Man convicted of 'slug assault'

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 16 (UPI) -- A man in western Sweden who dumped a bag of "killer" slugs in a neighbor woman's garden has been found guilty of "adult bullying," authorities say.

The 59-year-old man denied in Alingsas district court he had behaved badly towards the woman, but witnesses contradicted his testimony, saying they had often seen the man hanging around the neighbor's house, the Swedish News Agency TT reported Sunday.

The neighbor whose garden was infested with the uninvited destructive Spanish slugs had previously taken out a restraining order, the newspaper Alingsas Tidning said. The man allegedly had thrown a firecracker into her yard, TT reported.

The man was ordered to pay almost $2,000 in fines and damages.