Monday, March 14, 2005

Getting Away With It - Almost

1. "Woman 'spent more than a year in hotel without paying'"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_828289.html>
"Fumi Takemiya clocked up a bill of more than £14,000 during her 379-day
 stay at a hotel in the southwestern city of Usuki"

2. "NYU student slept in the library ? full time"
   <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4843992/>
"A New York University sophomore who says he spent eight months sleeping
 in a library basement because he couldn't afford campus housing has been
 moved to a free dormitory room... Scores of students read about Stanzak?s
 daily adventures on his Web journal, www.homelessatnyu.com, and he became
 something of a campus celebrity"

3. "Zimbabwe female athlete 'was man'"
   <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4249949.stm>
"One of Zimbabwe's leading junior athletes, who has won several gold medals
 in women's events, is really a man"

4. "Woman poses as army officer"
   <http://www.hwt.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9353725%255E1702,00.html>
"A woman posing as a military officer conned her way onto a British airforce
 base and lived there undetected for five months, even running up a large
 bar bill"

5. "Jail for cleaner who set himself up as a dentist"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_678660.html>
"Using the certificate and a forged document from the Vienna Chamber of
 Medical Practitioners, he got a job in a dental practice as a replacement
 dentist"

6. "Bogus doctor jailed for 10 years"
   <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4209509.stm>
"He admitted 30 charges, at Middlesex Crown Court, of preparing psychiatric
 reports on hundreds of asylum seekers"

7. "Bogus doctors surgery operated for more than 20 years"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_685502.html>
"Five women including a former primary school teacher and a waitress ran a
 doctors surgery in Switzerland for more than two decades without being
 caught"

8. "Arrest in bogus worker inquiry"
   <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/4283061.stm>
"Detectives investigating a series of incidents on Teesside involving a
 bogus social worker have arrested a woman"