AUDIO: MAN ATTEMPTS THE SEINFELD MICHIGAN DEPOSIT BOTTLE SCAM
A Michigan man was busted for trying to return more than 10,000 bottles for the 10-cent deposit. Brian Edward Everidge, 44, of Columbiaville, Michigan, was stopped for speeding around 10 p.m. on April 27. The officer noticed a large quantity of bottles in Everidge’s rental vehicle and became suspicious. Subsequent investigation revealed Everidge’s alleged plot to return more than 10,000 non-returnable bottles he had gathered from other states that were not Michigan. Michigan has a bottle deposit policy, allowing you to receive 10-cents for every bottle you return. However, the beverages have to have been purchased in Michigan. According to Michigan’s Beverage Containers Act, anyone attempting to return 10,000 or more nonreturnable containers can be found guilty of a felony. On the sitcom “Seinfeld”, Kramer and Newman once tried to pull the same scam by loading a mail truck full of cans and bottles in New York and driving them to Michigan.
* Oh, great. It’s life imitating a TV series.
* Next up: the one where Seinfeld tries to figure out if Teri Hatcher’s breasts are real.
* You know what they’re going to tell this guy in the prison cafeteria: “No soup for you.”
* At least he wasn’t imitating the show “Hannibal” and carving people up.
* Too bad. That $1,000 could have really turned his life around.
* “You honor, are you really going to punish me for caring too much about recycling?”
* “I’m just trying to save the planet one empty bottle at a time.”
* CLIP: Kramer discusses the Michigan Deposit Bottle Scam.
