We've all had that pre-exam panic, but who's actually ever gone so far as sending an email pretending there's a bomb inside the exam building and getting everyone evacuated?
Uh, well that's pretty much what one Harvard University student did, according to the FBI.
And in honour of his extreme, elaborate hoax, we've rounded up a few other contenders:
Most Outrageous Hoaxes To Get Out Of Class
The classic hoax bomb threat(01 of07)
Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh has reopened following a hoax bomb call to the police.Pupils in S1 to S4 were relocated to nearby St Oswald's Hall and Bruntsfield Primary School while S5 and S6 were told to go home and report to the Dominion cinema at noon for a trip. Pupils and staff are now returning to the Viewforth building. (credit:BBC)
The exams have been postponed hoax(02 of07)
An official-looking notice appeared on McMaster University's student e-mail system saying all final exams had been postponed until next month.The notice was an April Fool's hoax dressed up as an official communication from the university.University spokesperson Andrea Farquhar said it appears students were able to see through the hoax, given the timing and the text of the notice, which is riddled with errors. (credit:Thespec.com)
The old bomb hoax strike two(03 of07)
Rizvi College in Bandra, India, received a call from an unknown person, stating that a bomb had been planted inside one of its classrooms. Police later declared the call was a hoax, but suspect it to be the antics of a student who might have wanted to avoid an examination that was scheduled to be held at the time. (credit:DnaIndia.com)
The old hoax letter(04 of07)
A hoax letter, signed by the principal of Prospect Height, Brooklyn, was sent to parents letting them know they could opt their children out of tests.Very sneaky indeed. (credit:Dnainfo.com)
The hoax postpone-an-exam email(05 of07)
An environmental law class at George Washington University took their midterm a week later than planned, after a student’s hoax email postponed the test.The email informed students their exam would be postponed in light of “scheduling conflicts.” It was signed by professor Dan Jacobs, but he later told students that he did not know who was behind it. (credit:blogs.gwhatchet.com)
The snow day school email hoax(06 of07)
Some pupils at JFS school, North London, went to extraordinary lengths to make sure they got a snow day.As snow fell, a hack took down the JFS site - leaving parents unable to check whether the school would remain open in the further snow.After the site went down, students are alleged to have created a fake email, purportedly sent from JFS, informing parents that the school was closed due to heavy snow. The email provided a link to a cloned version of the school's website. (credit:thejc.com)
It didn't get anyone off school but...(07 of07)
...It's brilliant nonetheless.Timothy Dawson, a 9-year-old student at Anon Elementary School in San Francisco, CA., was in the school cafeteria eating with friends when he was taken to the principal’s office and given a week-long suspension. His punishment was consequence for saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to his homeroom teacher earlier that morning. (credit:nationalreport.net)