It sounds fucked up but I wonder how many times the cop had heard that excuse.
Just being a professor I have heard all kinds of crazy excuses. I had a kid say her aunt was in the hospital with a heart attack and dying and she had to miss the test. I did give her the benefit of the doubt and excused the exam. She tried to get out of the final by having her mom call me because she was violently ill. I told her mom that the syllabus said no make-ups on the final no matter what. The girl, who lived 1hr away, made it to class in 30 minutes and looked perfectly fine. I put 1 + 1 together and called back the mom and chatted, then ended the call asking how the aunt was doing. The aunt never had a heart attack.