Maybe because they've been showing Bring it On all weekend, but I can't believe how this story takes "spirit fingers" and makes it pretty tragic. A 33-year-old mom in Wisconsin, Wendy Brown, is facing felony identity theft charges for taking her daughter's ID and enrolling in high school — just so she could be a cheerleader. Her daughter, incidentally, lives with her grandmother.

I suppose it's pretty impressive that she was able to pass for a high-schooler — she even attended cheer practices before school started and went to a pool party at the coach's house. It wasn't until the $130 check for her uniform bounced, and she only attended one day of classes that people began to suspect.

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One official said of her ability to don her alleged daughter's skirt, "It's not all that suspicious if you have someone register from out of state and provide all the necessary documents when enrolling in school. I don't know how long she could have continued to play the game, but she was successful at what she was doing."

Brown has a history of identity theft, according to her mother, but the reason given for the Freaky Friday switcheroo is pretty sad: the charges say Brown hadn't had a happy childhood and was looking to relive a part of her life that she had missed. Given that her daughter is 15, she was definitely heading right back to that time of her life.

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