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BERLIN: 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 rowed 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."
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 rowed 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."
I had to laugh at this article. Especially on how the police told the girl to pick up. And then I got to remembering the ways I tried getting out of cleaning my own room as a child. Nothing so drastic as this tyke, but I'm sure I gave my mom a few new gray hairs over it. A few times I did the classic of throwing all toys and clothes into my closet until it towered over me, trying valiantly to shove the door shut, only to have everything cascade down when my mom opened the door.The most original I ever did, I threw a bunch of stuff into my upright piano. I never did that again.
So how'd you try getting out of cleaning your room as a kid? For those of you with kids, whats the funniest excuse or half *** job they did?
