The Daily Misanthrope

May 23, 2026  •  Misanthrope Index: 8.3 — Approaching Walken

Folly of the Day

A Chick-fil-A Employee Rang Up 800 Fake Mac-and-Cheese Orders Through the POS System and Issued $80,105 in Refunds to His Own Personal Credit Cards. The POS System Records Every Transaction and Every Card Number.

He ran 800 phantom mac-and-cheese transactions through a system that records every transaction, every refund, and every card number at the end of each refund chain, then directed the proceeds to his own personal credit cards — a scheme whose only structural requirement was that the POS system not work the way POS systems work.

Source: NBC News

The Wire

A 28-Year-Old Woman Enrolled in a Bronx High School as a 16-Year-Old Student Named 'Shamara Rashad.' The Principal Searched Facebook and Found Her Real Name, Age, and a Photo With Her Baby.

Kacy Claassen maintained her 'Shamara Rashad, age 16' identity for fifteen days before the principal searched Facebook and found her real name, her real age, and photographic evidence of a baby, which is the expected lifespan of a cover identity whose destruction required one search bar.

Source: KCRG

The Wire

Two South African Police Generals Were Arrested at O.R. Tambo International Airport for Unlawful Possession of Precious Metals and Corruption

Generals Feroz Khan and Ebrahim Kadwa were arrested at O.R. Tambo International Airport in possession of illicit precious metals — the category of arrest that the South African Police Service exists to make, performed upon two of its own generals at the country's main international airport.

Source: Daily Maverick

The Wire

A Private Secretary to One of Australia's Richest Women Was Charged With 68 Fraud Counts for Allegedly Spending AUD $1.6 Million of Her Employer's Money, Including $1,000 Napkins Embroidered With Her Own Initials

Annalouise Spence allegedly spent AUD $1.6 million of billionaire Judith Neilson's money on, among other things, $1,000 napkins embroidered with her own initials — a purchasing decision that simultaneously required the stolen funds and produced monogrammed physical evidence pointing directly at herself.

Source: The Irish Times

The Wire

Federal Prosecutors Charged 15 Defendants in a $90 Million Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Scheme Targeting Autism and Housing Services. Proceeds Included an Aston Martin, Three Porsches, Three Teslas, and Five Rolex Watches.

Fifteen defendants billed $90 million in phantom autism services and housing supports, then converted the proceeds into an Aston Martin and five Rolex watches — consumer choices that are not, as a statistical matter, typical of social services coordinators, and which are therefore typical of federal investigation triggers.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice

The Wire

A Nashville Man Was Sentenced to 18 Months for Running a Laptop Farm That Let North Korean IT Workers Fraudulently Collect Paychecks From 70 U.S. Companies — Laptops Were Delivered to His Home Address in the Name of a Person He Was Not

Matthew Knoot received laptops addressed to 'Andrew M.' at his registered Nashville address, installed remote software so North Korean workers could operate them from overseas, and collected fees for the arrangement — a scheme that required him to accept, at his home, repeated physical deliveries addressed to a person who did not exist at that address, which U.S. companies and eventually federal investigators were able to verify.

Source: WKRN

LazyTown

A TikTok Influencer With 427,000 Followers Was Arrested for Allegedly Conspiring to Murder a Pop Star After Allegedly Discussing the Plot Publicly on Social Media

The alleged murder plot was discussed on a public account with 427,000 followers, which is a distribution list that includes, as it turned out, both the intended victim's associates and the police — an audience composition that is typical of public social media and atypical of functional conspiracy planning.

Source: Press Democrat

Campus Watch

UNBELIEVABLE! Students CANNOT Answer BASIC Questions!

Source: KeroNgb / YouTube

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