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Man Says Someone Broke Into His Home, Cleaned His Bathrooms And Bedrooms
By Hope Schrieber
A Massachusetts father was shak- en when he returned home from work and saw that a door he typically leaves open was closed shut. Inside his house, he smelled chem- icals and knew someone had broken in.
Except he learned the stranger who entered his house without permis- sion didn't steal anything, but instead cleaned it.
Nate Roman
told CBS
News that the May 15 incident initially made him panic.
"I went into pro- tective parent mode when I saw that my son's
room had been cleaned and called the police,” he said.
"It's possible that I forgot to lock the back door, they didn't break any- thing while enter- ing," Roman explained on
a Facebook post . "I usually forget to arm my alarm during the day, but unfortunately that also hap- pened, so I don't have any video,
despite having cameras."
"Ready for the weird part? Not only did they not take anything (that I can find), but the purpose of the visit was to clean my bath- rooms and bed- rooms. They made the beds, vacuumed the rugs, scrubbed the toilets and left [toilet paper] roses," he wrote.
Roman, 44, inspected the house and found that every room had been cleaned, except his kitchen. Even his five-year-old son's bedroom, which had been left messy, was now immaculate, complete with his stuffed animals being neatly arranged.
The pièce de résistance, how- ever, was the
carefully folded toilet paper in the shape of a rose.
"I'm pretty sure, based on the quality of the toi- let paper flowers, that this was a professional that made a mistake," he told CBS News. "But there's no way to really know."
Police confirmed to CBS
Boston that Roman called
them on May 16 to report a break- ing and entering. Even after speak- ing with neigh- bors, who claim they saw nothing suspicious, there are no suspects.
Roman’s Facebook post left many social media users won- dering how they could get a benevolent per- son to clean their houses.
"I wish someone would make that mistake in my house," one per- son
shared. Others chimed in that they would leave their door unlocked in the future.
"I wish someone would come clean," said Roman. "Pun absolutely intend- ed."
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