Hmm... just thought of a scam....

[gopunk]

got a parking ticket yesterday.... went to cityofseattle.net to pay it. but i was thinking.... someone could just print up tickets, make their own official sounding website, and viola!

 

[fatbaby]

are cityoflosangeles.net and cityofburbank.net reserved yet?

 

[Spikey289]

I had a friend in Seaside taht got a ticket but it was by some people who left it as a joke. The violation was his car was a wooptie and not a hot import. It was funny. I dont think it would work for long someone would find out.

 

[Kevin]

I've been wondering if you could take a parking ticket, make copies. Then when you want to park illegally, just pull out your copy and place it on the windshield. That way, if a cop passes by, he'll see that there was one written already and keep on walking.

I think it would work, but like everything, it will depend if the Cop is a pr*ck, lazy or doesn't care. Here, the parking violations are neon-orange, you can spot one a mile away.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I thought of a scam to get all of your local postage for free. If you forget to put a stamp on a letter or you don't put enough postage the mailman usually just brings it back to you. So all you do is put your address where you would normally put the address you mean to send it to. Then put the address where you actually want the letter to go as the return address. Drop the letter in a public box, and the mailman, thinking the other person sent it, will take it to where you want it to go. At the worst it comes back to you postage due and you refuse to pay. Not that it's worth it to commit mail fruad for, what $.34? But if you ever get the urge to live on the edge it's something to try, I guess.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: lirion
I thought of a scam to get all of your local postage for free. If you forget to put a stamp on a letter or you don't put enough postage the mailman usually just brings it back to you. So all you do is put your address where you would normally put the address you mean to send it to. Then put the address where you actually want the letter to go as the return address. Drop the letter in a public box, and the mailman, thinking the other person sent it, will take it to where you want it to go. At the worst it comes back to you postage due and you refuse to pay. Not that it's worth it to commit mail fruad for, what $.34? But if you ever get the urge to live on the edge it's something to try, I guess.

This would only really work if you were sending a letter in the same city.

If you were in L.A. I doubt they would send it to a return address that was in Chicago.


Edit: Missed that local in there. Sorry.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: aves2k

Originally posted by: lirion
I thought of a scam to get all of your local postage for free. If you forget to put a stamp on a letter or you don't put enough postage the mailman usually just brings it back to you. So all you do is put your address where you would normally put the address you mean to send it to. Then put the address where you actually want the letter to go as the return address. Drop the letter in a public box, and the mailman, thinking the other person sent it, will take it to where you want it to go. At the worst it comes back to you postage due and you refuse to pay. Not that it's worth it to commit mail fruad for, what $.34? But if you ever get the urge to live on the edge it's something to try, I guess.

This would only really work if you were sending a letter in the same city.

If you were in L.A. I doubt they would send it to a return address that was in Chicago.

Like I said, local postage.

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: kevin000
I've been wondering if you could take a parking ticket, make copies. Then when you want to park illegally, just pull out your copy and place it on the windshield. That way, if a cop passes by, he'll see that there was one written already and keep on walking.

I think it would work, but like everything, it will depend if the Cop is a pr*ck, lazy or doesn't care. Here, the parking violations are neon-orange, you can spot one a mile away.

Interesting. . . wonder what would happen if the cop caught you doing this. . ?

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: lirion
I thought of a scam to get all of your local postage for free. If you forget to put a stamp on a letter or you don't put enough postage the mailman usually just brings it back to you. So all you do is put your address where you would normally put the address you mean to send it to. Then put the address where you actually want the letter to go as the return address. Drop the letter in a public box, and the mailman, thinking the other person sent it, will take it to where you want it to go. At the worst it comes back to you postage due and you refuse to pay. Not that it's worth it to commit mail fruad for, what $.34? But if you ever get the urge to live on the edge it's something to try, I guess.

this was in maxim.

 

Originally posted by: TNTrulez

Originally posted by: kevin000
I've been wondering if you could take a parking ticket, make copies. Then when you want to park illegally, just pull out your copy and place it on the windshield. That way, if a cop passes by, he'll see that there was one written already and keep on walking.

I think it would work, but like everything, it will depend if the Cop is a pr*ck, lazy or doesn't care. Here, the parking violations are neon-orange, you can spot one a mile away.

Interesting. . . wonder what would happen if the cop caught you doing this. . ?

More than likely arrest you for forging an offical document and other laws that might apply.

 

[LordMaul]

I got one!

First...you put up an item on eBay. Then, when the buyer wins and sends you money...DON'T SEND THE ITEM! And KEEP the money!

OMG I'm a genius!

 

[eakers]

park illeagally and steal the ticket off a car near by so you wont get one.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: LordMaul
I got one!

First...you put up an item on eBay. Then, when the buyer wins and sends you money...DON'T SEND THE ITEM! And KEEP the money!

OMG I'm a genius!

You should patent that idea.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: eakers
park illeagally and steal the ticket off a car near by so you wont get one.

save a ticket and keep using it and they might not look closely.

 

[Hammer]

I used to stick an old ticket I got under the wiper when I parked on campus in the faculty spots, it only failed me a few times.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: hammer09
I used to stick an old ticket I got under the wiper when I parked on campus in the faculty spots, it only failed me a few times.

back when PG3 had first opened i parked there overnight once and the farking scooter-riding meter maid bastard gave me a ticket at 11:59 pm and then 12:00 am. and back then they didn't put on there that the parking office would get rid of the ticket if you showed them a receipt for the garage.

 

[SaintGRW]

Originally posted by: kevin000
I've been wondering if you could take a parking ticket, make copies. Then when you want to park illegally, just pull out your copy and place it on the windshield. That way, if a cop passes by, he'll see that there was one written already and keep on walking.

I think it would work, but like everything, it will depend if the Cop is a pr*ck, lazy or doesn't care. Here, the parking violations are neon-orange, you can spot one a mile away.

depends on the spot. if the cop doesn't read the ticket and figure out it's a fake he might just write you a 2nd, and a 3rd etc.. if he does see it's a fake maybe you get even more tickets!