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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In Thailand, a medical school caught prospective students cheating on an entrance exam. The three students used glasses with embedded cameras to send the test questions to people outside who then looked up the answers and transmitted the answers to the student’s smart watches. I would think one profession…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 42 views
Pennsylvania police say a man was arrested and charged with passing counterfeit money after he tried to use phony $20 bills to purchase items at a garage sale. They say the reason 40-year-old Gregory Douglas was caught was that he tried to give the money to the wrong person. The woman running the sale,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
It started simply for Danielle Shea, a Quinnipiac University student. When her tuition money from her parents arrived, she kept the money but dropped out of school. Her scheme worked until it was time for graduation. To keep her parents from discovering her dishonesty, she went a step further. She called…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
The commanding officer was furious when nine GIs who had been out on passes failed to show up for morning roll call. Not until 7 p.m. did the first man straggle in. “I’m sorry, sir,” the soldier explained, “but I had a date and lost track of time, and I missed the bus back. Being determined to get in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
An unknown customer of Taco Bell received the morning’s bank deposit instead of the tacos he ordered. The customer has yet to return the $2000. --The Week, May 28, 2010, p. 4 Illustration by Jim L Wilson and Rodger Russell Psalm 11:7 (NIV) "For the LORD is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 13 views
It’s a great and amazing invention, but it also is one of the great abusers of our time. It victimizes many. It’s the internet and one of its greatest victims is . . . the Truth! In fact let me give what one person says is some of the top lies told on the internet, especially in social networks: 6) Here’s…
Terry Cavanaugh • Illustration • • 1 view
Alex went public again at the University of Miami (to which he had contributed $3.9 million) for the renaming of the baseball diamond as Alex Rodriguez Park. He told the crowd it was "really nice to get out on a Friday night." He got out on Saturday night too, sharing a Valentine's dinner at the Fontainebleau…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 9 views
A bar patron in France paid with Monopoly money, taking advantage of confusion in Europe's currency switch to get a free drink, the bar's owner said Thursday. The board game now comes in a euro edition. Jean-Paul Boutan, owner of the bar in Auch, said the bartender was not used to the new notes and…