Originally published at: Burglar busted after getting distracted by bedside book - Boing Boing
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Interesting story but I’m a little worried that the main takeaway for some people might be “Stay out of trouble kids, don’t read!”
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OK, this may be the most Italian burglary I’ve ever heard of.
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Happens to the best of us.
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I sure hope I am still picking up complex and thoughtful books in my 70s.
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in the process of burglarizing
(At the risk of getting flagged for off-topic … but it’s been a long time since I played this one…)
So he was burglarizing, eh? Being a burglarizer, I suppose.
But headline says “Burglar busted…” so, just maybe, he was just, sort of, I don’t know … burgling?
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Or: “If you’re burgling a place, go ahead and steal the book too.”
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I was initially impressed that any burglar in the USA would be distracted by literature. Then it made more sense when I learned that this event happened outside the USA. The only publications that might distract an American burglar would either be Guns and Ammo or the latest copy of Juggs.
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See, this is why I could never be a burglar… I’d just get distracted by people’s libraries!
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I’ve never related so much to a burglar before.
I am very well versed in the habit of “Well, I was, doing this, but I saw a book and got distracted.”
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When a burglar’s visit to an Italian apartment turns into a Greek tragedy. Only thing missing was the chorus.
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Or stop to pet – or even feed – their kitty.
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Or the puppers… or birbs or borbs… or skinny pigs… sneks… whatever else!
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One of the things I actually loved about the pandemic, was seeing everyone’s book shelf when they got interviewed on TV!
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Given some of the books we have, the books might be the best haul in the house 
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I’m reminded of a scene from Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber series, where the protagonist has been away from his house for a couple years. He returns to find it’s been repeatedly broken into and everything of value ransacked. And then he walks into his library, and all his books are untouched. “Oh right”, he thinks, “only your friends steal your books”
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Eric, a brother, but definitely a not-friend, only stole one piece of artwork.
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