Fraudulent Zebra Stripes?

 So I noticed this story in the AM today....from SWR.

The scene here in the photo looks like a normal village street in Germany.  The zebra stripes there?  It forces the driver to give priority to the people crossing the street. 

The problem?  The stripes just appeared one morning.

Cops got called (later).  They came out and said....yeah, it's fake.

Town officials (Ebenweiler).....called the prosecutor, and there's charges for someone...if they figure out who did it.

Cost to remove the stripes? 1,500 Euro.

How long were the stripes there before someone noticed, and the cops arrived?  Well....thats the funny thing.  No one wants to admit anything about when they first noticed it.  Might have been a week....maybe longer.

The elaborate nature of this?  That's what gets me.  You had to do this at night.....probably after midnight.  The two signs?  Yeah, you had to do some  planning and acquisition to put them into place as well.  All of this....the professional paint job, the signs....had to be at least four guys, and a hour of time.

Probably four German guys from the local pub, who wanted to have some legend story to their lives.