Monday, August 4, 2008

Couple make burglar clean their home at gunpoint

A Goan couple turned the tables on a burglar they caught ransacking their home by dispensing their own sense of justice.

Without waiting for the law to arrive, the pair doled out their own punishment to the surprised criminal - they made him clean up the house at gunpoint!

The unlucky burglar was caught red-handed when Joseph and Anita D'Silva returned to their house near Margao, Goa, after a week away.

To their dismay they discovered their home had been plundered.
"Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home," Mrs. D'Silva told her local newspaper .

When her husband walked into another room to check what was missing he came face to face with the burglar, who was wearing one of Mr. D'Silva's hats.

"My husband Joseph caught the thief red-handed in our home. And what is even crazier, the man even had my husband's hat sitting right on his head," Mrs. D'Silva said.

Mr. D'Silva held suspect Narendra Sharma at gunpoint and made him sit down until he decided what to do.

"We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor," Mrs. D'Silva said.

When the police arrived the work-shy burglar had the cheek to complain to them - about having to clean up his mess at gunpoint.

"This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house," said Mrs. D'Silva.

But the police officer laughed at Sharma when he complained and told him that anybody else would have shot him dead.

Sharma was arrested on burglary and theft charges and was held in Margao Jail.

Inspector Ramesh Naik said the victims were lucky to be able to catch the suspect in the act and hold him until police arrived. It was an unusual case because usually burglars struck while the homeowner was away and were in and out fast so they could quickly sell the stolen items, Mr. Naik added.

Some lesson this!
:-))

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