Naive Mother

After the highschool hostage situation in America, which finished with the kidnapper fatally wounding a student prior to shooting himself, a student decided to tell a bit of a porkie to the media:

Another student at the high school, Cassidy Grigg, went on US television channels NBC and ABC to give an account of how the gunman had chosen his hostages and threatened him personally.

However, the boy's mother, Larina Grigg, later announced that her son had lied, Colorado newspaper The Rocky Mountain News reports.

The hell? The gall of this lad. However, his mother defends him:

"Cassidy has never been dishonest in his life but in this matter he wasn't truthful," she said on Thursday afternoon.

"He was not in the room with the kids. He wants to say he's sorry. I know and he knows he made a huge mistake."

Right. Just to clarify, the lad has been honest his whole life but when he does decide to be a tad dishonest (no doubt for an admirable cause such as impressing a girl), he tellls a huge lie not just to his school mates, but to an entire nation via two TV stations. Very impressive for his "first" lie, doncha think?

Suppose I shouldn't be too hard on the little lying bastard. Afterall, I never let the truth get in the way of a good story.