Free money!
Back when I were a wee lad of about 8 or 9, my family lived in a caravan park for a short time while my dad was renovating our house. On this caravan park they had a kiosk, where residents could buy the necessities and the not so necessaries.

This was long enough ago that soft drink / pop / what-have-you was sold in large glass bottles. After consuming the sugary goodness therein, said bottles could be returned for a hefty deposit of two bob (twenty cents). This was a princely sum to me - it was more than a week's pocket money! I didn't actually get any pocket money at the time, but that's neither here nor there.

Understandably, much time was spent scouring the caravan park for empty bottles, which were quickly exchanged for silver. However, it was a slow process and fraught with danger (lots of barking doggies in this caravan park, not to mention scary shouty caravan-dwelling troglodytes).

One day, we found where the kiosk staff stored the empty returns. Hundreds of them, around the back of the kiosk, in big crates, hidden behind a fence, with an open gate. Where no-one could see you.

Yes, I did get rich quick. Unfortunately I spent all my ill-gotten gains on lollies / sweeties and was violently ill for the next 6 hours. I didn't do it again.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 19:57, 1 reply)

Oh yes...
Done this at the local Lipton's (fuck I'm old) - 10p a bottle back in the halycon days of youth...

*sigh*
( snee held his breath since, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 0:10, closed)