We’re in the wrong business, we need to get into that whole crime thing
They say that crime doesn’t pay, but it seemed to at least pay some money for a while to one cafeteria worker in Georgia, who could have nabbed over $1.3 million in her time working as the lunch lady at North Springs High School.
Her scheme involved setting up a cart that was ‘cash only’ in the lunch room, and didn’t go through the registers like the rest of the food the students were buying. She kept no records (obviously) of the money that changed hands for her à la carte offerings, and police say that she may have been able to pocket as much as $500 a day while running the scheme. As they explain in the news report, that meant she could have taken home an extra $90,000 a year in addition to her regular income.
And what a home it is! Although we would suggest that the fact that she had a five-bedroom 5400 square-foot house and a Mercedes may have made a few people, including the police, a little bit suspicious.
Brenda Watts, who is accused of having illegally gotten her hands on all this money, had been working with the school for 26 years, but retired last June after a TV station aired a report about the possible theft, which again doesn’t look great on her record.
All her dodgy dealings did ketchup with her eventually, after one of her co-workers blew the whistle on her, and she was taken into custody after ten warrants were issued for her arrest.
When asked what attracted her to the job in the first place, she said “let’s just say it moved me…to a bigger house!”*
*not true
Hat-tip to Guyism for the video
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