Woman Calls Police To Report Clean House
POSTED: Friday, August 11, 2006
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Her home wasn't the same when she came home, but police didn't take her seriously.Debbie Phillips was worried someone had broken into her house -- and cleaned it -- when she came home to a very tidy house. She tried to report the crime to police in Charleston, W.Va., but Phillips said the officer just laughed.The president of the Putnam County School Board said everyone from her husband to her neighbors denied cleaning the place.She didn't think anything had been stolen but she wasn't quite sure.Now, the case of the mystery cleaner has been solved. Phillips said her neighbor across the street had hired a cleaning service. They have similar house numbers and nearly the same spot to hide the key. She said the cleaners just came to the wrong address.
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