Hacking the Sytem, the Painful Way
Hector Saavedra
Issue date: 3/24/09 Section: Impact Staff Blogs
MARCH 19 - I'm always looking to for different ways to hack the system.
By hack, I don't mean their network, or infrastructure. By hack, I mean I try to find loop holes to have The Man work for me, instead of the other way around.
I have learned of a few ways to get money off The Man. Some ways involve altering the information on a tax return; this includes adding extra dependants, which works mainly if no one else claims that dependant, ever, and if a doctor is willing to write a false letter stating that the dependant has lived for at least six months with the person making the claim. That is an easy one, if the doctor is on the same page as you are.
Not that I did that of course. The other, rather blunt way of getting money, involves a little pain.
The way I am about to tell you most definitely will hurt. And perhaps you have known this way from reading the paper over the years. Ready for it? Here it is, hurt yourself real bad in a place that makes a lot of money, and then sue them. Now this is not the brightest of idea mind you, but it is one of the few ideas which, if you win, you could win a lot of money; assuming that you don't mind the pain.
Like a drunken man who fell in the subway tracks during early February of this year, in NY and won $3.5 million.
"It was just an accident [but] it wasn't my choice to lose my leg," Dustin Dibble told Silver Scorpio.
Dibble had a .18 blood-alcohol level, "more than double the legal limit if he were driving," according to the article. Dibble's lawyer, Andrew Smiley, argued that the driver of the train is supposed to stop if he sees a large object. The driver of the train did not deny seeing the object in front of his train.
"I saw what I thought was garbage on the track," and continued into the station said the driver.
When he saw movement, he activated the emergency brakes. The drunken man lost a leg.
Another person who has, by accident, won a little money through misfortune, is the infamous McDonalds law suit by a woman who spilled hot burning coffee on her lap a few years back.
By hack, I don't mean their network, or infrastructure. By hack, I mean I try to find loop holes to have The Man work for me, instead of the other way around.
I have learned of a few ways to get money off The Man. Some ways involve altering the information on a tax return; this includes adding extra dependants, which works mainly if no one else claims that dependant, ever, and if a doctor is willing to write a false letter stating that the dependant has lived for at least six months with the person making the claim. That is an easy one, if the doctor is on the same page as you are.
Not that I did that of course. The other, rather blunt way of getting money, involves a little pain.
The way I am about to tell you most definitely will hurt. And perhaps you have known this way from reading the paper over the years. Ready for it? Here it is, hurt yourself real bad in a place that makes a lot of money, and then sue them. Now this is not the brightest of idea mind you, but it is one of the few ideas which, if you win, you could win a lot of money; assuming that you don't mind the pain.
Like a drunken man who fell in the subway tracks during early February of this year, in NY and won $3.5 million.
"It was just an accident [but] it wasn't my choice to lose my leg," Dustin Dibble told Silver Scorpio.
Dibble had a .18 blood-alcohol level, "more than double the legal limit if he were driving," according to the article. Dibble's lawyer, Andrew Smiley, argued that the driver of the train is supposed to stop if he sees a large object. The driver of the train did not deny seeing the object in front of his train.
"I saw what I thought was garbage on the track," and continued into the station said the driver.
When he saw movement, he activated the emergency brakes. The drunken man lost a leg.
Another person who has, by accident, won a little money through misfortune, is the infamous McDonalds law suit by a woman who spilled hot burning coffee on her lap a few years back.
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