CHEAT! by Frostbeard
February 5th, 2008 10:49 PMSo, there is this toll road that i have to take to get from Boston to Worcester, and the tolls collected support highway infrastructure and supported the Boston Big Dig. The problem is that corrupt people had been dipping their hands into the cookie-jar of Big Dig funding for years, and the Big Dig took way longer and was way more expensive than first estimated. Plus, i don't have a real job, and i needed to drive an hour and a half round trip to vote today, so give me a break.
Anyway, one were so inclined at the toll booth, one could take two tickets from the machine that spits out tickets instead of one. Then, later, when one is coming back, one could theoretically get off the exit next to the exit that one originally got to tickets from. This would mean that the toll collector would assume you only came from one stop away, instead of all the way from Boston. This means savings on the trip back.
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Exit 10, 11, 11a, 12, 13, 14, 15
Collect 2 Purple Tickets, at 11, Use 1 at 15.
Save second Purple Ticket.
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Exit 10, 11, 11a, 12, 13, 14, 15,
Use second Purple Ticket at 10 Collect 1 Pink Ticket and discard.
I would of course never dream of actually doing this.... especially if you are a police officer reading this. ;)
EDIT: Given Dr. Harmon's claim that this wasn't clear, the above sentence is highly sarcastic. I need to save my small bills for purchasing pints of beer after all.
Pink Ticket
If you can't read it, the Worcester (#10) exit says $2.45
Purple Ticket
Here the Worcester (#10) exit says $0.25
Pink Money
The ticket, and the $2.45 it costs to use.
Purple Money Dishwasher
The purple ticket with the amount it costs to use it.
Cha-Ching!
The savings.
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I figured that people would read into the sarcasm...especially with the ;) face.
Although I suppose when you consider that it is Cheat, it seems appropriate not to actually claim to have cheated.
Well, anyway, it has been done, so, no need to worry about that.
Come on, Herr Doktor. The praxis was obvious. There was no need to delete anything. Vote!
That's funny. I've been through a lot of tolls but it never occurred to me that one could take two tickets. (And I'm not being sarcastic!)
..ya, i mean, it took me a long time really too. But then i went through a couple of stints of no income and banks accounts reaching low double digits, and viola, this idea emerged. anyway, it is theoretically risky, as i assume if they catch you they will fine you for a lot of money, and therefore it won't really be worth it. As far as i can tell, however, they don't have cameras when you get on to take a ticket...only in the fast lanes. so, the only way they will catch you is on the other side when you pay. the problem there is that the back of the tickets are time and date stamped. pretty much no one checks this. they should probably scan them or something, but maybe too few people have thought of this to make it a problem.
thanks Warren. Quite practical, if i do say so.
A vote for sticking it to the Big Dig!
You aren't from the area, are you? If you aren't, have you been caused harm by said big dig? Or are you just enemies on principal from afar?
Once again, human ingenuity triumphs over automation.
It's a good method of cheating, but unless you claim to have implemented it I'm not sure the task has actually been fulfilled. (That said, since all praxes are fiction anyway you won't have to do anything other than delete that last sentence...)