Stealing for science
Students at the University of Twente (The Netherlands) have stolen thirty laptops from various members of the universitys staff. They were not prosecuted for this, so they could just get on with their studies. Indeed, these students even received ECTS credits for these thefts. UT researcher Trajce Dimkov asked the students to steal the machines as part of a scientific experiment. Stealing these laptops turned out to be a pretty simple matter....
Source: PhysOrg - Friday, 17 February
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