got you all beat in forging u.s. currency...
back in highschool me and my buddies (1992) had a small "addiction" playing street fighter 2.
we played it before class, during lunch and after class at the local liquor stores.
well as you can all guess, .50 a play added up. (yes, those damn liquor store owners knew how popular the game was and decided to price gouge)
i forgot how i learned it, but if you take a nickel and take a normal 16 ounce hammer and set the nickel on your garage floor, you can pound the nickel into the shape of a quarter.
then once it is the diameter of the quarter, you put it in the video game machine and it works like a charm.
now this was back in 1992, and im sure over the past 10 years the machines are sophisticated enough to realize its not a quarter. but it just might work.
another thing we did, was we used to like going down to the local pier to hang out.
well, the bastards at city hall decided to put up parking meters. these parking meters were the mechanical kind, where you pop in change, and then turn the mechanical lever. (getting harder and harder to find those types of meters nowadays. everything is electronic)
well to avoid paying the change meter, we would take our wallets. turn the lever till it was horizontal, then with wallet in right hand, smash the lever down as hard as we could. if done right, about 4 hours would appear on the meter. it took a while to get the hang of it, but i was able to do it in LESS time than it would take to pay the meter like you were supposed to.
i was so good, there was a cop sitting across the road looking at us, and i had my buddy stand in front of the meter, nonchalantly, and i was so quick that the cop never knew what was going on.