Monday, March 14

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"