A burglar broke into a locked house in Thiruvankulam in the early hours of Wednesday, but he aborted his ‘mission’ after realising that he had broken into the house of a retired colonel.
The man started his thieving venture with a steal worth Rs 1,500 and helped himself to the premium military beverage he discovered in the wardrobe, apparently to compensate for the risks involved in breaking into the house, but he left the place only after writing an apologetic message on the wall.
The thief wrote on the victim’s wall “I realised it was the house of an army officer only after seeing the cap. If I had known it earlier, I would never have broken into the house. Officer, please forgive me,” the thief wrote on the wall.
He also left behind another bag, full of documents he stole from an adjacent tyre-shop, along with a note which said: “please give it back to the shop owner.”
According to information sought after by police, the burglar rummaged through the rooms and might have seen the military cap of the colonel which made him realise that it was an army man’s house.
A police officer said, “His remorse was visible in the apologetic messages he wrote on the wall which included the seventh commandment from the Bible that state ‘Thou shalt not steal’,”
The act of burglary only came to everyone’s knowledge when the servant came to clean the house later in the morning.
Police rushed to the spot after getting alerts from police and found that the burglar entered the house by breaking the door using an iron rod, which he procured from the compound of the house.
“The intruder might have tried other shops in the area before entering the Colonel’s house,” Police states
