What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to hide a bad report card from your parents?
Say the dog ate it? Claim it “accidentally” flew out of the school bus window?
How about telling your mom that you were kidnapped after school by a man with a gun, who forced you into a car and drove you to the outskirts of town, but somehow you managed to escape through a car window, but in the ensuing chaos (namely the fact that you were running for your life) you forgot your backpack—-which housed your report card–in the kidnapper’s car.
Ever use that one?
Why not? It’s the story an 11-year-old Alabama boy concocted so he wouldn’t have to show his parents his bad grades.
Unfortunately for the creative kid, the elaborate hoax didn’t pan out exactly the way he had wanted.
According to news reports, the boy, who ran to his grandparents’ house after allegedly escaping (with his band instrument no less) from his gun-toting captor, was forced to fess up about his storytelling once police arrived.
Police say they were a bit suspicious about the “kidnapping” when the boy revealed that he had time to gab his band instrument from his assailant’s car, but not his backpack.
Long story short, the kid finally confessed that he had made up the entire kidnapping tale, and his grandfather called police to apologize.
Police decided not to charge the boy with a crime, but warned him that it would behoove him to tell the truth in the future.
Ah, the innocence of youth.
Clearly, the boy didn’t consider that the school could easily print out another report card, regardless of how the first one was “lost.” What’s more, he could have simply thrown out his report card and spared himself the punishment associated with getting police involved and making headlines around the nation.
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