MyExcusedAbsence.com
Museum of Hoaxes has a post today about
MyExcusedAbsence.com, a site where you can buy fake doctor notes for the all low price of $24.95.
I assumed that it would be illegal to actually provide people with fake doctor notes, but here's a site that's doing exactly that: myexcusedabsence.com. The site claims that, for only $24.95, it will provide you with a fake excuse saying that you've been at a doctor or a dentist's appointment, been to the emergency room, had jury duty, or been at a funeral. (I wonder who the note comes from in the case of a funeral? From the funeral director?) It looks like what you get for this money is a Word template formatted to look like an official note. For that amount of money, I think it would be a lot easier simply to create your own fake note in Word.
And don't think that people haven't tried using these notes. This lady from Newark tried using one
to get out of traffic court.
NEWARK, N.J. - Nina Weems' first mistake was speeding.
Her second mistake was blowing off traffic court.
Her biggest mistake was thinking the Internet could solve her first two problems.
Earlier this month Weems, who lives in Newark, began a campaign apparently designed to persuade Hanover Township Municipal Court she was too disabled to show up for court, or for that matter, get behind the wheel again anytime soon. Could the court drop the whole matter, she asked.
Weems sent the court a doctor's note to support her case, a township official said. The problem was, the note was not written by the chiropractor whose name was on the letterhead. It was instead courtesy of myexcusedabsence.com, an Internet site advertising "absence notes for every occasion."
Weems paid $24.95 for the note, court officials said, and joined the ranks of scofflaw techies using the information highway to augment the age-old practice of forging excuses.
