If you have a phobia, then you are probably all too familiar with the extreme panic that a sudden, unexpected confrontation with the object of your fear can induce. Yahoo News reported on a German man who had just such an experience.

Apparently the 23 year old was watching a movie when he spotted a mouse on the floor. Wearing only his boxer shorts and a pair of slippers, the man ran for the hills, out onto the snow-covered streets. After discovering him in a phone booth, police searched the house but were unable to find the furry intruder. The man elected to go to a relative’s house rather than return home.