Germany's deposit scheme got rinsed by a man with a screwdriver and a dream, which is the most German crime ever committed.
Man ran the same bottle through a recycling machine 177,451 times and collected $47k
A drinks vendor in Cologne spent about €5,000 rigging his own reverse-vending machine so it would accept the same plastic bottle forever, then ran that single bottle through 177,451 times and cashed out roughly $47,000. German deposit machines normally shred each container and print a redeemable receipt, a loop he turned into a private money printer until investigators caught on.
Source: Man ran the same bottle through a recycling machine 177,451 times and collected $47k — BoingBoing
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