My mom always told me you can’t teach stupid, and this week at the University of Kentucky, a perfect example of when to use that phrase came into play.
Two students at the University of Kentucky were facing daunting task in their statistics exam. Unfortunately for them, they are now facing a daunting task in the form of legal matters
The students decided that rather than study, they were going to tempt fate and climb through ceiling ducts to their professor’s office to steal a copy of their statistics exam. When one made it through the maze of ducts and was stationed right above the office, he dropped right into a bleak future.
The student lowered himself right through the ceiling and found himself right in front of a recently occupied and still being used office. Turns out they were trying to break into the teacher’s office while the teacher was about to walk in, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.
University police told reporters that stats professor John Cain was working in his third floor office in the school’s Multidisciplinary Science Building when he left to get something to eat. At about 1:30 AM local time, he returned to an unlocked door and found himself having trouble getting in because something was blocking the door.
“He yelled out that he was calling the police and then the door swung open and two young men ran down the hallway,” UK spokesman Jay Blanton said.
The police did come and after they got to the scene of the crime, Henry Lynch II, one of the students involved, returned and confessed to the whole thing. The 21-year-old said he climbed through the air ducts, dropped into the room, and let in his friend, who wasn’t in the class.
Surprisingly, the junior told the police he attempted to steal the test earlier around 6 PM, but couldn’t find it. That 6 PM occurrence was actually the second time he tried to steal a test. Lynch came clean about an instance earlier in the semester when he stole a test from Cain’s office.
The two students have been cited by University of Kentucky police with third degree burglary.
“The Office of Student Conduct takes this matter very seriously and it will be reviewed extensively to make a determination and we will act accordingly,” Blanton said.
The school’s Office of Student Conduct is also looking into the case with a formal investigation. Once again, all of this happened because the students were presumably too lazy to study. You really can’t teach stupid.
