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Wine-gulping burglars get 4 months each in jail

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-14 08:45

Two burglars who were arrested after they got drunk and dozed off in the house they broke into in April were each sentenced to four months in prison last week.

In the wee hours of April 7, Zeng and Lai, both in their 20s, broke into a house in Yongjia, Zhejiang province, and were only too happy to find some American dollars and an expensive bottle of red wine.

They pocketed the foreign currency and then sat down to finish the bottle of wine.

At sunrise, a neighbor saw the house door wide open and called the police, who caught the burglars snoring away under a thick quilt.

(www.chinanews.com.cn)