Police called to an apartment in Berlin by neighbors who said it sounded like someone was using an electric drill smashed down the door to find a vibrator had switched itself on and was jiggling around on the floor.

Officers who answered the desperate call of the neighbor tried repeatedly to contact the 23-year-old woman whose apartment it was, according to a report in the Berlin Kurier on Saturday.

But they could not get a response, and eventually decided to break in the door in an attempt to find out what was going on in the apartment. “You could hear the noise out on the street,” one neighbor was quoted as saying.

When the officers smashed their way into the apartment they found nothing more dangerous than the vibrator which was doing its best on the floor.

Now the young woman is not only going to have to face her neighbors when she returns home – she will also have to pay for the smashed door, the paper said.