About 15 years ago I worked for a company that made mail sorting equipment. While our equipment was reliable, some of the temps and contract employees who were involved had to travel to an out-of-state facility with the project engineers to test the machinery for post office officials.

This was during football season, so one of the traveling temps faxed the weekly "confidence points pick-em" for all the traveling employees back to the home office. Unfortunately, he did it using the postal fax machine. He was busted along with the other participants for transmitting gambling material across state lines.

Needless to say, when the company's general manager found out (also a participant), that was the end of the football pool for everyone.

Mike Olijnyk, Chicago, IL,