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>>1317+(OP)
This reminds me of exploits we used to do to arcade cabinets back in Sydney in the 80's and 90s. The school gas heaters used to have what we called "clickers", piezoelectric ignition devices you could remove from the heaters.

You then took that clicker to your local arcade, and clicked one of the corners of the CRT, that would send a shock through the system and add credits to your game. I believe this was because the CRT was grounded on the same ground lines that the mechanism for physically checking a coin had gone through the system.

Suffice to say, they caught onto this over time, and added some form of an alarm into it. But up until then... Those were truly the best times.

>>intoth+k4
Reminds me of an arcade machine a friend would get behind, turn it off and back on, and it would give you a free token. Maybe its designed that way so the employee can test it for free, not sure. But he climbed behind it, and proceeded to play for free.

>>gianca+s9
Those who lived in USSR remembers soda vending machines (they poured your drink in a glass cup; you were expected to wash it before using by pressing on a cup, which stood upside down on plastic plate with holes, kinda inverted shower head; very unhygienic, I know). Well it had a button behind that let you have a free drink. You could also "upgrade" pure carbonated water (1 kopeyek) to a sweet soft drink (3 kopeyek) by pressing another button. needless to say schoolchildren would abuse the hell out of this "feature".

>>IWeldM+Yc
> you were expected to wash it before using by pressing on a cup, which stood upside down on plastic plate with holes, kinda inverted shower head; very unhygienic, I know

Those systems are occasionally used in bars in the US, though they've dropped the whole plate and it's usually just arms where the holes are.

To my understanding, at least in the US, they aren't used for deep-cleaning anything. That happens with soap and water in the back still. The upside-down-showers are used to clean out the dregs of someone's glass when they get a refill (you give them a glass, they give it a quick rinse, refill it and hand it back), and as a quick rinse for new glasses to clean up water stains/detergent residue and anything that might have fallen in since they were cleaned (hair, dust, etc).

>>everfo+5l
Its been a long time since I worked in a bar, but in the front-of-house we used a three-sink station where the sinks were: soap, water, sanitizing-solution. Then you sit the glasses to drip-dry.

Actually here is a link explaining it: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/article/620/three-compartme...

>>JamesS+MC
I've seen something like this in the Netherlands, although even more disgusting: They take the used glass, dunk it in a bucket that has brushes all around and in the middle and is full of soapwater, rotate the glass three times against the glass, take it out, and pour the beer in the glass.

Yes, the glass's sides are still full of the disgusting soapwater from the bucket that's now basically 95% other people's drink dregs.

>>stavro+LJ
People in the UK bery often do the whole "washing dishes in the bucket" thing which is ridiculous