Bielefeld: Allegedly kidnapped senior woman turns out to be a garden gnome – Panorama

To err is human, as Seneca wrote almost 2000 years ago in his “Epistulae morales”. That is why the police officers who were called to a supermarket parking lot in Bielefeld also took the matter with humor – but from the beginning. Witnesses had alerted the officers and described the following: They saw an elderly woman lying in the trunk of a car in which the driver was stowing his purchases. That he left the car at first seemed even more suspicious to them. When the police finally found the man at his car, he reacted irritably to the request to open the trunk. And for good reason: In addition to various purchases, there was a 50 centimeter garden gnome with gray hair and a red pointed cap.

The police officers assured the witnesses that they had behaved correctly. And it’s true, after all, you can never be sure. This was also shown in April when an emergency call was made in Saarbrücken: A woman believed she could see a dark silhouette in the neighboring apartment that was dangling in the air. Fortunately, the police discovered that it was a decorative wall poster with a woman motif.

This is far more gratifying than the reverse case – as it was back then in Dresden, when a special unit stormed the domicile of a suspicious pimp. Unfortunately, the elite troop made a mistake in the apartment, ended up in that of a colleague and shot his dogs. Therefore, one should read Seneca’s saying “To err is human” in its entirety: “(…) sed in errare perseverare diabolicum” – but to insist on error is diabolical.

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