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The burglar who overslept

KUALA LUMPUR: There was no fairy tale ending for a Malaysian who copied Goldilocks.

The man broke into an empty house in northeastern Malaysia, helped himself to cookies in the kitchen and then went to sleep in a child’s bedroom, where he was discovered when the family returned home after shopping.

The man, who tested positive for drugs, was woken up by police officers, who were summoned by the shocked family on Saturday night. “Because of the drugs, he fell asleep. Unfortunate for him,” a police officer said.

House owner V. Sathya said the intruder was discovered by his nine-year-old son, who ran out screaming — in a scene reminiscent of the ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ fairy tale. “Even then the burglar did not wake up and carried on sleeping while holding on to one of my wife’s purses,” he said. The intruder was arrested for alleged trespassing because the family reported nothing missing except the cookies. — AP

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