The next time a Nova Scotia employee finds himself in the pits, he shouldn't count on his boss to dig him out. As an apparent excuse for ditching work, a Lower Sackville man sent his boss a text message saying he had fallen into a hole, The Chronicle Herald reported last Thursday. While the man enjoyed his day off, his worried boss called 911, prompting a ground search of an old military radar base and cement plant in the area. When that hunt came up empty, firefighters and RCMP officers traced the cell number to an apartment where the man was found and appeared to be under the influence of some kind of substance, police said. Needless to say, the search crews weren't too pleased. "It was an extensive, costly use of manpower to go out there and attempt to locate an individual who wasn't even there," said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Joe Taplin. Rule No. 1 in the playing hooky handbook: Just call in sick. Pretty simple.

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