It unfortunately missed the cut for this week’s Last Days, but this story is too good to ignore completely.

The gist: For the edification of a high school forensics/criminology class, a Florida teacher took students to a “crime scene” in a Fort Lauderdale park, which the teacher had tricked out with an array of would-be evidence for the kids to gather and catalog.

The twist: The students’ discovery of a real live (by which I mean real dead) corpse, believed to have belonged to a 45-year-old homeless man who happened to die at the artificial crime scene, of apparently natural causes.

Full story here.