World Scene: Australia

Burglar caught napping

An exhausted Australian man fell asleep while apparently trying to pick the lock of a shopping center after a "long night", police said yesterday.

The 35-year-old man was found snoozing outside a Perth shopping complex early on Sunday with a lock-breaking wire still in his hand, police spokesman Samuel Dinnison said. "It appears he fell asleep on the ground with the wire still in his hands and also in the door," said Dinnison.