Police find slug guilty of tormenting German apartment block
Few things are more annoying than being awoken by a doorbell in the middle of the night, as one apartment block in Bavaria, Germany, can attest.
In recent weeks, inhabitants of the block have been losing sleep and driven up the wall by a mysterious prankster who has been continuously ringing their doorbells. Naturally, their minds wandered to teenage trouble-makers, and they contacted the local police, who launched an investigation.
The police were initially inclined to agree with the residents about the situation. However, they soon changed their mind once they arrived at the apartment complex, and the doorbell continued to ring despite nobody being at the door.
While the motion detector failed to activate due to the lack of humans, they eventually solved the issue and confirmed the culprit to be a mischief-making slug.
One local resident, Lisa, told German publication Bild of the slug saga, “We’d gone to bed … but we don’t tend to answer the door after 10pm, so when the bell rang, I tried to ignore it. I thought it might be the kids from the abandoned house over the road.”
She continued: “But then my sister in law who lives upstairs called, and asked whether our bell was ringing, as hers wouldn’t stop. It kept ringing even as we telephoned and despite the fact no one could be seen at the door. We became really uneasy. That’s when we decided to call the police.”
Once it became clear that the slug was the culprit, everything made sense with Lisa sharing, “You could even see the slime trail it had made as it crawled over the sensors.”
Police in Bavaria have since said that the slug had “been brought down to size, taught about its territory boundaries and placed on a nearby stretch of grass”.