Did injury make ham burglar grimace?

[Beacool]

By PHIL LUCIANO
of the Journal Star
Posted Feb 10, 2009

You've heard of breaking and entering, but how about breaking and eating?

That unique crime has Benny scratching his head. He came home the other night to find that a burglar had broken into his home and taken exactly (1) ham steak. The intruder cooked it and ate it, then left - but only after politely putting his dinnerware in the sink.

"It is bizarre," says Benny, 45.

For more than a decade, he has lived in a two-story house in the 1500 block of Northeast Perry Avenue. Out front, a sign gamely warns, "No trespassing." It worked, because no one ever had messed with his home - until Saturday.

He left that day at 11 a.m. and returned at 9:45 p.m. During that time, someone pulled off one of the weirdest crimes in recent memory. It's not unheard-of for burglars to take a snack break after busting into a home to ply their illicit trade. But risk a lengthy prison stint for a hunk of ham? That's nuts.

When Benny got home, he went to his kitchen and found broken glass on the floor. He then spotted blood on the floor, a wall and the fridge. He called 911.

"The police were here in a minute," he says.

Officers checked out the house and found no one. Then they took Benny through the dwelling to identify stolen items. He could find nothing missing.

http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1098745457/Luciano-Did-injury-make-ham-burglar-grimace

Hey, dude was hungry and the ham steak was begging to be eaten........

:shrug:

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. This is why you should never combine marajuana and expresso.

A dangerous combination of the hunger to dream it and the energy to do it.


Seriously, I wonder if this might be one of those Ambien zombie things.

[Beacool]

2. Who knows?

But definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Some people do the dumbest things.

:7