Top 10 excuses to ditch work (call in sick) does not include kidnapping.

Germany

A 21-year-old woman didn't feel like going to work at a fast food restaurant so she sent her parents a text message saying she had been kidnapped. Not work, but her parents? Did she think they would call her boss and say "Sorry, but my daughter won't be able to come into work today because she has been kidnapped. They will let her go tonight so she'll be able to make work tomorrow, sorry for the inconvenience.”

Police in the Bavarian town of Straubing said Wednesday they had launched a massive search throughout the region for the woman who "disappeared" on December 23 but than turned up unharmed the following morning, saying the kidnapper had set her free... just like that... because that was the kidnapper's Christmas present to her parents. She should have tied herself up in a big green bow on they're doorstep.

A spokesman for the police said the woman was questioned over the Christmas holiday where she admitted she had made up the story because she owed a co worker 25 euros (appx. $32.90) and did not have the money to pay him/her back. She now faces a fine of up to 1,000 euros. Expensive lesson.

Someone buy this women a book on the Top 10 Excuses To Ditch Work