[burnished]

You're probably focusing on the wrong thing if you're jumping to the defense of people who leave things on the plate for any reason.

The actual controversy here is that the folks in the story clearly thought they were cheating the system, and people are responding without questioning that, and some people are questioning that.

[_jcyi]

That's certainly a possibility, but none of us have enough information to say for sure.

[Dylan16807]

The sins thing is about as clear as you can get.

Unless you're going to call the entire story fake, then yes we have enough information.