Police officers of the year

What does a person have to do to earn this glamorous title? Well, it depends. A good arrest might do the trick. However, sometimes an arrest is not really necessary, as it turned out the other day.

We have a peculiar couple living next door. I won't go into a complete analysis now, but let me just say that they are hysterically panicky. Their biggest fear is that somebody will break in through the balcony while they are asleep. So, whenever the lights in the back yard turn on (we have lights in the back yard that have movement-sensors, so they turn on whenever somethig moves in the garden), they jump around like mad and don't go back to bed again until morning.

The other night we were up late so we noticed the lights turning on in the garden. Next, we heard wild movement next door. We wanted to know who was outside, so we went to the balcony and ... There they were! Not only one, but two of them, marching accross the lawn! We started laughing. My two hedgehogs (MacGyver and Pete) were running accross the lawn as they do every evening between 10 and 11 pm. Their movements turned on the lights and gave the neighbours a good fright! That sure makes Macky and Pety the police officers of the year in my book!