{"id":8455,"date":"2021-07-29T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T07:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesmartlocal.com\/vietnam\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T02:22:10","slug":"burglar-soothe-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmartlocal.com\/vietnam\/burglar-soothe-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Burglar Breaks Into House, Sneaks In Owner’s Bed To Soothe Her Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burglar sneaks into owner\u2019s bed to soothe baby<\/h2>\n
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What can we say – petty crimes in Vietnam seem to be getting more ludicrous of late. Just earlier this week, we reported on a burglar who, went caught robbing a house, pretended to be its owner<\/a> in an attempt to escape arrest.<\/p>\n

Now, another seems to have said, \u201chold my lockpick\u201d, and taken it up another notch. He actually snuck all the way into the house owner\u2019s bed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The strangest part is, he actually managed to pull off one successful burglary with this gimmick before he got caught. Here\u2019s how it happened.<\/p>\n

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The baby heard the burglar and started crying, so he climbed into the bed to soothe it<\/h3>\n
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\nImage adapted from Vietnamnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

As Vietnamnet<\/a> reported on Tuesday, in the early hours of 4th July, 20-year-old L\u00ea V\u0103n M\u1ed9c snuck into a woman\u2019s house in Cai L\u1eady Town \u2013 Ti\u1ec1n Giang Province to steal.<\/p>\n

The homeowner\u2019s baby heard him and started crying. Fearing the baby\u2019s cries would alert the homeowner of his presence, M\u1ed9c climbed into the bed and soothed it. All the while, the mother was still sound asleep next to them, completely oblivious to what was happening.<\/p>\n

After he put the baby back to sleep, the burglar took a mobile phone. He was about to make his escape when the homeowner woke up and screamed, leading to his arrest.<\/p>\n

If the absurdity of the case amazes you, wait for it, there\u2019s more to the story.<\/p>\n

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The burglar had also snuck into another man\u2019s bed before<\/h3>\n
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\nThe burglar at the police station<\/em>
\nImage credit: C\u00f4ng An Nh\u00e2n D\u00e2n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

After M\u1ed9c was captured, another local man also recognized that the burglar was the same one who had snuck into his<\/em> bed a day prior.<\/p>\n

According to this second victim, he had fallen asleep and forgotten to lock his door. When he woke up late into the night, he spotted M\u1ed9c lying next to him.<\/p>\n

When questioned, the burglar lied, saying that he was drunk and got into the wrong house, thinking it was his. The homeowner believed M\u1ed9c and let him go, only discovering later that his two phones had been stolen.<\/p>\n

At the police station, M\u1ed9c admitted that he was stealing the phones when he noticed that the homeowner was about to wake up, so he tried the ruse on the fly.<\/p>\n

It would seem that he got lucky and it worked once, but to count on it to happen a second time was asking for too much.<\/p>\n

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Hopefully, the lawbreaker can repent<\/h3>\n
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Time and time again, stories of lawbreakers trying, and failing, to outsmart the law have proven that no matter how clever these people think they are, they all have to face justice in the end.<\/p>\n

Sure, they might get lucky and get away with their crimes once, even twice, but eventually, dishonest works are just not going to last.<\/p>\n

At least this time, this burglar gave us an absurd and, quite frankly, comical story. But one is enough, and let\u2019s hope he can repent from now on.<\/p>\n

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