Fooled You: A slip-and-fall artist slipped one...

Fooled You: A slip-and-fall artist slipped one by Melvin Belli. The famed attorney was in court stoutly arguing the case for a matronly church organist who claimed that she had slipped on spilled sauce and hurt herself in a fast-food restaurant. But when the defendants showed that she had pulled the same stunt before, the woman said she was suddenly feeling the pains of a diabetic attack and fled the courtroom. Belli hasn’t heard from her since.

Foolish: Yvonne Adams of Columbus, Ohio, applied for a job as state highway patrol trooper and thought honesty was the best policy. So in a job interview, the 20-year-old woman, when asked if she had ever committed any indiscretions that could affect her as a trooper, said yes: She and her husband, Raymond, 20, had stolen a 1990 Honda from a dealer in June. After the interview, her husband arrived in the stolen car to meet his wife. Both were arrested and charged with auto theft.

Taking It to the Bank: Whoever said crime doesn’t pay probably didn’t get enough money, said G. Gordon Liddy, who spent 4 1/2 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate break-in. “Obviously crime pays or there would be no crime,” Liddy said at a recent book signing in Ann Arbor, Mich., for his latest spy novel, “The Monkey Handlers.”

Forward to the Past: Brigham Young University students, faculty and staff felt restricted by the Mormon Church-owned school’s dress code, so they appealed to the board of trustees, which last week updated the code--to the 1960s. Now students at the Provo, Utah, school can wear knee-length shorts. Men can wear mustaches but not beards. Women can wear slacks. But men’s earrings? Wait another 30 years.