If I had a cat biscuit for every time my various computers had crashed over the years, I could feed a lot of cats! I wish I’d thought of this excuse in the picture when I was at university and had to do a 5,000 word essay every five minutes. Don’t know if my lecturers would have bought it though!

The majority of us have given a lame excuse or two cover our backs when we haven’t done the homework/Uni essay/grown-up work that we were supposed to do – here are some amusing ones I found!

1. It was taken by aliens as an example of fine world literature
2. Mysterious looking figures were following me on my way to school/work/uni, I had to destroy it in order to stop it falling into enemy hands.
3. It spontaneously combusted and vaporised.
4. My family is so poor that we could not afford to buy coal for our fire, it was the only thing left that we could use for fuel.
5. The FBI took it as evidence in a major case. I’m sorry but I have been instructed not to divulge any more information than that for your own safety.

But sometimes though, you just can’t beat the classics…

• It was eaten by my dog/cat/hamster/pot-bellied-pig/mum…(delete where appropriate)

Think you have some better ones that you want to share with Buzz Patrol, post them under this article!