 Bar Cons
I thought I'd add a little something that A) works, and B) doesn't involve printing, credit cards, bank accounts, ebay etc. A good old fashioned upclose scam involving magic. YAY!
Ok, so you're at a bar with some buddies and you're down to your last dollar but you don't want to stop drinking, or maybe you need some cab fare to get home (your "I'll just get REALLY drunk and take the ambulance home" idea didn't pan out just yet). So here's how you can take that last dollar, and get not only a free drink, but also some cash.
You will need:
a medium sized bar, prefferably with two or more bartenders and one cash register
a friend
a one dollar bill
a bar napkin
a bar glass
a lighter or matches
a pen or marker
the gift of gab
Now, you start by chumming it up with a bartender, I preffer a lady bartender, but that's just me. It helps if you know a few other magic tricks with which to impress, but this can be your only one. I like to start into a conversation about how it's crap that people think that they can harm something that isn't theirs. I keep up with this line of thought for a minute and then set in. Then I prove it. I have them fetch me a large bill from the till, and a bar glass. Meanwhile I wad and palm my measley $1. (I also usually crumple a piece of flash paper with it but it's not necessary at all just adds some flare and helps it burn quicker)
Now, have them sign the bill, large as they please with the marker, then hand it over. Make a show of wading the bill up, keeping it displayed in the tips of the fingers, and quip something about "see it's not destroyed!" then chuckle and ask for a bar napkin. They are usually right there. As they are distracted giving you the napkin perform a pass switch for the $1 bill. (you can also perform the switch by doing a french drop, or however you're mist comfortable, just switch it keeping everything in plain sight) Now immediately wad the bar napkin around the bill and drop it in the bar glass. Now explain that you're going to attempt to destroy something that is not your's and that you're going to fail. Light the napkin-bill wad aflame inside the glass and make sure it burns completely into ash. As you're doing this, back pass the bar's bill to your friend who then goes to the other bartender and orders a drink, or asks for change. Once this has been accomplished and the barglass is full of ash, make a show, cover the glass with a napkin, whatever. I like to simply dump the ash into my hand and then blow it into the air. Now, go on about how it seems as though you actually DID destroy the bar's bill, but that things arn't always as they appear. Lead the bartender to check the till just to be sure it didn't "fly home". They will be surprised to find their signed bill right there in the till where it should be. You are officially amazing, they WILL usually give you a drink or two on them, your mate got a free drink, and now you have some change to get home on, buy a pack of smokes, whatever it is you people do with this money stuff.
I know it's a little scary at first, you may want to have an extra bill of the same denomination on you in case you fuck it up to pay for the drink, but trust me, once you get the hang of it/ grow the balls this works every time. I've been doing this trick ALL over New York for about a year, even paid my rent once by barhopping with this trick. This method has been covered in the show "scam school" a clip of which (hxxp://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-con-a-bartender-out-of-20-with-a-magic-trick-272941) taught me, then I refined it a bit to my own style.  | 
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