Icelandic policeman takes US twin girls home when their father was taken to hospital
A local policeman took the girls home. Mynd/Úr safni
A policeman in the town of Keflavík, Iceland, took home 11-year-old twin girls last weekend when their father became very ill and was taken to hospital. The girls, from the US, had been travelling with their father in Iceland.
This was first reported by local paper Vikurfréttir.
An ambulance took their father from Keflavik International Airport to the local hospital from where he was transferred to the National University Hospital in Reykjavik. The two girls were left at the Keflavik hospital where staff had no idea what to do with them. They called the police and the police officer went to pick up the children and brought them to the Reykjanesbær police station. He contacted their mother, situated in Las Vegas, the US embassy and child authorities. According to Víkurfréttir the policeman, who wishes to remain nameless, was able to console the girls who were distraught with worry about their father.
When the two girls asked him whether they could go home with him, he said to Víkurfréttir, "What do you tell an eleven-year-old child who asks you that?"
The mother of the girls was contacted and at first wasn't happy at all about the idea of her daughters staying overnight with a stranger But when the policeman sent her a friend request on Facebook and spoke to the embassy she agreed to the idea.
"After that I just called my wife and said that I was bringing two eleven-year-old girls back home from work, as if that was just the normal thing to do," the policeman explains to Vikurfréttir.
At the policeman's home they played with his children and the family ordered pizza. The next day they were taken to the bakery, to visit the Viking village in Keflavík and then enjoyed a barbecue before boarding a flight to Los Angeles where their mother picked them up.
Fortunately, a couple of days later their father had regained his health and was discharged from hospital.
The mother of the twins says that they were scared and worried about their father but that the policeman had ensured that their Iceland experience was an adventure they would never forget.
Reykjanesbær, a quiet little town near Keflavik International Airport, where the twins stayed with the policeman and his family. Photo/mbl.is
