What would you do to get paid time off from work? If publishing an obituary for your living mother was what you were thinking, then you and 45-year-old Scott Bennett have something in common.  That's right, apparently getting paid bereavement time off from work was so important to Bennett that he wrote up a fake obituary for his no-so-dead mother.

Unfortunately for Bennett, relatives saw the obituary in the paper and reported the falsehood.  Bennett has since been charged with disorderly conduct.

File that under teaching momma to play dead.