Not a professor, but during orientation someone mentioned the writing assignment that was due for students in a specific first year program. One guy asked, genuinely, "Hey, do we really have to write that paper or can we have someone write that for us?"
The leader responded, "No...you have to write the paper."
"Ugh, why would I do that? I have the money to just pay some guy. That's what I did in high school, pssh."
He was 100% serious.