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Locate a nice car in a well-populated downtown area with a lot of foot traffic, stand next to the parking meter by the car. Ask passersby for meter change, while holding a $100 bill, as if that's the smallest denomination you're carrying. Open a newspaper machine early in the morning and take all the papers. Sell them in the street. This works best when 2 grocery stores are close together. Buy an item from grocery store #1. Enter grocery store #2 with just that receipt. Pick up the same item from grocery store #2, while getting something else - something small or something needed also. Buy the small item, and show the receipt for the other item, claiming you got it from the other store beforehand. When I lived in Bellevue, WA, I lived right across the street from 3 big supermarkets and would do this constantly with 12-packs of beer. I was on foot and would hide the first 12-pack in the bushes outside. One time someone must have spotted me because the 12-pack was gone. Go to Pizza Hut. Order whatever you like. Walk to the bathroom before finishing the meal, keeping an eye on your server. When his attention is elsewhere, calmly exit the restaurant and break into a full-sprint once outside. Enter any fast foot restaurant with a drive through and ask to speak to the manager. Explain that you bought food earlier at the drive through and that (1 item, whatever you want) was missing, which you didn't discover it until you got home. This works well in college towns, especially from a dormitory. Order a pizza delivered, with your phone # blocked and a fake # given. Wait for the driver to enter the building, and steal the metal pizza bag from the unlocked driver's car. Call Domino's the following day or later and say you found an empty pizza bag and will return it for a free pizza. A friend of mine once got a Spanish radio station in Arizona to sponsor a coupon book, with coupons from local businesses. They went to the business and guaranteed only a certain # of these books would be sold, but the coupons were excellent, and the printed 3x as many as they'd promised, and sold them all telemarketing, nearly putting a few shops out of business in the process. He moved to Decatur, IL later that year, and did the same thing, but the coupon book falsely claimed to be sponsored by WSOY, the local radio station. get white shoe polish that comes in a little jar with a sponge tip, take that, find a newer type of car in really good shape and write "for sale", "must go" on the car with one of your buddies phone numbers on it. wait patiently and i'm sure the stories will come. when i was a kid i once had a friend call another friend of mine on three way calling and tell him he was the manager at a store where he just applied for a job and that it would be nice if he would come the next day after school for a job interview and that he should wear tie. the next day my buddy was on the bus with me wearing a collared shirt n' tie to school. i used to ask people if i could use their lighters as i was leaving a bar. i had a bag full of lighters within months. a good idea is to take a recent reciept for something kind of expensive and a plastic bag (so you can ball it up n' hide it in your pocket) with you into a store. now the predictable part, put the new item in the empty take to the counter with your reciept and have lunch on me for the good idea. best party gag ever. reach behind the toilet seat, there'll be one oblong knob, turn it righty tighty and that'll kill the water pressure, no flushing. after a while when it builds up enough pee n' what not, tell the party planner you're a plumber and you can fix it "off the clock" for $20. they never say no. |