A jogger sparked a bomb scare after coming across what she thought was a hand grenade but later turned out to be a sex toy.
The startled woman came across the suspect item while out in a forest near Passau, a German city on the Austrian border.
Police said the bizarre incident took place on Monday in Sonnen in the district of Passau in Bavaria.
According to Bild the jogger came across a transparent bag containing various objects, one of which resembled a grenade.
Officers said that a demolition squad for the “disposal of dangerous explosives” came to investigate a report of the finding.
But experts were able to quickly give the all-clear as instead of any potential explosives they went on to find condoms, lubricant and a dummy grenade made of rubber in the bag.
“The search on the internet then confirmed the suspicion" police were reported to have said. "There are actually sex toys in the form of hand grenades. And that's what it was about here.
"Probably someone just wanted to dispose of the things and not thrown them in the trash," said a police spokesman.
Germany has its own specialised unit for defusing bombs called the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service, which is considered to be among the busiest in the world, reportedly deactivating a bomb every fortnight.
Thousands of unexploded ordnance from the Second World War are still discovered every year in Germany, with the concentration particularly high in Berlin where many artillery shells and smaller munitions from the Battle of Berlin are said to be found each year.
