A Novel Excuse
I've heard some truly creative excuses for missing homework assignments over the years. I've even used a few back in the day. But this one kicks butt! A girl in Largo, Florida had to tell her teachers that she missed her assignments because a mama raccoon and her entire family crashed through the ceiling and stole her books. Well sort of.
LARGO, Fla. - Stephanie King had to tell her music teacher that a raccoon was to blame for her missing homework. "I explained that the raccoon fell from the ceiling in my bathroom and it ran into my bedroom," the 13-year-old seventh grader at Osceola Middle School told the St. Petersburg Times.
"Animal control came out to get it and they couldn't catch it and they said we couldn't go in my room."
Stephanie's grandmother vouched for her story Friday with school officials. "I told them she can't get her homework, her books, because everything is locked in the bedroom," Natalie King said.
The female raccoon and its babies crashed to the Kings' bathroom floor Wednesday night. Until that moment, the family didn't know the roof was leaking, much less that a family of raccoons was living in their ceiling.
Now the animals are trying to deprive our children of an education!
