Boy Fakes Kidnapping to Avoid Bringing Home Report Card

Over the years kids have come up with some creative ways to avoid having their parents find out about their bad grades, but a 11-year-old Alabama boy has been crowned excuse champion. The boy faked his own kidnapping to avoid bringing home a bad report card. He claimed that a man in a red, beat-up car grabbed him after school and forced him into the vehicle. The boy said that he was able to escape but had to leave his book bag, which contained his report card, behind. After some police questioning about the incident he confessed to making up the whole story.

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[RSKennan]

Why is that modded flamebait? It's probably not as funny as I thought, but I was just making a stupid joke about how the kid went to a lot of effort. I wasn't making light of the real kids who get kidnapped.

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[thisnamestoolong]

Agreed -- that whoever modded this down is a jackass. I mean, the joke wasn't that funny, but I can't see how that could be considered flaming by anyone with an IQ greater than that of a muskrat. I have been baffled by some of the moderation on /. lately -- I think some folks just can't handle the responsibility.

Fake?

[slashqwerty]

School just started. Why would the kid have a report card? This story smells of hoax.

Misplaced effort...

[Vetruvet]

If he put that much effort into actually working hard in school, he wouldn't have this problem...