Hey, I’m looking to sneak into the annual art party at the Whitney museum. Tickets are about $500 and I am not looking to pay for it. Thinking of carrying a case of water on my shoulder and quickly telling security i work with the caterers and have to get to work which has worked at lots of events in the past. Wondering if anyone has dealt with similar security situations at major NYC museum events. Thanks

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A friend and I are attempting to sneak into the waste manager open greenskeeper suite for this years tournament. Last year we attended through all access business passes, but this year we do not have that luxury unfortunately.

We have brainstormed various ways of sneaking in this year but all directions point us back to these RFID bands. With that being said, does anybody have any wholesale manufacturers that make small batch replica bands? Or have ideas on how I can sneak me and my buddy in?

Willing to 💰

I'm going to be staying in a hotel for a day soon during a long layover, and plan on having a friend who lives nearby come and visit me while I'm there. I should have lunch and dinner included in my stay, and want to figure out whether I'll be able to bring my friend along to the buffet. If they ask for my room number, will they be able to see how many people are entitled to buffet access?

This is extremely difficult to pull off especially if you do not speak the language. But if you dress the part and know a few key phrases very well. It happened to me and they were surprised when they found out that I was not from the area at all.

Heading into Coachella for the first time April 18, have been to Bonnaroo and a few other music festivals more than 15 times. Any hacks out there to get better access? Sometimes I have been able to get a media pass through a friend and sometimes I volunteer through the first aid station for a few hours and get the medical pass to get full access since I work in the medical field. Sometimes I’ve been able to get an Accessibility pass for a documented medical condition. I’d like to get my husband and I close to Gaga and some other artists since this is his first festival. Any hacks out there for Coachella???

Two guys sneak into a festival

That's it lol. If anyone is willing to help and share their phone number that would be great. Dm If you're interested.

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I got two tickets for this concert in june in st. louis for my girlfriends birthday but the seats are not the best SOOOO i just wanna know of some ways i could potentially sneak onto the floor level or a close lever in general. I’ve heard of people having people who actually have floor seats just sending a ss of their ticket to whomever is trying to do this then scanning their real ticket to get in and showing their screen shotted ticket to get past the floor lever usher so if anyone by chance is also going to this hook me up.😅

A 'prisoner' was freed by CNN but in reality he was actually a Syrian Intelligence Officer. Actually Insane.
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TL, DR: I falsely claimed to be a citizen on multiple occasions while on vacation on a tourist visa and got everything I wanted out of every interaction, but almost got caught. If I have been caught, massive fines, 15 days in jail, immediate deportation without judicial review, cancellation of visa, and lifetime entry ban were inevitable consequences.

I am a Chinese Canadian who was born in China. According to Section 9 of the Chinese Nationality Law of 1980, a Chinese citizen who "voluntarily acquires citizenship in a foreign nation" and "is ordinarily resident in a foreign nation" ceases to become a Chinese citizen. My whole family have Canadian citizenship, but only the adults have fraudulently obtained Chinese ID cards. We don't have Chinese passports because having and using them makes us easy targets for getting caught just as we are leaving (China has exit immigration control, which means if I left the country on a Chinese passport, the Chinese authorities will make me prove I have the right to enter whatever country I claim to be going to.). My sister's son was born in Canada and has never been a Chinese citizen (also of note: China doesn't usually allow citizenship by descent, so even though the child's father has always had Chinese citizenship, he doesn't get to inherit it because his father, too, is a Canadian citizen. If you are Chinese, you know where this is going: dad is from Hong Kong and exempt from Section 9).

I went to China on vacation this past July (2024), and I had multiple stories of using fake IDs to achieve my objectives. The purpose of using a fake ID (that fake ID has my real name, of course, it's just "an ID I am not allowed to have") is simple: present myself to the world as "Chinese" rather than "Canadian" to make my life easier when conducting any kind of business in China.

I went to the bank with a passbook (Yes, it's an old technology, but they were common in 2008. That was the year when my grandfather died, and also the year our family moved to Canada. My father opened an account under my name and put my deceased grandfather's money in it at that time). After so many years, it accumulated some interest (China has a very low interest rate now, but it had very high interest from 2008 to 2014, unlike western countries). China has "ATM" devices that don't look anything like the bank machines you see in the West. As mentioned, China has a national ID system where every Chinese citizen has an ID, including me (Section 9 was triggered when I chose to become a Canadian citizen and the way for me to "act like I belong" is by having a Chinese ID by not telling the Ministry of Public Security of my status). So, I inserted the ID into the ATM, which activated the camera. The camera snapped a picture of me and confirmed my identity. All account (principal) balances were displayed on the screen.

Here is how the conversation between me and the bank teller went:

Me: I have this passbook and some money here and need a debit card to get the money out.

Teller: OK. Let me check your ID. What is your phone number?

Me: (Provided phone number)

Teller: Please show me proof that your phone number actually belongs to you

Me: OK. (I opened up the page proving the phone number is registered in my name with my ID)

(A while later)

Teller: Is it true that you never contributed to Social Security? Have you ever worked?

Me: (Lying) Ah, yeah, I work in America on a visa. (The truth: I am a Canadian citizen working from home for a company based in America)

Teller: How often do you come back to China? Once a year? For a few weeks?

Me: (Lying some more) Yeah (Truth: I come to China once every few years, not every year)

Teller: I can't approve you for a Type 1 account because it's clear you don't live here. I have to talk to the supervisor.

Me: OK, I can wait.

Teller: Since you don't live in China, how are you going to use that phone number?

Me: It's on WeChat, which works over cellular data and Wi-Fi, and I can only receive incoming messages

Teller: We're going to have a problem with that, since we can't call you. I will also have to talk to the supervisor about that. Please wait.

Me: OK

(Another while later)

Teller: OK, the supervisor said we will approve you for an account with transaction restrictions. Please download the mobile banking app and set up your online banking password

Me: Thank you. (App downloaded, online banking password set)

(Teller does something on a tablet)

(ATM dispenses brand new debit card)

Teller: Please set your PIN

(PIN set)

Days later, I went to a small motel. It is a cheap, unrated motel with 0 stars. I gave the hotel front desk 3 fake IDs and 1 Canadian passport.

(Clerk scans the fake IDs, as they have NFC chips implanted in them. They are determined to be valid.)

Clerk: Sorry, the child is a foreigner, and our motel does not accept foreigners.

Me: Then leave him off the registration and pretend he doesn't exist.

Clerk: OK, here are your key cards.

(We went up to our rooms.)

1 week after that, we were vacationing in Hong Kong. I managed to transfer the money from my debit card (mentioned above) to my mom's debit card because it has fewer restrictions (she had the account long before we moved to Canada). I did so by online banking. It's easy because China uses the UnionPay network for all of their debit cards. We then prepared to wire the money to Canada. The money was exchanged easily from Yuan to Canadian dollars. So, we filled out the wire details.

(Online initiation of international wire transfer to Canada under the reason category: "needing to transfer funds to vacation in Canada to visit Canadian relatives". The sender and receiver are the same person, my mom.)

Hours later, mom receives a call from a number no one ever heard of. We ignore the call.

1 day after that, I searched the phone number and found out it was the local bank branch calling, we called back using a VOIP service.

Me: So, what's the status of the wire transfer?

Branch representative: It's on hold. We are requesting a copy of your mother's Chinese passport and Canadian visitor visa.

Me: We don't have that, will the wire be returned? What about the wire transfer fee?

Branch representative: The wire will fail, but the fee cannot be refunded.

Me: OK

(1 day later, everyone is back in Canada. Both the wired funds and fee were fully refunded. The representative was lying.)

(1 week later, wire transfer is re-initiated. This time, under "providing financial support to foreign relative", and my sister is the named receiver of the funds.)

Another call from the bank

Branch representative: Please send (sister's) birth certificate to prove the relationship between sender and receiver, (sister's) passport and visa to prove where she is living, and (sender's) [fake] ID to prove sender's identity.

(Sister's uncertified Chinese birth certificate, current Canadian passport and mom's ID sent)

Branch representative: Wire is approved. Funds should arrive in a few days.

(Funds arrived 2 days later)

Me and four other girls are looking for a hotel to stay in outside the lincoln tunnel in nj so we can spend two days in nyc during christmas, but once I add in that there is a fifth person it makes me book two rooms. What are the chances we can get the fifth person in unnoticed? The entire point of five of us going was to make the hotel price cheaper :/

Went to a fancy hotel today for a large end of year meeting for my work. Had to walk past the breakfast bar on the way to my conference room.

Being early, I decided to have a quick buffet breakfast, then rocked up to my meeting with pastries and banana bread in hand.

Great way to start the morning.

I just bought concert tickets at the Planet Hollywood Theatre but they aren't GA. Any tips on getting to the floor? Does bribery work? I'm thinking around 100 dollars because it's two of us.

My gf and I were at Disneyworld (Orlando, early 80s), snuck in some alcohol and got pretty wasted. At closing time, last call for rides, we went to the Haunted Mansion and, of course, waited...and waited...and waited.

Once we got into the ride itself, we were standing in the first part where you can see the empty ride seats going by (right after where you get off the ride when you reach the end).

We were drunk and tired and tired of waiting so I grabbed my gf's hand and we jumped across the tracks and went out an unalarmed (maintenance?) exit door which led to the outside/back of the building.

We walked around the building and came across this enormous ramp leading underground. It was like as wide as an 8 lane interstate highway. It led underneath the entire park and we strolled down and through past dressing rooms and photo and video studios and Disney characters running around still in their costumes and maintenance golf carts rushing to and fro. Wild!

I kept whispering to my gf, "Just act like you belong and know where you're going."

Nobody looked at us or spoke to us the whole time.

We ended up walking a loooong way until we spotted a stairwell and we took it up back to the planet surface.We popped out INSIDE one of the empty storefronts on Main Street USA and climbed out a window onto the street just as the nightly parade and fireworks were finishing up.

Best trip to Disneyworld ever.