‘Seinfeld Scam’ Nets Huge Dollars for Busted Suspects in Michigan Mansions

"A half-million in cash is not 'Seinfeld' humor."

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September 28, 2007 at 12:04 pm - WDIV-TV
Dateline: Detroit, MI
Mr Bean   September 28th, 2007 - 2:05 pm

The state of Michigan is working the scam on its own citizens – collecting a tax of 10 cents a can for nothing. What’s illegal about recycling? They didn’t say what law was broken.

[...] In what is being referred to as the "Seinfeld Scam," thirteen free-thinking entrepreneurs have apparently taken some inspiration from a 1996 episode of the show in which Newman and a pre-racist Kramer head to Michigan laden with aluminum cans, hoping to exploit the state's generous 10-cent recycling rate for profit. Sure, the can-smugglers have technically committed fraud and cost Michigan millions of dollars, but they do deserve credit for at least borrowing a potentially lucrative plotline from the show; other, less-imaginative–but more law-abiding–fans are hardly getting rich from their Seinfeld-derived businesses and snapping up seven-figure mansions. 13 Arrested In Seinfeld-Type Scam [Liveleak via Breitbart] [...]

LIBERTY BELLES » Life Imitates “Seinfeld”   September 28th, 2007 - 6:40 pm

[...] So what’s the problem? Michigan gets to recycle as many cans as were sold in its state. But apparently they’d rather have the cash from unreturned cans. Could it be that recycling doesn’t pay? Suspenseful news coverage on video here. [...]

Fart Knocker   September 29th, 2007 - 1:06 am

Michigan has been running a scam on it’s citizens for years. No wonder the state is bankrupt. The state of Morons deserved to have the same scam they perpetrate on everyone else to happen to them.

[...] 13 Arrested In Seinfeld-Type Scam [Liveleak via Breitbart] [...]

[...] 13 Arrested In Seinfeld-Type Scam [Liveleak via Breitbart] [...]

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