Hapless burglar puts himself 
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While this man may not have taken himself out of the gene pool, I did think you might enjoy this:
Hapless burglar puts himself behind bars
February 06 2002 at 08:40PM
By Jo-Anne Smetherham
The neighbours and local police will have to live a long time before they will be able to laugh as much or be as entertained by the antics of a criminal.
"Did you ever see anything like it?" asked Amina Rosenberg, the lady of the house in Bellville South, Cape Town, as she pointed to her lounge window on Wednesday. For, between the glass and the security bars, a burglar had been trapped like a fly in a net.
The man's head hung down in embarrassment as an astonished group of neighbours and policemen gathered to stare at him. Only his hand, clothed in a thick glove, was able to reach outward, and it hung from the burglar bars limply.
Rosenberg kept clamping her hand to her mouth in an attempt to hold back her giggles as she told her story.
'I told my husband to call the police'
Around her, neighbours would arrive, stare with mouths agape, start chortling and eventually burst out laughing as they slapped their thighs.
"Burglars broke into our house two weeks ago," she said. "They didn't take much - just a video recorder, my daughter's CDs and some DVDs. I said to my husband: 'They will be back. They know this house now.'
"This morning someone came knocking at our front door. The soft knocking carried on for about 15 minutes. We didn't answer. When I looked through the window, I saw a man trying to get through the burglar bars and I told my husband to call the police.
"Then the burglar got stuck. When I saw him, I just burst out laughing. Honestly I did. This is something special. It's really very, very funny."
Police waited for news reporters to arrive before bending back the bars and escorting the man to a police van. He remained a prisoner behind the bars for an hour-and-a-half, until after the press had arrived.
The burglar's accomplice escaped before the police arrived.
The Rosenbergs have laid a charge of attempted burglary and malicious damage to property
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(The photograph in the newspaper was not available on the website unfortunately) Submitted on 02/07/02
Submitted by:
Anonymous
Reference:
The Star Feb 7, 2002
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