14 DAY TRIAL // Let's face it, going to work is not exactly the highlight of anybody's day. Not by a long shot. Still, it looks like some of us are somewhat more imaginative than the rest of the mob when it comes to finding excuses to skip a day or two on the job.
For instance, it was just the other day that law enforcement officers in Florida, US, arrested a woman who told a co-worker that she had been kidnapped not because she was really in any kind of trouble, but because she needed some time for herself.
The co-worker had no reason to doubt her, called the cops
Sunday evening, the woman, a 43-year-old night-shift nurse by the name of Beverly Brooks, reported for duty at a local hospital in Panama, as per usual.
At about 2:30 in the morning on Monday, however, one of her co-workers noticed that she was missing. Worried, they called her. Beverly Brooks answered and said that, when out for a break, she had been kidnapped by her boyfriend.
The 43-year-old Panama woman went on to say that she was being held against her will and so couldn't return to work at the hospital, at least not that night.
The boyfriend played along, and while Beverly Brooks was on the phone with her co-worker, started shouting about how there was no way he was going to let her get out of the car, reports the News Herald of Panama City.
Except the plan did a majestic flip in the air and backfired
Thinking Beverly Brooks was in danger, the co-worker called local authorities, who went out looking for her. A few hours later, when they found her at long last, they realized that she had not been kidnapped by her boyfriend.
Rather, the woman herself confessed that she had made up the whole story because she wasn't in the mood to work that night. Together with her boyfriend, Beverly Brooks was taken into custody. They were both charged with false report of commission of a crime.