Not the erotic tub chatters. Photo: DPA

Drunken erotic online chat from bathtub sparks call to police

Published: 16 Sep 09 15:53 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090916-21973.html

A woman in Aachen was compelled to call the police after her drunken female friend slumped into a bathtub while the two were having an erotic chat online, the authorities reported on Wednesday.

The women were speaking using webcams after having met each other on an internet forum.

But during the course of what Aachen police spokesman Paul Kemen described as a "bibulous exchange of sweet nothings," the woman's chat partner in Memmingen, Bavaria seemed to submerge herself in her bathtub. After that she disappeared out of sight and gave no more signs of life.

Fearing for her safety, the young woman in Aachen then sought help from the local police, who contacted their colleagues in Bavaria. Fortunately she was no worse for wear in the dry tub.

"The drunken pearl of love had fallen asleep in the empty bathtub and was fine considering the circumstances," the police said.

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#1
16:06 September 16, 2009 by Steven192
Is the local done with a translation program?

bibulously? Drunken not good enough?

while having the two were having?
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16:14 September 16, 2009 by The Local Germany
All your comments are belong to us.
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16:15 September 16, 2009 by long-haul
Of all the years that i spent in Aachen, now Aachener are maiking it into the news. lol
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16:20 September 16, 2009 by PES
All your comments are belong to us.
Great. We post on TT and everything we post belongs to you clowns?
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16:23 September 16, 2009 by Steven192
I think you may have missed a cultural reference there.

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16:26 September 16, 2009 by Keydeck
When the Toytown moderation team gets really drunk, which normally occurs between 2pm & 6pm on days with a 'Y' in them, they write "news" articles for The Local. As such please cut them a little slack on the dodgy English front. Some of them are dodgy English, some dodgy Americans and Christ only knows what else. The one thing they all have in common is that they are utterly pissed out of their gourds and therefore we should be gentle with them. They can either churn out poorly written dross in the name of news or get back to deleting my awesome posts. Personally I prefer the former so that you all may benefit from the latter.
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16:36 September 16, 2009 by Gen
http://www.presseportal.de/polizeipresse/pm/11559/1476245/polizei_aachen?search=badewanne,paul -- the original police report in German. They say "Liebesperle" there too -- yeah, it's clearly a bot doing the translation. Or a German. And the picture has nothing to do with the article either, but who cares when it's chicks in bikinis, eh?
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17:14 September 16, 2009 by westvan
"The drunken pearl of love". Hee.
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02:20 September 17, 2009 by lynx
straight from the horses mouth here,

Paul what the heck did you actually say? ¦quot;feuchtfröhlichen Austausch -von Frivolitäten¦quot; a common phrase in common circumstances-tipsy and merry-

however in circumstances like women in bathtubs with webcams it leads to an ambiguous interpretation as ¦quot;wet and relaxed ¦quot;

not drunk though

¦quot;Liebesperlen¦quot;in plural is a sweet. When used in the singular noun it´s getting hot

Aachen is strange

when the locals greet one another you watch them extend their pinkie fingers, which were once used to sort needles in a factory

apart from boasting about the cathedral and Charlemagne the town is home to the hottest springs north of the Alps-that explaines a lot.You can call them crazy-jeck-anytime and they will reply with merci pour le complément

as to yesterdays news of- their couples have highest national divorce rate: It´s a hoax.

I hope a certain bloke on reading this will make good on his promise of

providing me with lots of Aachen Printen cookies, yam

@Keydeck what´s the world without humor
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14:17 December 24, 2009 by AdamAndEve
It's refreshing that she was concerned enough about her web cam partner to call the local authorities! Love knows no bounds ;)
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