John Colton's blog

Leslie and Emily might appreciate this one, because we've been doing a lot of cleaning recently to prepare for selling the house.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070522/od_nm/germany_girl_dc;_ylt=AraOw06qjveHHJG7QDTDM.XMWM0F

Girl calls for police help over messy room

Tue May 22, 12:13 PM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - A nine-year-old German girl was so upset about having to
tidy her room she put up a sign in her window urging passers-by to call police
for help.

Pedestrians in the central city of Braunschweig saw the girl crying in the
window, holding up a sign up saying "Help! Please call the police!" Next to her
sat a small boy. Quickly alerted, officers rushed to the scene to discover the
girl had argued with her mother about tidying her room and enlisted her
two-year-old brother's aid to attract attention.

"The room looked like a battlefield," said a spokesman for local police on
Monday. "Officers told the girl to tidy her room. When they came back two hours
later to check, it was all cleaned up. And the mother and daughter had made up
too."