Can you imagine doing this? I mean, I'd have someone run me over with their car before I told this lie! Eventually you have to screw up and say something about your son! They should have said that they contracted 'Bird Flu' from work! That is more believable and could write you a month off pass from the factory, with no trouble or questions asked.
Too funny................losers! Also thanks for ruining one of my favorite ABBA songs. I will forever think about the little Jensen boy that died of bird flu when I hear "Waterloo".
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - April 11, 2006 - A couple here were apparently so desperate to get out of work that authorities said they submitted a fake obituary to a newspaper to justify days playing hooky.
James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, participated in the scam by saying Jensen's 17-year-old son had died, police said.
Snyder, Jensen's boyfriend, was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact.
Snyder, claiming he was the boy's father, submitted the obituary to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in December, police said.
Later in the week, people who know the family and the teenager saw him at a downtown restaurant and called authorities.
Snyder and Jensen, who worked at Tyson Foods in Waterloo, started taking time off of work in December saying her son was sick and in a hospital, police said.
They said the plot escalated and Tyson officials were told the teenager was on life support and eventually had died. When company officials asked the couple to verify their absences, Snyder sent the obituary, police said.
