http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120627-43381.html
The
Local [Germany]
27
June 2012
A
concerned resident called Bochum
police at 11 pm on Sunday, worried that someone was trying to get into the
house with a drill. The noise was so loud, Die Welt newspaper reported on
Monday, that the tiles in his flat were vibrating.
He
joined the officers in scouring the house to track down the mysterious noise,
which grew ever louder the further down the building they were.
Eventually
they ended up in the building's communal cellar, expecting to find a determined
burglar armed with an electric drill.
But
on entering there was nothing to be seen apart from a lone vibrator that had
fallen off a shelf, turned itself on and rolled up against pipes. [...]
[An
earlier "electric drill" version:]
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110423-34585.html
The
Local [Germany]
23
April 2011
Police
called to a flat in Berlin
by neighbours who said it sounded like someone was using an electric drill
through the night smashed down the door to find a vibrator had switched itself
on and was jiggling around on the floor.
Officers
who answered the desperate call of the neighbour tried repeatedly to contact
the 23-year-old woman whose flat it was, according to a report in the Berlin
Kurier on Saturday.
But
they could not get a response, and eventually decided to break in the door in
an attempt to find out what was going on in the flat.
"You
could hear the noise out on the street," one neighbour was quoted as saying.
When
the officers smashed their way into the flat they found nothing more dangerous
than the vibrator which was doing its best on the floor.
Now
the young woman is not only going to have to face her neighbours when she
returns home she will also have to pay for the smashed door, the paper said.
