Humor and bureaucracy

A tourist mom from England falls ill in Manhattan and New York Child Services takes her kids away from her. Luckily, the kids knew that a wry sense of the absurd can be the most effective weapon to wield against a hyper-rational bureaucracy:

Too weak to wave goodbye, their mother was forced to leave Gemma and Katie in the custody of social workers who asked them “do you have any homicidal tendencies?” and “which street gangs do you belong to?”. Gemma, a student at Bideford College, replied: “I am a member of Appledore library.”