38 Diabolical Geniuses Who Refused to Play By the Rules
![38 Diabolical Geniuses Who Refused to Play By the Rules](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/4/795114_320x180.jpg)
Have you ever heard a rule and thought “Um, no”? Well these folks did, and rather than just flagrantly disregarding it, they decided the best way to subvert it was to carve out a sneaky loophole. They’re quite ingenious, really. Studio says you can’t wear your signature jacket without standing next to your signature motorcycle? Well, that thing is now with you in every scene. Is your strip club technically illegal? Turn it into a nightly art class! Spotify paying you like garbage because you’re not one of the handful of artists big enough to actually get anything out of their platform? Silent songs, played by your fans as they sleep.
From tricky camera shots to purposefully ruining takes, from canceling and restarting free trial subscriptions to turning your coat into your luggage, hear are a few of the many, many ways schemers have thwarted the most ridiculous rules and regulations imposed upon them…
![SOUTH PARK THE EPRETTIRED BUT WHOLE attle IVE Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were told that their game would never be allowed on store shelves with butthole in the title so they instead used the words but whole! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/2/795112.jpg)
![Strip club? Oh, you're referring to my art school. CRACKED.COM The owner of Erotic City Strip Club in Boise, ID had a big problem: state laws prohibited naked boobies. Except, that is, if said nudity had artistic merit. He gave out sketch pads to all his customers and called his nightly skin parade an art class.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/8/795108.jpg)
Source: The 4 Most Creative Ways People Used Loopholes to Get Rich
![TELL US NOW: BRILLIANT LOOPHOLES CRACKED Stewart M. has no regard for the FBI warning: For a while I'd buy physical copies of movies that came with digital copies, then I'd sell the physical copies at a used media store. Since the physical copies were usually the same price as the digital copy, it's a guaranteed discount for the movie.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/7/795107.jpg)
Source: Tell Us Now: 15 Brilliant Loopholes People Learned To Exploit
![To get the extremely bloody and violent film TAXI DRIVER into receiving an R rating instead of X, director Martin Scorsese desaturated the film. This is to make the blood less bright, because, according to MPAA, a faintly blood is considered orange an R, while blood a crimson is an X. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/1/795111.jpg)
![This just in: landlords are needlessly cruel! CRACKED.COM A San Francisco landlord converted a room into a storage unit, presumably by moving a single empty box into the foyer. An occupied room on the top floor was then, technically, no longer rent-controlled, and the rent was jacked up 400%](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/6/795106.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The word 'pregnancy'' was considered too inflammatory for I LOVE LUCY CBS thought it was too racy to have a pregnant woman on TV. but relented when the cast agreed to use words like expecting or a blessed event The title of the episode where Lucy tells Ricky the good news is written in French to protect viewers delicate sensibilities Lucy is Enceinte](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/5/795105.jpg)
![Government program exploited for free miles IN GOD we TRUST CRACKED.COM After minting $1 billion in dollar coins, the US government offered to swap out our dumb paper money for their newer, heavier counterparts, free of charge. Some clever scammers figured out how to use their credit card rewards points to start an endless cycle of: buying paper money on credit, having it exchanged for coins, then paying off the purchase with said coins. Zero dollars spent, unlimited miles earned for the pointless transaction.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/4/795104.jpg)
![TELL US NOW: BRILLIANT LOOPHOLES CRACKED Dani G. is a modern-day alchemist: for stores that have rewards programs, buy gift cards for that store when points are 4-10x the amount paid. Then use the gift cards at the store to get even more points. Welcome to Macy's, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/3/795103.jpg)
Source: Tell Us Now: 15 Brilliant Loopholes People Learned To Exploit
![CRACKED.COM I haven't been f*cked like that since grade school. Fight Club's iconic line was actually more light than the one originally intended. I want your abortion To appease producer Laura Ziskin, David Fincher agreed to change it with the condition that it would not be changed again. Ziskin agreed and had to accept the new line even though it's provocative.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/9/795109.jpg)
![Vulfpeck beats Spotify with the sound of silence. GRACKED.COM The Michigan-based funk band created a playlist of short, silent tracks, with titles like Zzz and Zzzzz, and encouraged fans to play it while they slept. That helped them collect more of the penny slivers that Spotify pays out for the music they stream.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/2/795102.jpg)
![Masturbation is nine tenths of the law GRACKED.COM When a woman took her coworker to court for -. we're so very sorry - masturbating into her coffee, the judge reluctantly ruled that no law in Minnesota expressly forbade this particular, horrifying behavior.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/1/795101.jpg)
![ABC said that Fonzie could only wear his leather jacket when he was next to his bike. HA THD Henry Winkler got around it by telling the writers to always write the bike into the scene, even when he was indoors. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/0/795100.jpg)
![Guy cashes junk mail check CRACKED.COM On a lark, Patrick Combs attempted to cash a piece of junk mail from a gimmicky work-from-home company, to the tune of $95k. Technically, because Combs' name was printed on it, the check was valid. His bank accused him of fraud, but it was all technically legal, and they were forced to let him withdraw the amount.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/9/795099.jpg)
![TELL US NOW: BRILLIANT LOOPHOLES ATICE PARAIN ENCI PARKING WAR NOTICE ENCLOSED WARNING GRACKED Alyssa N. has glamoured parking enforcement into committing typos: California doesn't allow zeroes on personalized license plates. Consequently, my plates say 100. I've never gotten a parking ticket that was written correctly. Unpaid parking tickets get attached to the following year's registration, but that doesn't work when the plate info on the ticket is wrong.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/8/795098.jpg)
Source: Tell Us Now: 15 Brilliant Loopholes People Learned To Exploit
![Librarians create fake library card to save thousands of books. CRACKED.co There's nothing more sacred to a librarian than a library card. But when a town in Florida decided to burn all the books that hadn't been taken out in a while, local librarians made a fake card for one Chuck Finley. Chuck, who doesn't exist, checked out 2, 361 books to keep them from being Fahrenheit 451'd.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/7/795097.jpg)
Source: 6 Hilarious Loopholes Normal People Used To Beat The System
![A bar declared its patrons actors CRACKED.com Minnestoa's Barnacles Bar discovered that, if you were an actor in a play, and your character smoked... well, the statewide smoking ban wasn't going to get in the way of your art. The owners declared they were simply staging a permanent, improvised play.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/6/795096.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM The network didn't want to show two women in sexual a relationship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the episode Once More with Feeling, Tara and Willow climb into bed, and the camera locks on Tara's face as she sighs and sings lost in ecstasy/ spread beneath my Willow tree/ you make me COM...plete](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/5/795095.jpg)
![Gambling is illegal, but bartering isn't CRACKED.COM Japan has very strict gambling rules, but Pachinko remains extremely popular and sometimes lucrative. Instead of money, Pachinko machines dole out a bunch of ball bearings that you can exchange for prizes. You can then exchange those prizes at a nearby, unmarked, totally unaffiliated store, for money.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/4/795094.jpg)
Source: The 4 Most Creative Ways People Used Loopholes to Get Rich
![Dilbert creator Scott Adams once submitted a strip showing a cop firing a gun. It got rejected. POLICE NEGOTIATOR I'LL LEAVE AN EVALUATION FORM SURRENDER NOW HERE PLEASE LET US KNOW AND YOU WON'T HE HOW WERE COMES DOING! GET HURT!!! BAM BAM DONE ii/ DEAL. BAM He submitted another version with the cop using a donut as a gun. It got accepted. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/0/795110.jpg)
![TELL US NOW: BRILLIANT LOOPHOLES GRACKED Greg B. only poops on company time:I always had enough time for my clockwork morning poo, finishing bang on time before work. Manager was constantly watch-checking, so I started holding it for 15 minutes and going during my shift. That micro-manager essentially coerced me into playing the paid-to-poop system.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/3/795093.jpg)
Source: Tell Us Now: 15 Brilliant Loopholes People Learned To Exploit
![Simply wear your luggage to avoid luggage fees. CRACKED.COM People have gone to extreme-couponing lengths to avoid the overweight luggage fees that we all agree are useless. One man in China wore 70 items of clothing, while a European traveler has created a tutorial on how to turn your entire jacket into one huge pocket.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/2/795092.jpg)
![The Church of Cannabis CRACKED.COM Founder Bill Levin used the same Indianna laws that allowed for all manner of discrimination against same-sex couples, to legally choof some dank. His claim is that, legally, weed is an essential part of their religious practices, and thus free from government interference.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/1/795091.jpg)
![The NBC wanted to cut TV's first scripted interracial kiss, but William Shatner sabotaged the censored versions. Kirk's and Uhura's kiss on Star Trek wouldn't have happened if Shatner hadn't been making funny faces at the camera, ruining every take that ended without the kiss. The director hadn't realized it until after filming wrapped, and therefore, the network was forced to use the original version. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/0/795090.jpg)
![Dude memorized a GIF, won $100k CRACKED.COM Unemployed ice cream truck driver Michael Larson absolutely decimated the game show Press Your Luck, by simply memorizing the random pattern of the animated roulette wheel. He racked up winning selections and free spins until he voluntarily threw in the towel, due to sheer exhaustion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/9/795089.jpg)
![TELL US NOW: BRILLIANT LOOPHOLES CRACKED Dave s. pushed the quantum limits of tardiness: the tardy policy at my old job started at 10 minutes, but there wasn't a distinction between 15 minutes and 3.5 hours. So if I woke up late, I'd just sleep in for another couple of hours.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/8/795088.jpg)
Source: Tell Us Now: 15 Brilliant Loopholes People Learned To Exploit
![Soccer fan gets booted from stadium; rents a crane. CRACKED.COM Turkish soccer fan Ali Demirkaya got a temporary ban from his local stadium, but he still refused to miss a game. He spent $86 to watch from a crane parked nearby.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/7/795087.jpg)
Source: Time
![Ain't no law says a man can't dig a ditch CRACKED COM An intricate underground lair was discovered at a Toronto park, and two 20-somethings were found to have dug themselves a literal mancave. Local police wanted to bust them, but ultimately conceded there's no crime against digging a hole.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/6/795086.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The 1999 South Park film was originally named: South Park:All Hell Breaks Loose The MPAA didn't allow Trey Parker and Matt Stone to use the word Hell, SO they came up with a new name: SOUTH PARK BIGGER, LONGER, AND UNCUT This title passed the probe and the MPAA didn't get the uncircumcised penis-related joke.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/5/795085.jpg)
![Boy band sticks it to an airline REWIND Follow @rewind music For everyone asking James is ok He is being looked after in hospital now back home safe in Glasgow. He sends you all his love a 7:52 -8 Jul 2015 27.39 65 CRACKED.COM James McElvar of Rewind once chose to wear every article of clothing he'd packed, rather than pay the $45 baggage fee. He did collapse from heat exhaustion halfway through the flight... but he saved nearly half a hundred dollars!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/4/795084.jpg)
Source: 5 Brilliant Loopholes People Used To Cheat The System
![TELL US NOW: BRILLIANT LOOPHOLES 40 30 50 20 20 30 60 mph 10 *10 40 70 so. 011094 8o km/h P km GRACKED Mike M. stuck it to the micro-man: My old company questioned every expense, no matter how justifiable. But they never questioned my vehicle travel mileage. So instead of filing receipts, I would expense the hell out of everything and quadruple the mileage actually driven.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/3/795083.jpg)
Source: Tell Us Now: 15 Brilliant Loopholes People Learned To Exploit
![Pirate Joe's exists in a legal no man's land. TRADER JOES JOE'S TRADER CRACKED COM In 2012, businessman Michael Hallatt started selling Trader Joe's goods in Canada, under the name Pirate Joe's, since there are no TJs in The Great White North. Despite a cease-and-desist letter, a judge decided that it was all above-board, since he was buying the products legally and paying import taxes at the border.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/2/795082.jpg)
Source: 6 Hilarious Loopholes Normal People Used To Beat The System
![If you're ugly enough, nudity isn't sexual CRACKED.COM A North Carolina man has been allowed to continue standing in his front doorway, flashing his junk, because he's technically on his own property. Another guy in Topeka started walking the streets completely nude, because local police said there's nothing sexual about his nudity. Honestly, a burn like that is punishment enough.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/1/795081.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM JOHN CARPENTER'S ON ASSAULT PRECINCT 13 INITIALLY RECEIVED AN X RATING FOR THE SCENE WHERE KIM RICHARDS' CHARACTER IS SHOT WHILE BUYING ICE CREAM. THE SCENE WAS CUT FROM THE FILM FOR RE-REVIEW AND THE MPAA LOWERED THE RATING TO R. THE FOOTAGE WAS THEN RE-ADDED BACK INTO THE MOVIE FOR CINEMATIC RELEASE.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/8/0/795080.jpg)
![Man flies for free, thanks to pudding CRACKED.COM In 1999, David Phillips crunched the numbers and found that 10 Healthy Choice proofs of purchase in exchange for 1,000 airline miles was an incredibly good deal - if you bought individual snacks instead of full meals. He bought over 12k cups of pudding, and Healthy Choice was forced to honor his 1.25 million miles.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/9/795079.jpg)
![TELL US NOW: BRILLIANT LOOPHOLES OLUMBIA OUSE CRACKED Melissa B. fondly recalls what was basically the opposite of a Ponzi scheme: Columbia House CD club. I don't even know how many times I cancelled and restarted my membership to get the free CDs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/8/795078.jpg)
Source: Tell Us Now: 15 Brilliant Loopholes People Learned To Exploit
![African Americans escape racism by wearing turbans. CRACKED.COM In the Jim Crow era, America's fickle brand of racism took the form of revering the exoticism of Indians. African Americans found they could confuse people's race-dar by wrapping some fabric around their head, even sometimes speaking in a Swedish accent for good measure.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/7/795077.jpg)
![Grape juice companies explained how NOT to make wine legal in your home CRACKED.CO To circumvent alcohol prohibition in the 20th century, some companies would sell concentrated grape bricks with detailed instructions on how you definitely should NOT use their product to make wine.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/6/795076.jpg)
![In the 1980s, parents disapproved of the PG rating for movies like Gremlins and Indiana Jones, SO Steven Spielberg invented the PG-13 rating for his future movies. In 1984, Red Dawn became the first movie to recieve a PG-13 rating. McDonald's OVER 45 BILLION SERVED DRIVE-THRU is CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/5/795075.jpg)