Good Luck

It is something that shouldn't be condoned, but you just can't help having a grudging respect for Paul Hopes. You can almost imagine the 58 year olds progression through life. A decent comprehension of maths. Progression through university. Marry third or fourth girl you got your leg over with. Land half decent job with faceless multi national. Have kids, pay mortgage, die. A pretty mundane lifetime, lived out by millions. But our hero in this tale must have realised he might have been missing out, and didn't want to follow the predetermined path that was set out before him. After spending 23 years in the employment of retail giant Toys R Us, he began to lead a double life, visiting massage parlours. But not content with illicit visits to his local knocking shop, he set up a bogus account, and syphoned off £3.6 million pounds from his employer, and blew it all on the five girls call girls who he visited. One paid of her mortgage, another spent hers on a brand new Bentley. His meetings with these ladies of the night took place in the most luxurious hotels he could find, and for three years lived the high life.

Of course the fact that I am I am relaying this story to you lot, means he was eventually caught. Apparently somebody tipped off the feds, and his whirlwind lifestyle was at an end. I know I shouldn't condone what this fella did, his wife and kids benefited not a penny from his shenanigans, and only found out when the rozzers rang the front door bell, but I can't help smiling at his antics and wishing the guy good luck. He got seven years in the end up, but I still wager he is sporting a grin when he is turned loose.