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A German man swindled tens of thousands of Euros from a bottle recycling machine with a cunning system a judge admitted was a 'logistical master stroke'.
The man, who has not been named, was jailed for ten months after he was convicted of professional deception.
A court in Cologne heard how he stole €44,362.75 from the machine by inserting the same bottle into the machine 177,451 times.
The drinks salesman put a magnet sensor and a wooden tube into the machine to prevent the bottle from being shredded.
As such the 37-year-old was able to put the bottle into the machine, receive the pennies in compensation and retrieve the bottle (still in tact) to feed it through again.
The court heard he put the same bottle into the machine 177,451 times during the painstaking process.
'I had a radio next to it because otherwise it was really boring', the man explained.
The defendant spent €5,000 on making the alterations to the machine, the Local reported.
The man's lawyer said it was a method 'by which one could earn good money with relatively little investment'.
The judge said the 37-year-old must have 'done nothing else every day other than attend to the machine.'
He was finally caught when an undercover officer was given a tip-off.
The man, who has not been named, was jailed for ten months after he was convicted of professional deception.
A court in Cologne heard how he stole €44,362.75 from the machine by inserting the same bottle into the machine 177,451 times.
The drinks salesman put a magnet sensor and a wooden tube into the machine to prevent the bottle from being shredded.
As such the 37-year-old was able to put the bottle into the machine, receive the pennies in compensation and retrieve the bottle (still in tact) to feed it through again.
The court heard he put the same bottle into the machine 177,451 times during the painstaking process.
'I had a radio next to it because otherwise it was really boring', the man explained.
The defendant spent €5,000 on making the alterations to the machine, the Local reported.
The man's lawyer said it was a method 'by which one could earn good money with relatively little investment'.
The judge said the 37-year-old must have 'done nothing else every day other than attend to the machine.'
He was finally caught when an undercover officer was given a tip-off.
Nice idea, but implementation must have been booooooring as hell, radio or not. Should have been given probation for being a genius.
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