Cookie monster update

The cookie has been returned.

On Monday, another note appeared at the newspaper offices. Like the first, it was written in letters cut out from magazines. It said that the cookie monster (I refuse to capitalize his name - he's a skinny impostor) planned to return the golden cookie. His reasoning is as follows:

“Because Werni, like me, so loves the cookie, and is now always crying and misses the cookie so much, I'm giving it back.”
Werni is Werner Bahlsen, the CEO of the company and board chair of the International School, who is probably not used to being called Werni in the news media.

The cookie showed up the next morning, lying on a statue of a horse outside of Leibniz University in Hannover, wrapped in a red ribbon.

So now Bahlsen will donate thousands of boxes of cookies to local organizations, and the cookie monster will be a fugitive from the law. The people of Hannover are probably a little disappointed that the drama is over, or at least we think so. I hear the Count might be up to no good in Hamburg.