A would-be burglar in Rome was caught studying a ebook of Greek mythology throughout a theft, based on Italian media studies.
The 38-year-old reportedly entered an condo within the Prati district of the Italian capital by a balcony however grew to become distracted after choosing up a ebook about Homer’s Iliad on his bedside desk.
The 71-year-old house owner is claimed to have woken as much as discover the thief, who was engrossed in a ebook.
Information of the failed theft caught the eye of the ebook’s creator, who advised native media he wished to ship the person a duplicate so he might “end” the ebook.
The robber was reportedly caught off guard and tried to flee from the identical balcony, however was arrested a short while later.
He reportedly advised police he climbed the constructing to go to somebody he knew.
“I assumed I had checked right into a B&B, noticed this ebook and began studying.”
“It is fantastic,” Giovanni Nucci, creator of “The Gods at Six O’Clock,” which explains the “Iliad” from the gods’ perspective, advised the Courier.
“I wish to discover the man who was caught red-handed and provides him the ebook as a result of he will be arrested midway by. I would like him to complete the ebook.”
“It is a surreal story, but in addition very human.”
The thieves had been reportedly in possession of a bag containing costly clothes that was allegedly stolen from one other home earlier that night time.
Nucci stated his private favourite god was Hermes, the god of thieves.
“He is additionally a god of literature. It is apparent: every thing suits,” he joked.
