Burglar Managed to Sneak into Balestier Temple But He Was So Tired, He Slept in the Temple for 8 Hours

Over in Japan, falling asleep on the job signifies a hard-working attitude.

Over here in Singapore, falling asleep on the job gets you culled.

And that’s especially so when you’re infiltrating the wrong side of the law.

Burglar Managed to Sneak into Balestier Temple But He Was So Tired, He Slept in the Temple for 8 Hours

According to Lianhe Zaobao, 45-year-old Wang Jun Hua had scaled over the wall of Kuan Im Tng Temple on 18 Jul at 9pm, in an attempt to break into the temple on Balestier Road.

However, it appears that sleep took precedence over his job at hand.

Which is actually a notion common to all of us, save for the exception that his job is a criminal one.

While climbing over the wall, he ended up falling over instead.

And evidently tired out, he decided to rest his aching body in a corner.

But like all quick naps, it soon spiralled out of control.

Wang would eventually wake up in the early hours of the morning, more than seven hours after he first scaled the wall.

But the thief equivalent of Johnny English was not done just yet.

Re-energized and sleep-filled, he proceeded to resume his job with a renewed sense of purpose.

But alas, unlike Johnny English, he wasn’t quite blessed in the luck department.

Roaming around the temple, he forced two donation boxes open using pliers at around 4:55 a.m.

According to the report, they harboured around $100 in cash.

However, three female temple staff members were reportedly already present at that time.

Two of them happened to spot the chill thief while he was out and about, and they subsequently dialled the police.

Panicking, Wang attempted to make a quick getaway via the wall.

But before he could complete the job, the police have already turned up on the other side of the wall.

We speculate it probably looked something like this, just more local:

Sentence

On Tuesday (20 October), the 45-year-old pleaded guilty to three charges, including deceit, housebreaking and burglary.

In his defence, he professed that he was unemployed and has to take care of his elderly parents back in Malaysia.

He ultimately pleaded for leniency.

In the end, the judge sentenced him to 4 months’ jail.

Not The First Instance

Overly-lax criminals may be rare, but they are certainly not non-existent.

Back in 2014, a retired couple from Lancashire returned from their vacation, only to find a thief resting in their bed.

Apparently, the intruder had washed their dishes, cleansed his own underwear and purchased groceries.

He even tidied up their house.

The 28-year-old was eventually slapped with a two-year conditional discharge, and was fined some SGD$355 (200 pounds).

In another incident, an armed criminal had boasted about his plans to raid a supermarket in a Facebook post.

Apart from a selfie and an image of a knife, he also wrote: “Doing. Tesco. Over.”

He was apprehended just fifteen minutes later.

And to cap things off, an Afghan Taliban commander, who was suspected of plotting assaults on US and Afghan troops, had gone to a police checkpoint in 2012 and pointed to his own wanted poster.

He then requested for the finder’s fee.

Unsurprisingly, he did not get it.

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