It’s the oldest excuse in the book (though we wonder who the original user could have been) but in this student’s case, there may be some legitimacy, the Huffington Post reports. Reddit user kittymonzo [1] posted a YouTube video of her cat viciously mauling [2] what is identified as the owner’s homework assignment on the kitchen counter. Okay, so maybe not viciously, but the feline is certainly going to town on that piece of paper. Which begs the question — why didn’t she just grab the paper away from the kitty? It seems we weren’t the only ones with the thought, as user MotorcycleCK asked the same thing…