When neighbours complained about a bad smell coming from a darkened flat, police in the southwestern German town of Kaiserslautern were prepared to find a dead body.
Instead, they just found a man sleeping with smelly feet and a stinky pile of laundry.
The mistake was made because the scene had all the signs of a tenant who had permanently moved to a 'big flat in the sky' - closed shutters and a letterbox full of uncollected post.
