Burglar Returns to the Scene of the Crime... With the Loot

by jordan | September 2, 2007 at 04:15 pm | 426 views | add comment

OK, this almost never happens.

A burglar broke into a house in Queenstown, New Zealand, twice in a day - the second time to return his loot and leave a heartfelt letter of apology.

The intruder smashed a window to get into Graeme and Shirley Glass' house and took a laptop computer, camera and wallet containing a credit card, the Otago Daily Times reported today.

He came back later to return them as well as a basketball and two pairs of gloves he bought with the card and write a note in Glass's diary apologising for "violating the safety and security of your home".

"I have never written truer words when I say that I wish that I had never done this to you and your family," he wrote.

"From the bottom of my heart I am sorry."

The burglar promised to leave some cash in the Glass's mailbox to pay for the broken window "when I have enough money".

A cat-burglar was once loose in Northern California, and was apprehended during a chase in which he was paralyzed. He became a police consultant as part of a plea deal, and later told my dad a really cool story: Apparently, on one occasion, the burglar broke into a home and went through the mail. He saw that the occupant of the house was going through a very expensive divorce, and piled all of the valuables he had grabbed onto the kitchen table, leaving with them a list of ways to burglar-proof a house.