My friend's friend is a professor on the appeal board at my university. In other words, he is on a board of people who listen to students who have been caught cheating on exams, projects, etc. He says while on the board, he has never been on a panel (and he's been on many) where the student was actually innocent. Some of the stories he's heard about them stating why they're innocent have been hilarious. For example:
One student accused the prof of being racist to chinese students. Not surprisingly, the student caught cheating was Chinese. The prof had been married to a Chinese person for the past 25 years and lived in China for 10 of them. That student, instead of being suspended for a year, was expelled from the faculty. hah.
Anyway, this topic asks three questions:
1) What is the worst thing you've been CAUGHT doing? I don't mean something you did such as a cheating on an exam and getting away with it, but CAUGHT doing. Doesn't have to be school related at all.
2) What was the excuse you gave, if any?
3) A story about other people who have gotten caught that you know/can/want to share.
For me, I was caught stealing one, yes one, Magic the Gathering trading card that was left on a table. It was a common worth about a fraction of a penny but it was there, so I decided to take it. I got caught, and was humiliated in public. I was 10. The excuse I made was non-sensical about it accidentally sticking to my hand or some shit.
Story: My friend is a TA for first year physics and a lab demonstrator for the same class. One day, he reads a report that really stands out. It stands out because he freaking wrote it. It was word for word copied from a report he wrote a few years previous. Apparently, his old lab partner has been sending it to students for years. SHIT HIT THE FAN.
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