A fire alarm alerted police to a break-in at Paesan's Pizza in Rotterdam, New York about 1AM Friday. They found Timothy J. Cipriani wedged in an air duct with his legs dangling over a fryer in which the oil was still hot!
Cipriani allegedly told police he was trying to crawl inside the pizza parlor when he became trapped in the narrow vent. He was charged with burglary and possession of burglar tools.
Brown said a second person may have been involved, but disappeared before officers arrived.
Cipriani broke into the restaurant by first scaling a nearby tree and traversing the roof, Brown said. Once on the roof, he used a hammer to smash open air ducts.
Police took several photographs at the scene and shared them with reporters.
Police took 30 minutes to free Cipriani, who was taken, still covered in grease, to the Schenectady County jail. Link -via Arbroath
(Image credit: Rotterdam Police Department)
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"Possession of burglar tools"? What's that, a striped shirt and a canvas bag with a big dollar sign on it?
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Is it me, or does this type of thing, in one form or another, seem to happen just about every week? We've seen this story, or similar stories countless times already and they never fail to amuse us.
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