When you were a kid, did you hate to go back to school once your Christmas holidays were over? If you answered yes to that question, you probably remember a lot of things you might have tried to get out of it. But one kid near Monterrey, Mexico took his fear of returning to class too far.

The 10-year-old was so frightened of having to go back to the old routine that he glued his hand to his bed. Diego Palacios crept down to his mother's kitchen in the wee hours of the morning, grabbed a bottle of the industrial strength sticky material, went back up to his bedroom and smeared it all over his hand.

Hours later, when he hadn't gotten up for breakfast or shown any signs he was getting ready for school, his mother went upstairs to discover the kid lying in bed watching TV - with his hand stubbornly attached to the frame.

A stunned Sandra Palacios tried everything to detach her recalcitrant son from his precarious post - water, oil, even nail polish remover. She finally had to call in the authorities for help. "I don't know why he did it," she told a local newspaper. "He's a good boy, but mischievous like all kids."

Her son has a different explanation for his actions. "I didn't want to go to school because vacation was so much fun," he responds.

Still, the best laid plans of mice and little boys often goes awry and it did in this case. Paramedics managed to free the reluctant student, whose hand was unharmed - and he made it to class in time.