26 July 2007: Prickly Pair Panics Police

German police rushed through the night to a home in Bremen after an emergency call, saying there were suspicious noises emanating from the garden.

Cautiously searching the garden they soon located the source of the noise: two hedgehogs noisily engaged in what a police spokesman described as "ensuring the continuity of their species."

The officers turned off their spotlights and discretely departed.

No arrests were made.