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September 27, 2025 2 mins
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DEUTSCH:
Stell dir vor, deine Klingel klingelt die ganze Nacht. Das passiert in Schwabach in Bayern, und die Nachbarn können nicht schlafen.Es ist etwa 0:30 Uhr in Schwabach. In einer Wohnung in der Benkendorfer Straße klingelt die Klingel immer wieder. Die Leute denken an einen Streich.Sie rufen die Polizei. Die Polizisten kommen und schauen den Eingang und die Straße an. Niemand ist da.Das Klingeln geht weiter, während die Polizisten die Klingelplatte genau ansehen. Sie sehen einen kleinen, langsamen Besucher: eine Schnecke.Die Schnecke kriecht über die Metallplatte und über die Sensoren. Jede Bewegung berührt einen Kontakt, und die Klingel klingelt.Auf dem Namensschild ist eine glänzende Schleimspur. Die Polizei hebt die Schnecke hoch und setzt sie ins Gras nebenan. Endlich ist die Klingel still.Der Fall endet mit Lachen und Erleichterung, kein Verbrechen, nur ein kleiner Stadtbesucher. Endlich schlafen die Nachbarn, und die Geschichte verbreitet sich schnell über Deutschland hinaus.

ENGLISH:
Imagine your doorbell rings all night. It happened in Schwabach, Bavaria, and neighbors could not sleep. It is about 0:30 am in Schwabach. In an apartment on Benkendorfer Straße, the doorbell keeps ringing. People think of pranksters. They call the police. Officers arrive and are checking the entrance and the street. No one is there. The ringing is still going as the officers study the doorbell panel. They see a small, slow visitor: a slug. The slug is crawling over the metal plate and the sensors. Each move touches a contact, and the bell rings. There was a shiny slime trail on the nameplate, so the police lifted the slug and set it on the nearby grass, and the bell finally fell silent. The case ended with laughs and relief - no crime, just a tiny city visitor. At last, the neighbors slept, and the story quickly spread beyond Germany.



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