Top twenty technological excuses for not handing in homework

Many parents will remember the creative excuses they came up with during their school days for failing to hand in their homework.

These days, the more technologically savvy children have a whole new scope for creative fibbing, with the average British teacher having to put up with around 20 different attempts each week.

From their research, online back-up service Mozy, have put together their top twenty most common excuses:

1.        I emailed it to you, but I got a bounce-back email
2.        I finished my homework but then I deleted it by accident
3.        The dog ate it
4.        My computer crashed and I lost it
5.        My printer broke
6.        I finished my homework but was unable to save it
7.        My printer ran out of ink
8.        My internet was down so I could not do any research/email homework
9.        I spilt my drink on the computer and it broke
10.     My house was burgled and my computer was nicked
11.     I couldn’t connect my laptop to a printer
12.     My computer was hacked and a virus destroyed my hard-drive
13.     Windows Vista crashed my laptop and deleted the programme
14.     Spilt my dinner over it
15.     I lost my laptop
16.     Accidently stuck it in the washing machine
17.     It fell out of my bag as I walked to school
18.     The letters on my keyboard have worn out so couldn’t type
19.     Blew out of my hand
20.     I put it on top of the TV and the TV blew up
 
The most bizarre excuses: 

My goldfish ate it
My pet horse ate it
My keyboard got snapped in half
A lion took it
I left it in the sun too long and the ink faded
The dog spilt cake on it
It accidently got put on the bonfire
I put it in the fridge so that I would remember it when I got the milk out for my cereal but I had toast that morning
I was in a car crash
I was walking through the park and a bee stung me so I ran to save myself and dropped my homework
The police took it
I dropped it in the river and it got caught by the current