Last month, a Belgian teenager claimed she'd gone to a tattoo parlor to get three stars tattooed on her face, fallen asleep during the procedure, and awoken to discover this result instead.
Drifting off while needles are plunged into your cheeks? Uhhhh, yeah. Obviously, she was lying. (And who could blame her? Her dad flipped out when he saw her face, and she panicked.)
We know lying is a part of life. But some lies are bigger than others and, as the tattoo-chair-napper shows, some lies are worse than others. Sparklers, to save you time and effort, here is a list of other excuses parents can see right through: