Hire A Parent Trap to Catch Deadbeats With Football Tickets

This "winner" was all smiles, at first.

Law enforcement officials in Alabama are apparently quite clever. The Lee County Sheriff's Office recently caught a dozen people who allegedly failed to pay child support by "giving away" tickets to the 2011 Alabama-Auburn football game (aka Iron Bowl), then arresting those who came to collect their "prize."

Suspects were told via mail that they had won tickets and that they could claim their prize at a specific location. More than 140 letters were mailed out to suspects who owed at least $30,000 with some owing as much as $75,000.

The sting was as clever as it was cruel. "Winners" entered a room to cheers and celebratory music, received congratulations, were asked which team they root for and even did interviews with the press. Then they were promptly taken into custody and informed that they had been fooled. Once the arrest was made, the happy music was changed to something along the lines of Queen's Another One Bites the Dust. One suspect even asked if he could still get tickets to the game. The answer was "no."

In hindsight it's hard to believe this worked since it's one of the oldest tricks in the book, but you can fool some of the people all of the time.