worst way you've ever been caught cheating?

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Anonemous

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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: kalrith
I have never cheated and would never cheat, but I have a good story to tell (sorry it's so long).

I heard this on the radio several years ago. It might have been after the fact, but either way it's still crazy. Some coworkers knew this guy was cheating on his wife with a girl in another city that he was frequently sent to for work. The coworkers told some radio talk-show hosts in that city about it, so they set the guy up. They first called his girlfriend, asked her to indulge about their relationship (she thought it was a very serious one), and said they were going to call her man and give him some flowers to send to her. They called him up while she was still on the line, but she wasn't supposed to say anything. They said he had won some flowers, and they just needed to know who to send them to. He says, "Send them to my wife Cindy." The girlfriend then gets hysterical and says "YOUR WIFE CINDY!?" and many colorful metaphors followed.

It was entertaining and terrible all at the same time. At least she knew the truth, but what a way to find out!

Snopes link with audio


For some reason I hear this same old skit/act that's usually played on the radio around Valentines... :)
 

compuwiz1

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In bed with a woman, and suddenly S/O bursts into the house, saying "honey I'm homo!" ;)
 

Eeezee

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Originally posted by: her209
True story. In freshman year, my EE intro class uses the same homework every semester. The answer key is passed out after the homework is turned in. However, if you knew someone who took the class the previous semester, you could simply copy the answers. On one homework assignment, I accidentally stapled the answer key to my homework when I turned it in.

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lol oh ******, what happened?
Stern warning from the grader and a 0 on the assignment. Doh!

Still would up with an A though. :D

What pathetic excuse for a college did you go to? :confused:

Come on, that's uncalled for. This is entirely grader discretion to tell the TA, then it's the professor's discretion whether to report it or not (it's a single homework assignment, not a significant portion of the grade and probably not worth the light paperwork). And then he probably would have appealed it (because everyone does) thus wasting a lot of time and energy even though he would inevitably lose (don't know the poster myself, but that's what happens every time).

It has nothing to do with the college, it sounds like the issue stopped at the grader; the grader decided to cut him some slack in what could be a very serious situation because the homework probably isn't worth jack when it comes to the final grade.
 

Eeezee

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I don't cheat in relationships, that's very serious to me.

I also don't cheat academically, but I do have some good stories because I'm a grader. We had one guy that got greedy, he would flunk a test and then show up at the professor's office with a completely misgraded test! He went from like a 39 to a 72 on the second exam. Either the test was seriously graded poorly or he rewrote the answers in such a way to not be noticed, since there were no eraser smudges and the writing looked convincing enough to have been done during the exam (equal spacing between lines, no lines were crossed out, no serious mistakes were redone).

So the professor photocopied the student's third graded exam before returning it. Same thing happened, so he asked the student to go home and said that he'd regrade it later. Comparison with the photocopy revealed that he was just really clever in the way that he cheated. He took the test in such a way that he didn't do much work and left himself plenty of room between lines so that he could write more stuff down. It was practically on a professional level, and I can only assume that he did this for all of his science/math classes. He contested it, but the evidence made it too obvious that he had intentionally cheated. A black mark was placed on his academic record for 5 years, it's on every page of his transcript and anyone can find out about it. I honestly don't know why it gets removed, in 10 years it wouldn't matter anyway but why bother taking it off?

That was when I graded for the physics department. I grade for the astronomy department now, and we're required to photocopy ALL tests and compare the photocopies to the originals if there is a question as to whether or not there was a misgrade.