Cheating is one thing…but being bad at it too?

Had 3 students (physics) who were all sitting next to each other turn in nearly identical quizzes. I know it’s cheating because they didn’t have the same CORRECT answers, they all had the same exact bizarre wrong answers, like not even an honest common mistake, just straight out of left field. And on top of that, the work they had written down was styled identically down to the placement on the page and like drawing the same random little marks and arrows and crossing out the same things and everything.

Like if you’re going to pull off a genuine cheating heist and jump through hoops to pull it off and cover your tracks that’s one thing and I can at least respect the hustle. But lazy cheating? Come onnnnnnnn