Let’s be real—we’ve all used some sort of excuse when we couldn’t turn in an assignment on time. There’s the classic “my dog ate my homework” excuse, “my internet wasn’t working,” “I was sick,” and of course, “I was kidnapped by three men who tied me up for 24 hours.”
Brazilian college student Susan Paola Fadel Correia, 22, told police she was abducted by three men and tied up for 24 hours last week. She said she escaped and borrowed a passerby’s phone to call her mother, and then two of her friends living nearby helped her home.
The reality? She spent the day at a friend’s house because she hadn’t turned in a year-end project. Fadel confessed that she made up the story Wednesday.
“She did not want to upset her mother yet again as the same thing happened last term,” Para police officer Gilvando Furtado said in a Daily Mail article.
Fadel was charged with false reporting of a crime and could end up in prison for one to six months. Her friend whose house she stayed at and her two friends who helped her home have not been charged, but police are still investigating the situation.
Maybe a simple “I thought it was due next week” would work better next time?