Dude's Stupid Cookie Loophole Becomes Real-Life Infinite Money Glitch

It's not uncommon for companies to have some kind of rewards system that lets you turn purchases into redeemable points, but these systems are (usually) carefully constructed so that the companies offering them come out on top, no matter the benefit to the customer. It only makes sense. Offer a decent discount and people will buy a thing. Having a point system is just an extra fun step.

But sometimes these kinds of promotions are accidentally designed with fatal flaws, just waiting for smartasses like this guy to see the cracks in the system, and grow something beautiful out of it like a proud dandelion sprouting from the sidewalk. It was done to great affect by one guy in 1999 who racked up 1 million airmiles by buying 25 cent chocolate pudding cups, and this kind of thing feels like a decent spiritual successor. In this case, it was cookies. Cases of cookies.

Maybe this dude isn't the only reason Sears went out of business, but this couldn't have helped. Here are a few more great stupid loopholes that worked.

Dirty Doctor Discharged For Doing Depraved Deeds, Caught By Clever IT Trap

It never ceases to amaze us when situations like this occur. How do people manage to find themselves in these positions anyways? On the one hand, you have the very sane option of, you know, not doing that. Then, on the other hand, there's doing that. Which one should we choose? Which one seems like the reasonable, ethical and sane thing to do at any place of work?

I can understand there must be insane boredom involved in being a general practice physician. Here you are locked all day in a stuffy old medical center, indoors, with little to no natural light. Fifty hours a week of the same thing; People filter in and out every 30 minutes complaining about the same old things. Multiply that by twenty, thirty, even forty years, and you have a mind-numbing existence in store for you.

While that may seem like a great way to pass the time... Surely there have to be other alternatives. Maybe download Wordle or something on your phone instead.

This dirty Doc chose to play with fire and got burned for it.

For more tech support tales of ultimate revenge check out this one where tech support was told they needed to increase their sales. So they sold everything to the boss's dad.

 

Rare Insults That Cut Straight To The Bone

Remember. If you don't like being criticized, it's important to go nowhere and do nothing. That way, no one will see your crumbling visage or the wretched products of your existence. So if you don't want your feelings hurt, sit in a dark room all day. And do it quietly.

Just about everything you do is going to attract some attention. If you are particularly popular, or better yet, popular for being unpopular, you're going to have a pretty striking mass of insults hurled your way. And some of them might even be good. A smaller number still might be so accurate and cutting that they'll make you want to crawl into a hole, then call a cement truck to have that hole filled, sealing you forever in a mausoleum of mediocrity. If you're lucky, some dumb kids might even come by and write their names in your hardening shame tomb.

Anyway, people on the internet are pretty good with insults. It's kind of to the point that we wonder if these people have anything better to do. They don't, but holy hell can they dunk some fiery roasts. 

People Share The Dumbest Questions They've Ever Been Asked

We shouldn't be too upset when someone asks a dumb question. They are, after all, trying to learn something and affording themselves the opportunity to be open minded. But sometimes when someone asks a question, they don't realize that they're revealing more about themselves than they might think. For example, a question like "why is the sky blue" is a totally reasonable thing to be curious about. But when a coworker looks up from his desk and asks you "why does the sky choose to be blue every day?" you are left with the impression that maybe this guy needs a little more than a simple explanation. He's gonna have to do some un-learning and reverse out of the idiot world he lives in before getting onto the right path.

Again, we shouldn't berate people for being curious and wanted to know things. We still do though, especially when the answer is right in front of them, and they're a grown up.

For some more exercises in mindless idiocy, here are some of the dumbest things people heard out of another person's mouth.

Birds Of Chaos Who Played By No Rules

There are cat people. There are dog people. Frankly that's most people. They argue over which is better, and attack each other over which animals are dumber or bigger sociopaths. And then there's the bird people. The bird people are in their own league. Because the bird people know that birds are truly insane. They bite, they squawk, the paint and they learn to swear. Birds surprise us every day with their genius as well as their brutality. Crows can remember faces, hold grudges, use tools and develop rudimentary bartering systems.

Not only are birds full of surprises, some of them get pretty big. And mean. Anyone who's ever been chased by a goose can attest that those bastards are up to no good. If there was a button that said "destroy the world" a goose would press it on the off chance the end of the world has anything to do with free bread.

For some insight into bird intelligence, here's a tumblr thread on the crow and kea.

Entitled Mom Steals Her Children's Birthdays For Years, Daughter Has Enough Of It

Every family is allowed to have their own traditions and celebrations. If you're not breaking the law, you can pretty much do whatever you want on your birthday.

But this mom has an interesting deal worked out. Evidently, for all of her kid's lives, their birthdays have served more as a celebration of how much they owe their mother for giving birth to them. And she takes it far, to the point where she gets nicer presents than her children. And she does it to all four kids. So she's essentially getting four extra birthdays a year. She's successfully stolen her own kids' birthdays. It sounds like something a jealous 11-year old would try to do.

Naturally, the oldest one started figuring out that swearing fealty to mother through quad-annual gifting isn't exactly a normal thing to do. And when she brought up the growing absurdity of the situation, mom didn't take it well. Not well at all.

So, maybe we should all be grateful that our parents didn't steal our birthdays? It sounds ridiculous to have to say that, but here we are.

For some more weirdness, here's the Disney mom who freaked out when her kid was gifted a non-Disney toy.

Husband Fakes Kidnapping of Infant Son in Order to Teach Wife Lesson

Redditor u/linpa-qnzia was shocked to learn that his wife had been leaving their infant son alone in an unlocked car. He describes that the practice became known to him when the couple stopped for food and his wife remarked that they didn't need to go through the drive-through as "It's not a big deal to leave the baby in the car to run in and pick [the food] up really fast." When he pressed further, she told him that "she's been doing it since he was born, and it's always been fine." 

U/linpa-qnzia was gob-smacked by this. Something that was utterly outrageous and obscene behavior to him seemed to be completely normal behavior as far as his wife was concerned. After some discussion, she seemed to come around and told u/linpa-qnzia that she would stop doing it.

Lo and behold, as he was driving home the next day, he saw his wife's car at the gas station and decided to stop and say hi. When he did, he realized that his son was in the car and his wife was nowhere in sight. That's when he decided that it was time to show his wife the risk she was putting their son in.  

Cocky-Demeaning Mechanic Gives Fixed Quote, Job Goes Way Over

When u/maddaneccles1 and his wife needed to get work done on their old car, u/maddaneccles1 had a good look at the car and noticed a crack in the exhaust manifold. He made it a pretty good way into dismantling the exhaust before encountering some extremely troublesome seized bolts. That's when they decided to take it in to the mechanic.

When u/maddaneccles1's wife got to the mechanic, the mechanic was extremely cocky. He quoted the wife for a long list of parts and repairs that u/maddaneccles1 was sure didn't need replacing. 

The couple had a look over the quote and decided to proceed with the work. When the wife went in to accept the quoted work, she was sure to ensure that it was a fixed quote, meaning no matter what the job ended up taking, the price wouldn't change.

This mechanic was about to rue the day that he agreed to this job.

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For more cocky-entitled people getting their due check out this IT Head who stole a coveted email address.