Police in Germany responding to late-night reports of someone repeatedly ringing doorbells at an apartment building discovered the unlikely culprit: a slug.
Residents in Schwabach, Bavaria, had called authorities after their doorbells kept going off, suspecting local youths were behind the disturbance. They grew particularly uneasy when the motion-sensor cameras at the entrance failed to capture anyone at the door.
When officers arrived, they found the supposed prankster was actually a slug crawling across the doorbell panel, setting off multiple buzzers as it moved.
“There was a slug sitting right on our nameplate. You could even see its slime trail as it crawled across the sensors,” a resident named Dominik told newspaper Bild.
Officers moved the slug to a nearby grassy area and released it with a warning.