What have you got away with?

[PaulB]

What have you got away with and that you can write about safely?

Me, I once ran my own company that was swallowed up by a large, faceless multi-national. Anyway, once all the dust had settled, they told me they would take my vehicle from me and as I no longer needed it, I was happy to let them do so. In return for this, they would give me a first class rail ticket home and a cheque for £1000. They sent me a cheque in respect of this twice! Anyway, I took the vehicle to their head office and handed over the keys but the transport manager told me he had no garaging space for it so to drive it home and they would call me in a couple of weeks to have it uplifted. The two weeks turned into 18 months and still they didn't ask for it yet had picked up the payments on it!

Any unexpected gift horses you've had come your way?

 

[Dayvo]

Hopefully I'll get away with not paying a large amount outstanding on my student loan, as any amount is written off after the loaner reaches 50.

 

[Wigsie]

I am crap... usually get caught eventually...

 

[Kirstie]

I'm far too honest for my own good...

 

[Cubist]

I once sold a colleague's locker and contents to the local scrap dealer for a fiver 'cos he was acting like a knob one afternoon. (He got it back, but it cost him a tenner)

 

[Campfire]

After I'd done my Canal Walk the other week, I got the train from Todmorden to Manchester Victoria. No ticket office at station and nobody came to inspect/sell tickets on the train. No ticket collectors at Manchester Victoria or those ticket swallowing machines either.
I had a free ride - and for once in my life didn't go to find anyone to pay! I was so knackered I hadn't the energy. haha

 

[Brains]

Our Wedding !

150 people, a world heratage site, we paid the external stuff such as the photographer, the musicians etc. but never paid for the venue, the food, the booze etc (we know the bar bill alone was £750)

We tried to pay the bill, twice, but as the company was being closed down by the venue who wanted to take over, so we have always guessed someone 'lost' our invoices to get back at them.

We kept the money in a special bank account for about 4 years before using it as a deposit for a house.

 

[slowmotion]

What have you got away with and that you can write about safely?

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{ ..nervously turns up collar of trenchcoat and talks out of the side of mouth in a dimly lit underground carpark..}

I, erh, once poked fun at some people on a Climate Change thread, and I'm still alive.....just...

 

[TheDoctor]

I got made redundant, didn't have to work my notice and got £4000 on top of the statutary redundancy pay, pay in lieu of notice and holiday pay.
I had a week off, a weeks holiday and then started another job.
I'd have been handing my notice in within a week anyway.
*Ker-ching!!*

 

[vernon]

After I'd done my Canal Walk the other week, I got the train from Todmorden to Manchester Victoria. No ticket office at station and nobody came to inspect/sell tickets on the train. No ticket collectors at Manchester Victoria or those ticket swallowing machines either.
I had a free ride - and for once in my life didn't go to find anyone to pay! I was so knackered I hadn't the energy. haha

Funniliy enough, after seeing Tom Jones at the MEN Arena, I caught a train from Manchester Victoria to Sowerby Bridge - no-one to pay. No ticket collector or inspector on the train and Sowerby Bridge is an unmanned station. Saved £8.50

 

[Over The Hill]

{ ..nervously turns up collar of trenchcoat and tallks out of the side of mouth in a dimly lit underground carpark..}

I, erh, once poked fun at some people on a Climate Change thread, and I'm still alive.....just...

There is a gang of them heading up the hill* to my house right now. They were going to set my house on fire but decided it may push us over the tipping point to turn Earth into Venus.

(* the moral high ground apparently)

 

[Keith Oates]

I once worked for a big multinational company and got my salary paid twice in one month. To save embarrassment in the future I contacted the personnel department and told them about it, to which they replied "We don't make mistakes". I didn't press the matter any further!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[on the road]

I've got away with an awful lot, I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you!

 

[dav1d]

Once, my brother and I were camping in a field in Cheshire. Unfortunately, there was a festival that set up whilst we were there and an organiser called the police (despite their large tents!). The organiser falsely claimed to be from a council, but we later realised he was lying as he wouldn't have even been in the area, yet alone covered it!

Anyway, the police said if it was up to them, they'd let us stay as we weren't doing any harm, but it wasn't so we'd have to leave. So as we were tired, we moved the tent and had it up half mast so it couldn't be seen. The police and organisers decided to search with torches to make sure we'd gone. We watched them looking for us (and at one point, they came pretty close), but they didn't find us, so we stayed the night as we were tired (was a bit weird having a tent half up though!).

 

[slowmotion]

There is a gang of them heading up the hill* to my house right now. They were going to set my house on fire but decided it may push us over the tipping point to turn Earth into Venus.

(* the moral high ground apparently)

For Heaven's sake, Mann (sic), get a helmet cam, and wear it 24/7/365.

Those guys are nutters.