(KTLA5) – A police officer in Marion, Ohio, went beyond the call of duty when an elementary school student reached out to the department via Facebook messenger with a request of the sort it had never received before.
Ten-year-old Lena Draper didn’t know how to go about answering this question: (8+29) x 15.
So, she turned to Marion PD for answers to her computational conundrum.
“I’m having trouble with my homework. Could you help me?” she asked.
A fearless Lt. B.J. Gruber, 42, didn’t back down from the task — despite being several decades removed from 5th-grade math class.
He replied back, telling the girl to “do the numbers in the parenthesis first.”
Gruber, speaking to CNN on Tuesday, said the girl’s request “really didn’t strike me as that incredibly odd.”
He added though that it was the first time the department had ever received a homework question on their Messenger account.
Seeing as the police were up to their task to protect, serve and calculate, Lena didn’t stop with just one math problem.
