A professor’s laptop was stolen. A student apparently thought it was a clean theft. Right? WRONG? The professor used the last few minutes of his class to explain to the anonymous student exactly how huge his error was. CLICK HERE to hear his speech — but make sure to go to the third link and use the one that says “I trimmed out the actual educational part of the lecture and just left the ‘good part.'” (The first link makes you sit through a biology lecture for 50 minutes and on my computer it wouldn’t play the relevant part). I mean, I didn’t steal his computer and I’M read to go to his office and turn myself in. (The probation department should hire this guy.
UPDATE: An alert reader sent me this link that says the prof was bluffing. And even though he got coverage on the Internet (we are like Jack In The Box fries — small potatos..) he never got his laptop back.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.