The simulator company says they’ve never seen this error. But they asked me one question: “Did the driver before you report a woman boarding at Marienplatz at midnight, paying with a wet, perforated ticket?”

The Ghost in the Sequence From: dispatcher@mvgo-munich.de To: driver.krause@citybus.sim Serial Number: Za-404-2026-04-15 EMAIL BODY:

The kicker? There is no route 404 in Munich. Not in the simulator’s database. Not in real life.

I ran the telemetry. The bus moved 0.4 km during those 47 seconds. GPS says it travelled from the depot service road… to the old tram graveyard at St. Veit . The doors opened again there. And the serial number you see in the subject line? That’s not ours. Our fleet prefix is , not Za.

Your assigned has been flagged by the central log. At exactly 03:14:07 this morning, your bus logged a "door open" event at Hauptbahnhof Nord – but no driver was scheduled on that vehicle until 05:00.

So, Krause… please tell me you took the night off.