Widows ripping off ACC benefits?

This Herald headline attracted my attention. The image of a hardened cadre of criminal widows reminded me of Monty Python's "Hell's Grannies" sketch. In fact, there was little evidence presented of a massive eruption of twin-set crime, the cases of errant widows in the handful, rather than in masses. And the level of fraud against ACC - perhaps $3 million a year - is, to my mind, low, and suggests that people, on the whole, behave properly when their circumstances change.