Parent applies for a place for their son using 3 variations of their christian names (i.e. using each one of the boy's 3 names, and then the other 2 names to follow). Same address, same date of birth. System threw it up as "possibly triplets (no sibling data)" and "possibly fraud".
Spent AGES on the phone to the mum that if the child didn't get in due to distance, the number of applications she made were irrelevant. She didn't get a place, so she put in a formal complaint! (She lived way away from the school)
She also told us she was" planning her appeal" She even used 3 different mobiles to make the application to make it look less suspicious.
I had a parent who didn't get their first choice of secondary school, refused the offer we made (they'd only made one choice), so instead they just bought the uniform of the school they were rejected from, and sent the child there on the 1st September!. When the school rang us to query who on earth this child was, the mum went absolutely ballistic, but at least the Councillor she then contacted gave her short shrift.
BUT...I had a nightmare experience when I worked in social rented housing. I had a tenant come and surrender a tenancy on Friday afternoon. No rent arrears, she'd paid up to the end of the month, said we'd refund her the rest minus a weeks' notice. I then visit the property with a Sitex bar (for those of you not housing officers, it's an anti-theft bar that fits through the letterbox and secures the door). Normally we fit a Sitex door (which covers the whole door) but Friday pm...not a chance, I did try, but they couldn't do it. I got an operative down to disconnect the gas and electrics, I go back to the office to complete the paperwork and go home. Monday morning, I come in, and the manager orders me into her office. She then questions me as to "why I hadn't secured the void property "properly"?" My heart sunk as I thought squatters had moved in there, but no. A gang of kids had broken into the flat and one of them had electrocuted himself trying to reconnect the electrics, and had to be taken to hospital. The parents had contacted a local councillor, who immediately blamed me for "leaving the property wide open" (I had the foresight to take a picture of the locked door). The Estate Manager was completely useless and had only been appointed because she was a member of the ruling party in the borough and a CPF of the Councillor so backed him 100%. I had been neglectful and I "should have tried harder with Sitex". She, of course, was not present on Friday afternoon, so it was not as if she could have talked them round. Every time I tried to turn the conversation to "Why are we defending someone who broke into one of our properties?", she subject was changed.
I had to get the union involved, and they threatened to go to the press about it, before they backed down.