Drexel Looniversity

I feel like my degree is slowly being de-valued...

For those who haven't heard, a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde have been fleecing their friends, local businesses, and even neighbors out of hundereds of thousands of dollars here in Philadelphia.

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20071205_THE_PARTYS_OVER.html

Apparently the thievery ran the gamut from stealing out of neighbor's mailboxes (including possible/ likely identity theft), and falsifying checks and credit cards, to shoplifting and plain old dine-and-dash style bill-skipping.

Jocelyn Kirsch, the "Bonnie" of this story, is an apparently high-maintainence, 22-year old Senior at Drexel University (my alma mater) and was in cahoots (love that word) with 25-year old Penn graduate Edward Anderton. Anderton had recently been let go from his job; one that somehow involved property management (he was apparently in posession of keys for every apartment mailbox in the building the two were living in).

I'd like to think a crime of such crass unsophistication was more the brain-child of the Penn grad than of Kirsch. Besides, when Drexel grads committ major felonies we do it with a high-tech level of sophistication...

http://www.columbiachronicle.com/back/2002_fall/2002-11-18/sports2.html

Now that's the kind of white-collar crime this Dragon can be proud of!