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Abbie Hoffman — Part 30
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be laid oo you, and by, the eave of panhandling,” says this
id-famed expert” - .
{| AT BUPER MARKETS, they steal. “We have been thop-
_ Mifflng trom mipermarkets on a regular basis,” says ti
_ thief, who claims that stolen food tastes better.
-* A legitimate way to acquire free food is to get day-okd
i vegetables ‘and the outer leaves of lettuce, celery and the
j Bike, ssually found in crates behind the stores. Dented cans
J and dented fruit also can be obtained free. Large cities
3 have wholesale produce markets where workers are offen
# good for free food, especially if you put on clerical garb.
THERE ARE COUNTLESS ways of conning free meals
in restaurants. Carry in a dead cockroach and raise a scene
° the end of the meal, Hoffman says. Switch checks with
, a ederate, Make five or six bars which serve fs
cores as & come-on for booze. A real feast may be hhd
ashing wedding receptions and (estimonial dinners. |
_ A little deception and some fake rent receipts can get &
er hippie on the food stamp program, worth “bundrlpds
dollars a month per person in the most liberal states. i
| There are a Dumber of simple ways to cheat the phine
Fe panies, and Hoffman tells them all. You can get $150 to
$600 in advatce by willing your body to a medical school, he
staies. Airlines pay $250 for each piece of luggage lost
while flying. :
Hoffman uses Easter Seais for postage stomps. When
. hitchhiking, be carries a bottle opener and straw to snitch
° drinks out of coolers.
Abbie Hoffman, of course, also i is a serious revolutionazy.
It Is Jogical to assume that his Utopia would be run alot}
lines—cheating, lying, stealing. Nobody would haj
“? to work in the United States of Hoffman.
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