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   Burglar plays dead at funeral home   
      
   (Agencies)   
   Updated: 2008-04-03 08:51   
      
      
   MADRID, Spain -- A burglar who broke into a funeral home tried to fool   
   police by playing dead, but two things gave him away. First, he   
   breathed. Plus, he wore grungy clothes rather than the Sunday best of   
   those settling in for eternal rest.   
      
   Police and the Crespo Funeral Home said Wednesday they had no idea what   
   the 23-year-old Spanish man was trying to steal in the March 17 break-in   
   at Burjassot, a small town just outside Valencia.   
      
   Neighbors living nearby alerted police when they heard the front door of   
   the business being forced open in the middle of the night.   
      
   Police officers arrived with the owner, and eventually found the suspect   
   lying on a table in a glassed-in chamber used for viewings of deceased   
   people during wakes, a local police official said from Burjassot.   
      
   "The custom here is for dead people to be dressed in suits, in nice   
   clothes that look presentable. This guy was in everyday clothes that   
   were wrinkled and dirty," the police official said. Department rules   
   barred her from giving her name.   
      
   "He was trying to fake being dead, but he was breathing," the officer said.   
      
   The suspect's name was not released. Police said he had served jail time   
   in the past for robbery.   
      
   The funeral home said it was mystified about what the man could have   
   been after, because there were no valuables or cash inside the funeral   
   parlor.   
      
      
   http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-04/03/content_6588855.htm   
      
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