Peter Salt, a student at Carshalton Technical college, who has been making up his science homework for the past two years, has finally been caught out when his homework described an anti-gravity device.
"Generally his homework always made sense," said physics teacher Robert Storer. "He did make some outrageous claims, but whenever I checked, there was always a Wikipedia article that backed him up."
Salt had been accused of copying the Wikipedia articles and passing it off as his homework, a fact he always denied, even going so far as to take a lie detector test that he passed.
"It took quite a long time for us to cotton on," said Storer. "It wasn't just physics, he did the same in his English Lit class, purporting to have read books by authors that nobody had heard of, and yet there they were on Wikipedia, complete with a list of books, one of which Salt would have read."
Sarah Tuck, the English Lit teacher admitted she too was taken for a fool by Salt.
"For free reading, he would be quite detailed in his description of what he had read, but when I tried to find the books on Amazon, I couldn't," said Miss Tuck. "There was one I quite liked the sound of, and I even wrote to Amazon with the ISBN number from Wikipedia, but they still couldn't find it."
The anti-gravity device Salt described in his homework triggered suspicions with Storer.
"I know my physics," said Storer, "and anti-gravity isn't possible. So I contacted Wikipedia and discovered that for two years Salt has been creating the Wikipedia pages to back up his fabricated homework. Ingenious, but not sporting. I really thought Fridge Magnets were being used to sort recycling items."
In a twist to the tale. Professor Kip Thorn has looked at Salt's anti-gravity device, built it, and is now on-route to the moon in a home made space craft.
