Police arrest snoring burglar

Police arrest snoring burglar

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A Malaysian burglar, exhausted after breaking into an office on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, fell asleep on the job ... and snored his way into police lock-up, reports has said.

The 22-year-old professional locksmith was exhausted after cutting through iron grilles to enter the office block in the suburb of Petaling Jaya and fell asleep by a safe, police said.

"Unfortunately, he overslept, and an employee found him snoring away beside a safe," district deputy police chief Reduan Aslie was quoted saying by the Sunday Times.

The worker called police immediately and the slumbering thief was caught.