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<http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070521/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_girl;_ylt=AgwGqni0LoEkLvDNKhHER3.dk3QF>. And the mother and daughter had made up too."
