Some Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, At Least According To These 89 Unethical Life Hacks

I once got a parking ticket and instead of paying it I dipped it in water, crumpled it up and had my gf bring it to the police station a week later saying she found it on the street. I went online to see if the citation was still there and it was gone.

In some very specific cases, if you're riding a train where a conductor checks the tickets, you can ride it for free.

Back in my university days, I figured out that the train coming into my station has already been on the road for a while and the conductor already did a pass of it and saw hundreds of faces and tickets.

I'd just board without a ticket, sit somewhere and ignore the conductor when he came by. Most of the times, he'd just pass me by and maybe one in 50 times he'd ask me "Ticket?" to which I'd just reply "Already checked." and that was that.

If you work retail or hospo that had a rewards points system, and employees are allowed to join said points system, every time a customer doesn't want to join and add their purchase to a rewards account, just add it to your own. A victimless crime, as you're not stealing anything from the customer because they never had an account to begin with, you're just saving rewards points that would have been wasted for yourself without having to spend any money.

Disclaimer that this only works if your corporate overlords aren't completely psycho and actively monitoring employee accounts.

I found this out by accident like 2 yrs ago but I’m sure it might work again depending on how the pump pre authorized the purchase

I had one of those prepaid vanilla Visa cards and registered with hide my email, it and added it to Apple Pay.
Went to gas station and used that to buy gas and figured it would stop at the remaining balance of like 10.00. Nope filled up over60.00 and confirmed with clerk that it was paid.

Not quite ethical but when getting coffee from drive thru, ask for small size BUT in a MEDIUM size cup. 9/10 times they just give you actual M size coffee for a price of small.

Even now, a lot of vending machine operators don't change the default password to access the menus on the machine.

So long as you can get the make and model, you can find the passwords and instructions on what to do online. The best bit?

you don't have to go through the hassle of changing prices like with the older ones, a lot of the newer ones will let you run a test, simply getting the item for free.

If you need new tires, choose a rental car with the same size, rent it for a day, swap the tires, then return it.

Whenever a coworker tries to dump some random task on you, ask them to send you an email with exactly what they need. Half the time they suddenly figure out how to do it themselves. Apparently putting things in writing is harder than making them someone else's problem.

Most “Love Fridges” or DIY community food pantries are completely unsecured even at night. If you think it might be fun to put on a mask and gloves and sneak a bunch of food into the pantry at 1am when there aren’t any witnesses because it makes you feel good to, “Be like if Batman fought hunger instead of crime,” you can just do it. No one can stop you and the people who eat that food will never know it was donated by a weirdo.

Edit: It’s 2:15AM. My favorite neighborhood bar always keeps a couple shelves outside by one of their doors so people can leave and take non perishables as they need it. I just walked by after close and left six cans of soup and a couple pounds of rice for anyone who needs it tomorrow. I think one person at a bus stop across the street might have seen me, but I had my hood up and took a different route home. I’m confident in calling that anonymous.

If the person sitting in front of you on a flight reclines their seat all the way back and leaves you with no room, turn on the air con above you to full blast and point it at the top of their head.

Back when I was apartment hunting, I used to copy down the info of a new posting and then flag it as spam or violating the terms of the site. That would trigger the post to be taken down for at least 24 hours and give me a day's head start.

If they ask implying some sort of special discount just nod and take the discount. A friend of mine who went to college later in life always received a faculty discount in the college cafeteria because they thought he was a professor. He never confirmed or denied it as he just nodded and the cashier gave it to him. I believe the discount was around 50% or so.

Hobby lobby doesn't use barcodes because the owners believed that barcodes were the mark of the beast so they have no idea if they sold that product at all.

Unpaid medical collection accounts under $500 do not appear on your credit report and do not affect your credit score. Only balances over $500 can be reported.

So, if, like someone didn’t pay them…

Your credit rating is limited only to the US.

If you leave, it doesn't follow you.

Feel free to ruin it on your way out!

If you don't have insurance/do have insurance but still cant afford an ER visit, you can show up to any ER in the country and because of EMTALA (Federal Law) they are required to treat you.

The unethical part is refusing to provide name, birthday, address, social security number. Just show up as a John/Jane Doe. Helps to walk in or have a friend drop you off so they can't identify you via license plate.

You know those chip clips they sell by the chip aisle? Don’t buy those. Instead, raid your office supply closet and get binder clips. They work better.

Tell your coworkers you have terrible hearing which personally, partially true, but it's not nearly as bad as i play it up to be and everyone feels comfortable whispering around you.

If we go through another housing market burst and you are underwater on your mortgage, check to see if you live in a ‘no recourse’ state. If so you can stop paying your mortgage, save the money, get more cash to leave the property without trashing it when they eventually foreclose, and then get a new mortgage three years later.

If you ever need customer service fast, select the option to "cancel subscription" or "pay a bill"—you'll get a real human in 10 seconds.