The proprietor of a pizzeria in the Flemish Brabant town of Leuven found a burglar asleep in his restaurant when he opened up on Sunday. The burglar had broken into the pizzeria on the Aarschotsesteenweg on Saturday night but had fallen asleep after finishing off several bottlers of spirits. The 44-year-old claims to remember nothing about how he had come to be in the restaurant.
44-year-old burglar falls asleep on the job after helping himself to several bottles of spirits
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As well as having polished off several bottles of liquor, the man had also started to nose around in the kitchen. He had turned on a deep fat fryer and an oven in the kitchen before falling asleep.
The police took the man in for questioning. He claimed to remember nothing about what had happened. He will appear before the Criminal Court in Leuven in mid-March.