If you are making $2 buying cereal through a combination of coupons and sales, that is beyond clever coupon strategy and into the area of exploiting a loophole.

It's still brilliant (and I would do it too!), but the moral compass is pointing south on that one.

@zikzak - That's so cute that you call it a "pop" bottle :)

I call it a soda bottle too, but believe it or not, as far as usage goes we're not exactly in the majority:

Usage Map: http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html

If you threw it on a spacewalk, at just the right angle, it would still come back to you.

...as soon as it finished orbiting the Earth.

In mother Russia, stick copies you!

If this happened to me, I'd say that the data on my hard drive is sensitive to the person I'm visiting, and has been encrypted with their public key. I can't decrypt it, nor can any existing physical machine on earth. There's no reason for them to hold the drive.

Of course, that's assuming they reacted logically. They probably try to find the private key using a body cavity search.

Still no cure for cancer.

They can't use turkey left-overs.

If they did, the plane would get very sleepy.