Suspected prankster ringing doorbells late at night was a slug

Sept. 9 (UPI) — Police in Germany were called to an apartment building on a report of someone repeatedly ringing doorbells late at night and discovered the ding-dong-ditch culprit was a slug.

Residents of the building in Schwabach, Bavaria, called police when their doorbells were repeatedly triggered late at night, suspecting local youths to be behind the prank. The residents said they were especially uneasy because whoever was ringing the doorbells was not triggering the motion sensor cameras outside the front door.

Police arrived and discovered the alleged prankster was in fact a slug crawling across a panel, triggering several doorbells in the process.

“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 relocated the slug to a nearby grassy area and released it with a warning.