123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890122345678901234567890 ------ 8< ------------ 8< ------------ 8< ------------ 8< ------------ 8< ------- Free Carwashes for Fun and Profit by an Anonymous Social Engineer Feb 15 2005 --------------------------------- [ search for to skip the story ] Let's face it. Car washes are expensive. So is gas. To get a carwash at a less disgusting price from most gas stations you need to get a fill up. Just yesterday, gas hit an all time high of almost 80 cents/L. That's highway robbery. And the poor ain't doin' the robbin this time. I say take from the rich and give it to yourselves! Aye! To top it all off, if you drive a hybrid or fuel economy car, governments stand to loose tax money they use to "build stuff". (cf. 1) Like the next big unjust war for more oil. Now, we don't want to get caught and end up next to Bruno the Axe murderer in the clinker, so we've got to find a sneaky and legal way to rip these big companies off. I found out how to help do this quite by accident. A week ago, my car was looking like shit. Naturally, Canadian roads will rip a car apart in only a couple years if you don't wash 'em eh? Salt and grime is all consuming just like big corporations. Conspiracy theorists may posit that this is done by municipalities simply to appease the corporate gods and cost you, the taxpayer, more carwashes. So I pulled up to this PETRO-sCANm around the corner and bought a fill-up and a wash. The deluxe, "I'll charge you $13 dollars" wash. I figured that it was stupidly expensive but like most other people I'd just not get another until summer, and that washing my car now would prevent me from buying another car in a week. So I waited in line for an hour and 20 minutes. I was bored outta my tree; I swear they do this so you buy their crap food as supper. I bought $5 in hacker snax from their "On The Run" store. It dissapeared in seconds. Their whole evil operation is setup to really fork you over. Or your cash. One both! I even had time to calculate almost exactly that for every car in line I'd be waiting an extra 5 minutes and 15 seconds to get through. Anyway, let's cut this whale of a tale down. (Just kidding, Greenpeace!) ---- Jaberwocky! NHL is dead??? Now you've skipped my story, I hope you smash yer 'ed. (Easy Clone, I didn't mean you! ;-) ---- After I came out of the car wash, I noticed the wash blew. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure they ran out of foam soap. So I drove around and walked into the till and kindly asked the grease monkey behind the counter what his policy was if my car was still dirty. He said, "this is my policy" and handed me a new wash ticket. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now a couple points: You need to turn in your old receipt, and claim it didn't work (AFAIK). Heck, turn it in the next day if you feel like it but I think it's more usefull to turn it in the same day. They are dated, but you can claim that you didn't use it until today. Experiment. The great thing is is that each ticket is good for *90 days* from the day of purchase. So I had 90 days to use the first one and claim 'it didn't work' And I'm sure you can always find at least one brown spot that didn't get clean! The amazing thing is the new tickets are good for 90 days too! So go ahead, sell it. Pawn it. Keep it. Don't use it for four weeks. Loopholes abound! Just make sure you use it and don't abuse it. Give them to friends! Set up commie ticket-washing swap-communes! Damn, I can't believe the potential. So, the moral of this story is: * Be polite and ask nicely, even to people that do you injustice. Turn the other cheek man! Jesus was damn smart, and was God. Beauty, eh? * Then turn around and use the system to your advantage. After all, the system was created by humans. They're not perfect, so why should you be? Sin makes the world go round. * Keep your social engineering antennas out for other good tricks, and share them with your friends. Don't forget your Beaver motto kids: Sharing, sharing, sharing! Now to counter those that may say this trick is 'obvious' or 'lame': No it's not! It's a two-fer! Think about it: without a coupon you continually have an extra wash whenever you want it! And if you pay cash, there's no way they can track you! Better yet, the only thing they can do to stop it is to say "no more carwashes for YOU" or try some similar faschist argument. They gave it to you, and i'm sure you can find some reason to say your car is dirty to back it up. "It's not fraud, Mr. Mountie. Wanna free wash?" Cheers, and keep your stick on the Ice! - \\\ Die Corporate Mofos Die! \\ NHL Is Dead! Long Live Hockey! \\ 1917-2004 \\ \--\--//-- \--||-|-/ Shouts to the whole Nettwerked Crew. References -.-.-.-.-.- 1) "California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car": Slashdot.org : http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/15/201217&tid=158&tid=219 ------ 8< ------------ 8< ------------ 8< ------------ 8< ------------ 8< -------