Cookie-Eating Thief Caught Napping In Scene Out Of ‘Goldilocks And The Three Bears’
Posted February 4, 2008 12:00 pm.
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Call it Goldilocks and the man who was someone you wouldn’t want to bear.
A suspected thief has been captured in the northeastern Malaysian city of Terengganu after the owners of a home caught him with his hands in the cookie jar. Literally.
The residents returned from a shopping trip Saturday night to find a man lying sound asleep in a nine-year-old boy’s bed, which he apparently found to be ‘just right.’ This guy was dead to the world and cops think he was on drugs. So when the child raised the alarm, he just kept snoring right through it.
“Even then the burglar did not wake up and carried on sleeping while holding on to one of my wife’s purses,” homeowner V. Sathya told a local newspaper.
Cops were called and found evidence of the man’s activities everywhere. There was nothing actually missing from the house except for one small item – a plate filled with cookies that the family had prepared for the upcoming Chinese New Year’s celebrations.
Cops believe the sleeping suspect sampled one, then ate them all before retiring for the night upstairs. “Because of the drugs, he fell asleep. Unfortunate for him,” muses police spokesman Mohamad Hazam.
The startled residents are grateful the suspect didn’t get away with anything else. “I guess my wife’s cookies were just too irresistible for him,” Sathya shrugs. “The rogue ate everything.”
Next on the menu: bread and water.
