Don't do it kid!

This is a great story for the new year. A couple of kids in Germany, aged 5 and 6, decided to go to Africa to get married. Packed their things and set off. Aah... how sweet. The Guardian has more on the story here.

It's a nice heartwarming story, probably one Disney could make into an extremely saccharine Christmas Movie staring Machauly Culkin in his prime. I would suggest to the filmmakers that they have the kids pursued by a couple of bungling slapstick burglars... well I guess they would potentially be bungling slapstick kidnappers in this case. Yeah, ok. Kidnappers. So the 3 kids set off for Africa with the bungling kidnappers in hot pursuit and a cute anthropomorphic talking pet to guide them on their way. In a typical Holywood change to the story we'd have to let our kids get a bit further than Hannover. (and start from New York).

They would probably have to convince the kindly (but slightly dumb) policeman that they meet at the station that  they were actually on their way to Africa to meet their parents and persuade him to help them get there. This isn't that unrealistic.

My little brother, in an episode that still makes my parents sweat when it's mentioned, once escaped the house and took himself to the park. Aged 2 or 3 he was luckily found by a very nice lady as he wandered down the road. She asked him what he was doing and where his mother was. He said he was going to the park (just across the road) and his mum was there. The lady took him to the park to find my mum where my mum did eventually find him.

So, the plot is clearly realistic. Something would need to happen in Africa, probably they'd stop a kindly leader being the victim of a coup our something before their parents eventually catch up with them. Plot sorted. Send me my "Based on a concept by..." millions please Holywood.