superglue - now with new purpose

ABC News report today that a boy in Mexico glued himself to his bed to avoid going to school.

A 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed to avoid going back to school after the Christmas break, authorities said.

"I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school," the boy, Diego, said. "I didn't want to go, the holidays were so much fun."

"I remembered my mom had bought a very strong glue," he said of the industrial strength shoe glue he used to stick his hand to the bed's metal headboard, where he stayed stuck for two hours.

His mother Sandra Palacios was unable to free him and called paramedics and police to help.

Diego watched cartoons while they worked to unglue him, eventually using a spray to dissolve the chemical adhesive.

"I don't know why this happened. He is a very good boy," said his mother.

Diego eventually made it to school a few hours late.

Clever boy really, I would never have though of using superglue for that. My ways of avoiding school were more like this