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2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

I'm amazed this story still hasn't been submitted by one of the other officers who attended.

In Brighton Victoria in 2006 a cunning burglar felt the lure of a warehouse full plasma tvs was too great to resist. And in the process ended his life of crime in a most painful way. The lone burglar waited until a late Friday night to force his way in via the roof of a large warehouse style shop which sold wholesale electrical goods. Once inside the burglar used some wood fence palings to create a suspect bridge across the roof rafters of the store. He should have been more selective of his wood palings, because during his stealthy crawl to the booty, the wood palings broke, and he fell approximately 10 metres on his hands and knees to the concrete floor below. He didn't die immediately, but had painfully crawled to the back door on broken hands and legs and died of shock and his injuries and was discovered by the staff who came to open the store the next morning.

Submitted on 11/20/2007

Submitted by: c_vontunk5@hotmail.com.au
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Chip said:
Neutral: Personal Account
c_vontunk, thank you for the submission, but I could find no verification for this story and without it, I can't vote for a full Darwin. The best we can hope for is a personal account.


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
I'll vote to keep this as a PA. If you can find any news articles or other references to support it please submit them and we'll gladly vote for a full DA.


James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
I'll make it easy and vote PA myself!


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