WOMAN FAKES KIDNAPPING TO SKIP WORK

Police in Panama City, Florida have arrested a woman on charges she lied about being kidnapped so she would not have to return to her job as a nightshift nurse assistant. Police and five different law enforcement agencies spent several hours looking for 43-year-old Beverly F. Brooks after a concerned co-worker noticed at about 2:30 a.m. Monday she had not returned from a work break. The co-worker called Brooks to see if she needed a ride back to work, and Brooks said her boyfriend was holding her against her will and preventing her from returning. The boyfriend could be heard in the background, telling the female she was “not getting out of the car.” Brooks and her boyfriend, 35-year-old James Vincent Hill Fennell Jr., were both found. Brooks was not in distress and admitted she simply did not want to go back to work and made up the incident. Both were later charged with misdemeanor false report of commission of a crime and booked into the Bay County Jail.
* Well, she’s being held against her will now, so she got her wish.
* And she won’t be going back to work, so she got what she wanted there, too.
* I’m not sure this is the type of judgement we want our healthcare workers to have.
* Nightshift Nurse Assistant … it even sounds like a horror movie.
* I could it see the movie now: “Nightmare on the Nightshift.”
* Should we repeat one more time: Nobody has ever successfully pulled off the fake kidnap story.
* However if you do try it, at least wait for a better reason than skipping a shift at work.