, an engineer living in Davis, California, was strolling through the Hil frozen food store at his local supermarket when he noticed a promotion on a carton of Healthy Choice brand frozen food. According to the promotion, he could earn 500 airline miles which are loyalty. points that can be redeemed for flights, hotels and certain travel expenses for every 10 Healthy Choice product barcodes he sent to the company in December. Now many people ignore promotions like this, assuming it's not worth their time or that they would need them. Having to spend hundreds of dollars for the winnings to really be worth anything, however, David started doing some mental math and realized something, if he did it right, he and his family would never have to pay for another flight in their entire lives. and what had I imagined? and what he was about to do next, stay tuned as we take a deep dive into this story and many other stories of people finding

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So, as David was reading this Frozen package, he noticed the very small print he said. In fact, he could double the airline miles he earned, accumulating 1000 airline miles for every 10 barcodes, if he published them before the end of the month. He wanted to take his family to Europe for the summer and realized this could be his golden ticket. He usually participates. companies would offer a couple of airline miles for every dollar spent with them, now Healthy Choice frozen meals are only $2 a time for 1, so $20 for 1,000 airline miles doesn't sound like a bad deal until you realize that I needed at least 35,000 air miles.

For a domestic flight in North America, it's $700 worth of frozen food for a one-way flight, but David realized that the promotion said it applied to any Healthy Choice product, so he went looking for a cheaper option about AES away and found cans of Healthy Choice. soup for only 90 dollars each, much better, he filled his cart with them, but David's grand plan meant he needed more, much more, so after loading up the soup he headed to his local Discount Warehouse store known as Grocery Outlet and that was where he found the sweet mother load. Individual Healthy Choice pudding cups for just 25 cents a piece, each with its own glorious barcode.

David cleaned out the entire pudding store, but he wanted to go even further, literally, so he asked the manager for the addresses of all the other grocery stores in the area where he spent the entire weekend traveling throughout the region shopping up the last cup of Healthy Choice pudding she could get her hands on, from Davis to Fresno, she even placed an order at her local store for 60 more boxes and when she returned there were two whole ones. Pudding pops with his name on them, the crazy shopping for chocolate desserts in total of an incredible 12,150 cups talk about ping in hard work, but with them all taking up space in and around David's garden, some nosy locals and critics began to think that David had lost his way, however, he was not deterred, in fact, he boasted about his Hall.

He posted photos of his bookings on the Flyers website, a site dedicated to finding the best travel deals. He wrote his posts with the username. pudding boy and from there an online pudding legend was born, but David had a big problem on his hands: the end of May deadline to earn double miles was fast approaching and there was simply no way he could boot up all 12,150 codes At the same time, David came up with another clever plan: He packed up all the pudding and drove to two local food banks and the Sacramento Salvation Army, where volunteers agreed to tear off the barcodes in exchange for the generous donation of food with all these additional Helping Hands. able to collect every last barcode and post them to Healthy Choice, so all David could do was wait with a big breath, what if Healthy Choice blindsided him on some technicality because surely this deal was too good to be true?

Then, a few weeks later, a big package arrived in the mail from Healthy Choice. Inside were 2.56 certificates, each granting David 500 air miles. Any math expert watching can calculate that sum in his head, but don't worry, I have a calculator and I can. Tell you that it works out to a total of 1,253,000 air miles. David split 216,000 airline miles between his United Delta and Northwest accounts and posted the remaining 1,37,000 airline miles to his American Airlines account, surpassing the one million miles Mark David earned. Gold Advantage status with that airline entitles him to priority boarding upgrades and lifetime bonus miles, so taking his entire family to Europe this summer would have cost David several thousand dollars in tickets alone.

By claiming those 1.25 million airline miles, he had effectively paid for 31 trips to Europe from North America for less than $100 per ticket and, by donating pudding to a charity, he also claimed a tax of $800 and $15, meaning each of those 31 bills only cost David a With just $75, all that Mental Math was worth it in the end, after After buying all that pudding, David was able to jet set to any sunny beach in the world for practically nothing. After buying all that pudding, you'd think David would be sick of it, but he actually kept 100 cups for himself, and while his family may have been hesitant at first, I know I would if my husband spent $3,000 on pudding.

Over the course of one weekend, they enjoyed memorable trips to Italy, Peru, Mexico, and the East Coast of the U.S. The Philips family traveled so much that the pudding miles have now run out, so it's not the lifetime supply of flights you could have had, but it's pretty close. If only they had more grocery stores in Fresno, but the legend of the pudding boys still lives on. an internet legend as a classic tale of a smart guy who figured out how to game the

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man. I'm sure he would have paid a lot more attention in math class if pudding had been involved, home sweet home, they say New York is the city that never sleeps.

Probably because no one who lives there can afford to sleep, the average rental cost is $4,295 per month and that translates to about $77 per square foot of space, but if you want to know how to afford to live in Manhattan, ask a taxi driver . Not only do they know the city streets like the back of their hand, but they also know how to hack the city charter in 2015. Timg Otor was a taxi driver who received a clever tip about a specific property law on Timj's advice. rented a room at the Chelsea Highline hotel and then the next day applied for a 6 month lease, the hotel was registered as SRO or single room occupancy, which generally describes a residential building for low-income tenants to protect these tenants from dubious landlords.

New York State issued a number of laws, such as a little-known Rent Stabilization Administrative Code that dictates that SRO occupants who apply for a six-month lease will become permanent tenants, the room that the former Timg had requested was officially listed for $0 monthly rent, meaning I now had free rent. room for life, but after applying for the lease, the hotel owner realized what was happening and locked Tim G out of the room on purpose, preventing him from becoming a permanent tenant to claim the room he. Timi had to return to Manhattan Housing Court to enforce the law.

After a long legal battle, the judge finally ruled in his favor. One of the decisive factors that ruled against the owner was that the previous year another taxi driver had applied the exact same law. Hamidu Gua had secured a permanent room for a stabilized rent of just $226 a year. Meanwhile, Buddy Joe Stevens of Hamid Do, another taxi driver had been living at the hotel for the past 20 years for a similarly low amount. These housing laws apply to other hotels in New York, including the Waldorf and the Marriott Marquee, and can be enforced by However, anyone should not expect to go to any hotel in New York and receive a free room for a hotel to be subject to the code; must have been built on or before July 1, 1969 and contains six or more rental accommodations Prices at the time were set at less than $350 per month, so unfortunately many of New York's modern luxury hotels they do not apply.

However, old Tim G's story is proof that you should always read the fine print, as you could become the hotel. guest who never has to go out so free vacation trip for life or free apartment for life which one would you prefer for vacation hit the like button for free apartment why not also book a spot on this channel and hit subscribe? All done nicely, now let's take a look at even more

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. The Perfect Crime Yellowstone National Park is one of America's great national beauties, but it also comes with plenty of dangers.

Park rangers will warn you about getting too close to grizzly bears while scientists will warn you about the 500 active geysers throughout the park that shoot scalding water up to 180 feet into the air, but there's an even more dangerous spot in the park known ominously as the death zone. Why such a worrying name? Well, it's because it is the only place in the United States where you can legally commit unpunished homicide because in this 50 square mile area no laws apply. To understand why this loophole exists, you must first know that Yellowstone National Park actually covers three states, while 96% of the park. is in Wyoming, a smaller 3% section is north of Montana and an even smaller 1% portion is in Idaho and that's where the kill zone is because most of the park is in Wyoming.

Any crime committed within the boundaries of Yellowstone is prosecuted. in the United States District Court for Wyoming, but for a crime to be punished, the defendant must first receive a fair trial. The right to a fair trial is enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which decrees that juries in federal criminal cases. must be made up of citizens who are from both the district and the state where the crime was committed but the death zone while in Idaho is completely wild if a crime was committed there there are no residents in the area to form a jury without a fair trial , you cannot be charged with any crime, so on a technicality this area is a lawless zone and is therefore best avoided as a campsite.

Now, this loophole was discovered by Professor Brian C of Michigan State University, who is writing an essay on the sixth amendment. and the right to a fair trial. He discovered this glaring legal error by pure chance. He published an essay in 2005 titled The Perfect Crime as a means of alerting Congress to issue legislation to fix the loophole, but Congress has so far been slow to take action. Fortunately, it appears that no crimes have been committed in the area that we know of, although in 2022 an Idaho legislature called for the death zone loophole to be closed and a surprisingly easy fix that all legislators would have to do is go back to draw.

Yellowstone's judicial districts, so they fell within state lines. The Idaho District Court would then rule over the kill zone and the loophole would disappear, but this has not yet been implemented at the time I am recording this video, so the area remains The most dangerous place in Yellowstone or the better if you are a professional Hitman. None of you are really Hitmen. Why do I have the feeling I'll regret telling at least one of you about this total coin coincidence we've had? We've all heard of making it rain dollar bills, but what about raining dollar coins?

Oh, that would be painful, maybe that's why one-dollar coins never took off despite the US government's tireless attempts to launch them. A campaign to get the public interested in one-dollar coins ended up backfiring. It's so bad that people went on vacations for free, but before that, why is the US Treasury so interested in Americans starting to use coins? It would simply be much cheaper for them - in fact, it would save the US government over $500 million a year - but surely paper is cheaper to produce thanmetal coins, well it really comes down to the lifespan of money, as notes circulate through the economy, are abused, torn and damaged, eventually no longer fit for their purpose and are taken away. out of circulation to be destroyed as a result the printing office has to print billions of new dollars each year to replace the old currency up to 70% printed each year are used to replace banknotes deemed unfit for use dollar coins without Although they last 16 times longer than paper bills, the lifespan of a dollar bill is around 6.6 years, but a dollar coin can last around 30 years, so the House of US Currency has tested several methods to get the public interested in using one-dollar coins in a rolled out implementation plan.

In 2008, the Mint offered to sell the new one-dollar coin at face value with free shipping, allowing the use of credit cards to purchase the coins. Well, one scientific researcher, Jane Leah, took note of the plan and suddenly realized that there was a big loophole here. If you got a credit card with a high enough limit, you could, for example, buy $10,000 coins, then Deposit the coins in the bank and pay off the credit card. Banks typically offer rewards for paying off credit early or within a set period of time, such as free airline miles. So Jane and many other self-proclaimed travel hackers started buying hundreds of dollar coins with their credit cards and earning all these Airline Miles.

The plan completely failed in the face of the Mint's attempts to put the coins into circulation, as they were instead accumulating in bank vaults. Mint officials realized something was wrong when they discovered that a small number of customers were ordering large amounts of coins. The top 20 customers alone bought about $696,000 between them. A man allegedly ordered $2.4 million worth of coins and none of them were entering circulation. Finally, in 2011, the Mint caught wind of the scheme and sent letters to travel hackers

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ing this loophole, imposing a strict limit of purchasing only 1,000 coins every 10 days. The US Mint may have put an end to this ruse.

Free Airline Miles Hack, but dollar coins have never caught on with the public, probably because they are heavier and bulkier on your wallet than the ease of using paper bills, plus it's no fun having dollar coins thrown at you when you're on stage, no. wait, pretend you didn't hear that poker face when it comes to gambling, they say the house always wins, but sometimes smart players can beat the house at its own game, like in 2010 when players who used The British Columbia Lottery Corporation's Play Now website discovered a loophole that reliably paid them $197.50 every time they played.

As part of a promotional scheme, new players on the site would get a $100 incentive in their accounts. , the players would then deposit $100 of their own money into the account and play a backarat game betting $50 on both the player and the banker. In bakarat there are only three possible outcomes: the players hand beats the bankers the banker's hand beat the players or they tied, which happens very rarely with their set bets, they were practically guaranteed to win one of the $50 bets. and so, with their winnings doubled, they got back the full $100 they had wagered and, if they wagered the same bet again, they qualified to withdraw the $100 deposit bonus after a $2.50 service charge.

The players walked away with their $97.50 cent winnings after a few minutes of playing. It seemed like a big blunder, but Lottery maintains that of all the people who claimed the $100 bonus, 75% of them They kept betting, however, they never ran that promotion again, so I wonder if that bet led them to win. Red Hot Wheels Hey Hey, You Want a Free Golf Cart In 2008, a tax loophole meant you could get a free golf cart, but the problem was you couldn't call it a golf cart. The economic stimulus legislation passed in late 2008 created two new tax credits for electric vehicles, including one for low-speed, four-wheeled plug-in electric vehicles—yes, like Rolf Blart—but the law specifically said this credit did not apply. to vehicles made primarily for off-road use, so a golf cart designed for off-road use on a golf course was automatically disqualified, so for this tax loophole to apply it had to be strictly called a neighborhood electric vehicle.

The amazing thing about this credit is that it could cover up to $15,000, which was 100% of the cost of a standard golf cart at the time, all you needed to do to claim the credit was purchase and take title to a golf cart. qualified, that is, a neighborhood electric vehicle by December 2009, as long as it had license plate signal lights and rear-view mirrors. You could drive it down the highway for free, but since most golf carts have a top speed of only 15 mph, which has caused quite a few queues, the tax loophole killed the deal in 2009, sadly, but it's always worth it These are worth keeping track of. things like you never know when you'll find a similar great deal Espresso Yourself Since Starbucks first opened its doors in 1971, it hasn't stopped serving coffee, whether in bean or drink form, today about 60 million Customers visit its 18,000 stores around the world.

As a result, Starbucks came up with a loyalty card system called Starbucks Gold. Members were entitled to a number of benefits including a free drink on their birthday, free refills and a free drink after every 12 drinks they purchased. They've settled for a free filter coffee, but other customers have used this free drink to start breaking records now. Andrew may seem like a common name, but it's the name of a man who made a truly crazy drink in May 2014, he walked into a Starbucks. and put a glass vase on the counter challenging the baristas to make a frappuccino but not just any Frappuccino a 60 shot espresso Frappuccino the vanilla mocha Mega Frappuccino totaled $547 but Andrew didn't pay a dime because Andrew Member Starbucks Gold had purchased 12 drinks in the previous days and at the time there were no stipulations on which drink Gold members could claim, so this 128-office monstrosity was totally free, although Andrew's record for the most expensive drink in Ive Starbucks didn't last long. was surpassed just 2 months later, can you guess where Florida?

It's always Florida. The woman set the new record at $605 with her drink that also included 60 shots of espresso along with caramel white mocha and hazelnut syrups. She didn't pay for this super large size either. drank while using his loyalty card and was a glass keg, but the infamous Florida man reared his head breaking the record again in October when William Lewis ordered a mega latte that included 101 shots of espresso and 17 shots of syrup. vanilla. total 83 dollars. 75, but William also got the free drink on his loyalty card. Now all of these drinks may sound awesome, but they could also be deadly.

Caffeine is a stimulant with a daily intake limit for humans of about 400 mg, while a shot of Starbucks espresso contains 75 mg of caffeine, so Andrews and the Florida woman's drink maxed out at 4,500 mg. of caffeine, exceeding the daily limit 11 times. Williams' drink, on the other hand, totaled 7,500 mg of caffeine, a literal heart stopping 18 times over the daily limit, and drinking these drinks all at once could trigger a lethal caffeine overdose that caused irregular heartbeats, seizures and even heart failure. Wisely, none of these creative clients drank them in one sitting. Andrew finished his Mammoth Frappuccino over the course of 5 days.

William, on the other hand, split his between three friends who drank it. of standardized coffee cups turning his one free drink into dozens. I imagine Starbucks management was bitter. Double problem. Sometimes identical twins can be so difficult to tell apart that even their parents struggle, but while their parents only have to worry about calling them the wrong name. Cops have it a lot harder now under the law, the saying is innocent until proven guilty, which means in many places to be honest about a crime there must be proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the person accused committed it.

Any fan of the show Crim who watches it will. I know that a deciding factor in any case is DNA evidence, but here's the catch: Identical twins also share identical DNA, so not even DNA evidence can prove which twin committed a specific crime. This exact legal dilemma occurred in 2008 in Malaysia when a judge couldn't. To determine which identical twin possessed a stash of narcotics, therefore, by law, both had to be acquitted because imprisoning an innocent person is more wrong than detaining a guilty person. A similar case also occurred in Arizona, United States, in 2011, the judge could not.

To decide whether Orlando or Brandon Nard had gotten into a fight outside the nightclub, a fight that ended fatally for the other person involved, despite DNA evidence and abundant witnesses to the crime, there was no way for the prosecution to definitively attribute the crime to Orlando or Brandon. they shared the same distinctive characteristics identical DNA and most importantly both blamed the crime on the other and that is why they were both free to this day the police still cannot determine who committed the crime I guess it is a twin, sorry, a victory for The twins in New Yorkers who live the least Pug life spend on average up to 117 hours in traffic per year, which is equivalent to being stuck in their car for more than 4 days, so it's no surprise that most residents opt for public transportation, as 2.4 million people commute daily on the The subway is a much more convenient way to travel with people who often also bring their pets, but in 2019, the U.S.

Transit Authority New York City proposed a rule that no animal can board trains or enter stations without being transported inside a container like a portable kennel, but where there is a strict rule New Yorkers will always find a loophole, while the rule requires pets to be inside a container, it doesn't actually define what type of containers are valid, so people made up their own creative interpretations of which container was for backpacks. to laundry bags, although the most popular trend for large dogs was to cut four holes in plastic Ikea bags so your dog could use them.

Flat pack pets are one of the easiest things to assemble, just place the D slot into the B slot and you're done. According to the rule, these Ikea dogs are contained inside the bag, although the fact that no one seems fazed by dogs wearing Ikea bags says a lot about how many oddities New Yorkers see every day. Jerry and Marge Go Large, many grandparents have a good time. -retirements earned by going on cruises or learning to knit, but a grandfather who had a knack for numbers spent his retirement playing the lottery in 2003. Jerry and Marge Selby were enjoying their retirement in Michigan when a new lottery game was announced. lottery known as a windfall in In the regular Mega Millions lottery, the jackpot keeps increasing until one lucky person gets all the numbers correct and wins the grand cash prize, but in case of winning, if the jackpot reaches 5 million and no one matches all six numbers, all the money accumulates in the low level prize. winners, so anyone with tickets that matched five, four or three numbers got a prize.

Jerry discovered a brochure for this new lottery system at the corner store. A quick thinker. It took him 3 minutes to figure out how to hack the system. Meanwhile, it takes me approximately. 5 minutes just to decide what pizza to order, but Jerry is a much smarter guy than me and realized that if he bought $1,100 worth of tickets, statistically he would have at least one four-number winning ticket, allowing him to win back the 1,000 dollars he amassed. followed the numbers and realized that he would have 18 or 19 winning three-number tickets that would give him 50 dollars each, meaning that in total after an investment of $1,100 he would recover a return of $1900 each time the ingenious sums of Jerry would have eliminated luck. lottery element entirely now it's just a matter of working the odds in his favor,so when a reduction was announced, Jerry sprang into action, buying $3,600 in windfall tickets and winning $6,300 in return the next time he bought $8,000 tickets and nearly doubled his winnings in 2005 Michigan shut down the Windfall Lottery, but Jerry He soon found a similar game called Windfall in Massachusetts.

The couple would drive more than 700 million to buy tickets worth $100,000 at two local convenience stores. It was a high initial investment but it really paid off because by 2009 they had raised more than 20 million. of dollars worth of winning tickets after ticket fees and taxes. In the end, this was a $5 million profit, although the fun came to an end when the Boston Globe newspaper published an investigative report exposing the money-making scheme. After the state of Massachusetts announced that they would phase out the Cash Windfall Lottery in one year, in January 2012, Jerry and Marge's windfall scheme had come to an end over the course of 9 years, they had raised nearly $27 million from both states, rewarding them with $7.75 million in pre-tax profits (forget going on a luxury cruise, these guys could have bought their own yacht, but instead they chose to use the money for personal practical ones, like helping his six children, 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren pay for their education and maybe that's how Jerry became so good at math by keeping track of his dozens of descendants.

A new law. They say everyone has a book. An untold story they could write. But putting all those words on paper can take forever, although there is one thing the prisoners have. They have a lot of free time and, according to a strange Romanian law, writing a book can get you out of jail. In Romania, a very specific law once stipulated that prisoners could have their sentences reduced by 30 days for each scientific paper they published. In April 2015, a Romanian businessman behind bars Yor Copos managed to reduce his sentence by 150 days by publishing five books, one of his books was titled The marriage alliance as a policy of the Romanian kings in the 14th to 16th centuries, an impressive academic work. , while another prisoner wrote a 212-page book in just 7 hours, surpassing Stephen King's record of writing his 219-page novel The Running Man in one week.

Romanian prisoners published 340 books in 2015 alone, so how on earth did these prisoners write such well-rehearsed academic books so quickly? A historian, Caitlyn Parfen, solved this mystery when she picked up George's book and discovered that he completely plagiarized her master's thesis. The book was a word-for-word copy of her entire essay. This blatant plagiarism also explains that 7 hour log, as it is much easier to write. quickly, if you don't have to come up with an original plot, prisoners would find obscure academic works and simply copy them word for word in the hope that no one would notice The law remained highly controversial in Romania and was eventually repealed in 2016 Unsurprisingly, prisoners now spend much less time in the library as Romania's legal system has begun a new chapter.

Squatter's Pleasure One of the biggest purchases most people make in their entire lives is purchasing a home with prices ranging from tens of thousands to millions of dollars. America is an expensive business, but a Texas man looked up state laws and solved the ultimate old trick: buying a house for just $16 to understand how we must first travel back in time to the 2008 financial crisis and then to some parts from the United States. became ghost towns and some people had to abandon their homes because they could no longer pay the mortgage a man known as Kenneth Robinson found a silver lining in this real estate bubble that burst in 2011 found a house valued at $330,000 in Flower Mound Texas that It had been abandoned by its previous owner and the mortgage company it was linked to had closed with no one to claim the debt, the house was simply empty.

Kenneth had researched a little-known law known as adverse possession, according to which if someone moved into an abandoned house they would have exclusive negotiating rights with the original owner. If the original owner wanted the squatter to leave, the owner would have to pay the rent. debt mortgage on the property and under Texas squatting laws the bank would have to file a lawsuit against the squatter to have him evicted, all Kenneth had to do was file paperwork with the local court saying he claimed ownership of the property of the property, which cost him a grand total of $16 so, as long as he stayed for 3 years, the house would be his to advertise the loophole law to others.

Kenneth created a website known as $6h house.com D and became a local celebrity, but remained deeply unpopular with his neighbors, who felt that he should have paid fairly and equitably for the house, unfortunately Kenneth was only able to live in the house for 8 months before a judge ruled that the current mortgage holder Bank of America could evict him because Kenneth had bragged so publicly about the loophole that the judge decided to make an example by quickly cracking down to deter anyone who are thinking about taking advantage of the plan; However, the adverse possession law still applies, so it is feasible to claim ownership of an abandoned house, but don't make the same mistake as Kenneth. and brag about it on the Internet they willingly say that America is the land of the free, maybe in some states it is too free because in the state of Kansas, for example, it is perfectly legal to walk down the street in your birthday suit as long as when while you keep your hands where we can see it, any naughty behavior will obviously constitute a criminal offense, but just walking around without clothes hey, no problem, but don't take the same risk in North Carolina because public nudity is illegal, but if you want let it all happen in North Carolina, there is a way around state laws from preserving the right to do whatever you want on your property, which means you may not be able to walk down the street with your bows out, but if If you're standing on your doorstep completely naked or in the backyard with nothing on, no one can arrest you, although I would recommend against it just because of the bug bites, which of these crazy loopholes did you find most interesting?

Do you have other smart ways? about certain rules legally, obviously, let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching