A college student in Georgia who got an "F" in English made up for that by crafting an "A"-worthy piece of fiction – in which he faked his own kidnapping through a series of texts to his parents. Aftab Islam failed the class for the second time this semester, and decided he couldn't face the music, so he fled his home and set up a tent in the woods a few miles away – sending a message from the supposed abductors saying that he was being held captive and warning them not to contact cops. They did just that, of course, and investigators found that Aftab had purchased the phone used in the scam three days earlier. He has been charged with three felony counts each of false statements, tampering with evidence and terrorist threats – a litany that could result in jail time.

A Kansas woman could be called public enemy "number one" after she was busted for accosting an 11-year old girl and stealing ... her urine! Crystal Hopper allegedly grabbed the child at a gas station and forced her to pee into a cup – because she needed a clean urine sample to use for a drug test. Hopper had failed one test and insisted that the results were wrong, offering to submit another sample. The court agreed, but rather than risk using her own fluids again, the woman went in search of a fresh source. Hopper admitted taking the urine from the girl. She told detectives, “I don’t know why there was morphine in my urine ... so I asked her to pee in a cup, just in case.”