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From: witters@fluke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Funny Computer Crime Story.
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Date: Tue, 8-May-84 09:08:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  8 09:08:20 1984
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This is an old story, but there is a twist at the end I hadn't heard about.  I
copied this from an article about Computer Crime in the May 1984 IEEE Spectrum. 
I assume the story itself is public domain, so I reproduce it here without
permission.  Send flames to /dev/null or net.legal (to which I've unsubscribed).

The Charge: undefined
California, 1975
The take: Datsun 710 station wagon, a year's free supply of groceries,
innumerable $5 gift certificates

Twenty-six students, used their university's IBM 370/158 computer to print out
1.2 million 3-by-5 forms with their names and address -- enough paper to
cover two and a half football fields.  They used these forms to enter a contest
held by McDonald's restaurants that offered $40,000 in prizes.  Their entries
made up over one third of the 3.4 million total entries.  Though McDonald's
protested the lack of ethics, the students met the contest qualifications and
were allowed to keep their prizes.  Since they had paid for their computer
time, the school took no action against the students for using school computing
resources.  Burger King awarded $3000 to the school to set up a scholarship
honoring the students.


				Go ahead, punk.  Make my day....

						(... At McDonald's ...)