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The temptation to try out a TikTok hack of stealing coins from laundromat coin machines proved too hard for one Hamilton woman to resist and within two weeks she’d fleeced nearly $400 from several businesses.

“Clearly, it works,” Judge Stephen Clark said dryly to Tira Ngahiriwa Mereana Tipene’s counsel, Kerry Hadaway, in the Hamilton District Court today.

While the method is detailed on the social media app, NZME has chosen not to print exactly how Tipene pocketed her ill-gotten gains, other than to say she was able to “trick the machine” into giving her coins using a banknote.

Tipene first tried out the method using a $20 note in a coin machine at the Peachgrove Rd 24/7 laundromat on April 18. . .

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>The temptation to try out a TikTok hack of stealing coins from laundromat coin machines proved too hard for one Hamilton woman to resist and within two weeks she’d fleeced nearly $400 from several businesses. >“Clearly, it works,” Judge Stephen Clark said dryly to Tira Ngahiriwa Mereana Tipene’s counsel, Kerry Hadaway, in the Hamilton District Court today. >While the method is detailed on the social media app, NZME has chosen not to print exactly how Tipene pocketed her ill-gotten gains, other than to say she was able to “trick the machine” into giving her coins using a banknote. >Tipene first tried out the method using a $20 note in a coin machine at the Peachgrove Rd 24/7 laundromat on April 18. . . [Archive](https://archive.today/FUXOv)

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[–] 1 pt 9mo

Kids were doing this with coke machines at my high school. This was a very long time ago. One of the machines you could hold the coin return button in, insert a dollar, and you'd get 4 quarters AND the dollar back.

[–] 0 pt 9mo

People still go to laundromats?