Crazy show/movie shenanigans

Have you ever heard/experienced something that seemed to be straight out of a show/movie? Like, for example, crazy schemes kids come up with to get out of things from kids' shows?

I remember this one girl that used to rid my bus last year who got out of writing a research essay because she was sick one day (or just ditched) and told her friend to tell the teacher that she got into a car accident. She came to school the next day with those bandages you use for sprains wrapped around her arm, and her teacher actually believed her and let her not do her research paper xD