How often, in a university town such as this, have you heard: “Oh, those crazy college kids — what’ll they do next?” How about creating fake parking tickets “to supplement a college income”? Is there no limit to their flawed imagination?

It happened in Madison, Wis., home of the University of Wisconsin. Prosecutors say Anthony Gallagher, 23, garnered hundreds of dollars by putting phony parking tickets on cars near a fraternity house and getting innocent owners to send him their payments. The scam came to light when one victim tried to mail in, to the police, a payment for the ticket but had it returned as non-deliverable.

Officials said the tickets were the exact copy of a parking ticket Gallagher had received, even down to the citation number. He’d used his computer equipment to develop the fake, then set up a post office box to receive payments for the $40 tickets. He wound up with hundreds of dollars. We have no idea how his studies may have benefited from such financial enhancement. If it’s all that profitable, why go to class?

So rack up another way for aberrant minds to prey on public trust and use our modern “marvels” to profit, at least for a while.