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Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/doorbell-prankster-that-tormented-residents-of-german-apartments-turns-out-to-be-a-slug
79•robin_reala•3d ago

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egiboy•2d ago
Does it talk?
hulitu•2d ago
No. It is pushing up the daisies, singing to the choir invisible.
pdonis•9m ago
He's probably pining for the fjords...
marcosdumay•5m ago
Only in Morse code.
andy99•1h ago

  "I thought it might be the kids from the abandoned house over the road,” Lisa, 30, a shop sales assistant told the tabloid Bild.
More concerning that there's an apparent house of feral children across the road.
alex1138•1h ago
How dare it? It should be promptly arrested, pour decourager les autres
koolba•1h ago
> At first they had suspected the so-called klingelstreich (bell prank), a sometimes popular pastime among German youths.

Does German sound funny to everybody or just the English speaking world?

coldtea•32m ago
It mostly sounds authoritative, unemotional, and sadistic.
jaredhallen•1h ago
Slugs aren't known for quick getaways. Did no one check the doorbell before calling the police?
gus_massa•43m ago
They move a few inches per minute, so it's easy to ignore the irrelevant slug that is nearby but not over the button.
phyzome•52m ago
...at a certain point I think you just have to assume that the doorbell is malfunctioning, no?

We've had that happen. It was annoying as hell. We didn't call the police, though. (Pretty funny that it was a slug and not a dying piece of electronics, I must say.)

wewewedxfgdf•42m ago
Happens around here a lot.

Teenage slugs causing havoc on a Saturday night after drinking beer in the park.

coldtea•31m ago
Sounds like a broken doorbell button design.

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