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JHallCanes said:
I didn’t think this many posters here went to college

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We had a hack with the snack machine.
Someone figured out the by taping a dollar to a playing card, you could put the dollar in the machine, have it register as $1, then pull the dollar back out. We would then get something to eat, and the change. We were literally making money at the snack machine. I can’t remember how long this went on but it seemed like the entire dorm was doing it at one point.
 
AtlAtty said:
We had a hack with the snack machine.
Someone figured out the by taping a dollar to a playing card, you could put the dollar in the machine, have it register as $1, then pull the dollar back out. We would then get something to eat, and the change. We were literally making money at the snack machine. I can’t remember how long this went on but it seemed like the entire dorm was doing it at one point.
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Uhhhhh...that was me and a couple of my fraternity brothers. The Wometco machines were particularly susceptible to the "MD" or Magic Dollar. We didn't use a playing card, we just put scotch tape all over both sides of the dollar, but long enough that we had enough tape to pull the dollar back out again.

Once we figured out that 60% of the time it worked all the time, our first big effort was on the Turnpike. We were going up to Hogtown for a fraternity softball tournament, and we hit every Turnpike rest stop. Once you could empty out one of the Wrigley's gum slots, you could get 4 quarters back for every Magic Dollar.

We cleaned out every vending machine on the Turnpike and paid for our hotel room and meals in quarters. It was glorious. When we got back to UM, we hit a bunch of machines, and we tried to be judicious about it so that nobody would catch on. Unfortunately, another fraternity spotted what we were doing and they made a mess of things because they were so stupid. They were so focused on the money that they would let all the snacks pile up in the bottom so that you couldn't even open the door. Eventually, UM caught on and changed out all of the machines.

Good times...
 
7th floor pearson. the jackasses from Pike kept destroying ceiling tiles and the water fountain to the point where they stopped fixing the water fountain.
 
AtlAtty said:
We had a hack with the snack machine.
Someone figured out the by taping a dollar to a playing card, you could put the dollar in the machine, have it register as $1, then pull the dollar back out. We would then get something to eat, and the change. We were literally making money at the snack machine. I can’t remember how long this went on but it seemed like the entire dorm was doing it at one point.
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We had a hack for the laundry machine ticket dispenser . We figured out a way to keep the 3 quarters from dropping into the machine so we emptied the machines in Mahoney and Pearson lobbies and had enough tickets to do laundry all year for free.
 
Cuddlefish said:
We had a hack for the laundry machine ticket dispenser . We figured out a way to keep the 3 quarters from dropping into the machine so we emptied the machines in Mahoney and Pearson lobbies and had enough tickets to do laundry all year for free.
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With all our hacks I’m afraid we are the reason UM now costs 90k/year!
 
hoops156 said:
7th floor pearson. the jackasses from Pike kept destroying ceiling tiles and the water fountain to the point where they stopped fixing the water fountain.
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"Jackasses from Pike" is duplicative.

Although, speaking of jackasses, Steve-O briefly went to UM. Hung out at the ATO house. Did a lot of crazy pranks back then too.
 
Garnacho said:
I’m a tripping or was there a hack in the Mahoney elevators where you could hold the floor button where you were going and the close door button and it would just skip every floor?
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That is supposedly a hack on all elevators for EMS. Not sure if it's true, but was told to me by a nurse.
 
I know it's all being done in the name of progress but it's hard to see them go.

Spent many a long night at Mahoney Pearson in the mid-90's.
 
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