German police hunt supermarket 'burglar', finds a hedgehog instead
They said the animal was shut into the store by accident at closing time and had ended up "triggering the alarm while off exploring the place."
Officers who deployed to a supermarket in the town of Mühlheim am Main in the central state of Hesse after a burglar alarm went off in the early hours of the morning did not have to deal with a dangerous criminal but a rather confused animal, police said on Tuesday.
"In the entrance area of the supermarket, the police discovered who had set off the alarm: four-legged, small, round and obviously lacking any criminal energy," they wrote in a statement.
"The suspected 'burglar,' caught in the act, turned out to be a hedgehog that had probably already snuck into the supermarket the day before," they said.
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They said the animal was shut into the store by accident at closing time and had ended up "triggering the alarm while off exploring the place."
The hedgehog was briefly examined and found to be unharmed before being set free to continue its nocturnal wanderings, they said.
