Credit Card Fraud
I found that the electronic touchscreens are not really suited for the kind of detailed line work that is required when drawing the intestines, so it kind of looks like a big scribbly mess — but then again, so do the intestines.
You would think that a guy painstakingly copying an illustration of the Mud Zone for several minutes, then shooting up to a half-dozen photos of his masterpiece, would draw some attention. The cashier, a young black woman, pretended to be uninterested in what I was doing. I think she was afraid to say anything, or perhaps she was awed by my lifelike depiction of human innards. Either way: unacceptable.
There is a great little experiment by a guy who was testing how much cashiers really do test signatures. It wasn’t until he bought a $4000 HDTV television that they began to take notice. Previously they have missed everything from musical scores to grids, sentences about whales with pictures to pictures of asses. Its a great read you can find here
