"Hello. My mother is putting me into forced labour," began Leon, not his real name, during a five-minute call to emergency number 110.
"What do you have to do?" the police officer answering the call asked the boy.
"I have to clean up the terrace. I've got to work the whole day," said Leon.
The boy's mother, who was standing next to him, explained to police that Leon had been threatening to report her for weeks.
"Just now, when he was told to pick up a few bits of paper lying round on the floor, he wanted to ring the police," she said.
"Actually, he plays the whole day long. Whenever you ask him to tidy away his own mess, he reckons it's forced labour. So I thought, just let him try."
Police in the western city of Aachen released an edited transcript of the call before closing the case.
Post published in: Faith