Burglar breaks into house, ends up drinking rum and passing out on the sofa

History has been filled with accounts of major heists being foiled or being botched up due to poor planning, but what one burglar in Bournemouth, Dorset did was another level of absurdity.

32-year-old Dawid Grzelewski broke into Paul Hatton’s house while he was at work, but while robbing the house, he found a bottle of rum in the house and ended up doing something entirely unexpected.

Hatton rushed home when he received a message alerting him that his burglar alarm had been activated. Little did he know that he will find the thief lying on his sofa in an inebriated state.

Hatton kicked Grzelewski out of his house and called the police, who arrested the burglar from nearby bushes with a bag of amphetamine in his mouth.

Hatton had also clicked pictures of the thief with a hammer and a large screwdriver next to him before calling the police.

Grzelewski was charged with burglary, possession of a class B drug and breaching a suspended sentence. He has been jailed for 60 weeks and will be extradited to Poland after his release.