Ask HN: Share the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system
It's YC application time and this one of the best questions on the app. I love reading people's life hacks. Please share :)
Over time it became obvious that people who worked for the bus-company would just jump on the buses, chat briefly to the driver, and not pay. They'd get off after 1-15 stops and have ridden for free.
I figured there were sufficiently many bus-drivers and buses that they can't all have been personally familiar to each other, and reasoned that the "uniform" must have been what swayed it.
I created a replica-bus-driver-uniform and had a weekend where I rode around for free, unchallenged.
Not terribly useful, and perhaps not possible these days now that the staff also wear ID-cards a lot of the time, but I was a little pleased with myself regardless.
All in good fun I suppose...