My father was, grandma worked in meat industry so she had kind of "access" to more meat than ur avg person, and ofc she knew ppl who knew ppl, u had to do stuff this way since most of the shops had empty shelves all the time.
Long story short grade from that professor was last grade needed for my dad to finish his college but for some reason he was suspiciously vague what my dad had to do to pass, so my grandma being streetsmart quickly added 2 to 2 and voila

She basically did this, just with a carrot, not a stick: