John Pearce maybe one of the world’s dumbest burglar. He was caught dangling upside down when his shoelaces was caught by the window of his victim after smashing it. He was in that position of about an hour as a crowd of 30 neighbours and passers-by gathered to ridicule him before the house owner and police arrived.
Mr Ives, 44, an air conditioning engineer who recently moved into the house, said: ‘The man must be the world’s dumbest thief.
‘He was hanging upside down. His body was inside the house and he was stuck in the window with his foot outside.
‘The more he struggled, the more he got jammed. When I got home, he still had the hammer in his hand which he had used to smash the main window and get some leverage.
‘He was screaming to get him down and we were all saying, “I don’t think so”.
‘He kept saying, “I haven’t done anything. I was stopping the burglars”.’
