I always knew that engineering students thought they were smarter than everyone else, but when push came to shove, were pussies.
It seems that Jonathan Baldino, University of Colorado engineering student, thought that he could make his own bar code stickers and put them on boxes, thus giving him a little discount. He thought he could pass off $150 iPod speakers for $4.99. What a dumbass! He should have used an M.O. of a former client, who kept getting caught and spent three stretches in Ohio prisons because every Wal-Mart east of the Mississippi had his picture up at cash registers. Put the electronics in a large box for a cheap kid's toy and try to get through check-out paying for the kid's toy.
Anyway, Jonathan wimped out and confessed in a hand-written statement:
Then, in a second statement, he showed his true colors when he wrote:
He should have called a lawyer. Don't they teach that in engineering crime school?
Posted by Bill at December 8, 2005 06:16 PMIsn't it amazing how stupid some smart people can be?
(Consider, for example, you know who -- the one who thinks she can write her own dictionary over on my blog....)
Posted by: Joel Sax at December 9, 2005 12:19 AM