Now THAT’S Security

A 25 year old Polish burglar pulled up to a partially built new house in the city of Gliwice with the intent of robbing it. That's when his luck ran out. It seems that there was a security guard stationed in the house.

Oh, and he had an ax.

The 25-year-old bungling burglar had pulled up outside the house, still not fully built, on Wednesday with a small truck which he intended to fill with stolen goods, a police report said.

But when he entered the house he woke up the security guard who grabbed an ax and chased the would-be burglar, periodically taking swings at his head.

"The young man tried to hide in his truck, but was unable to start it and drive off because the guard had broken it with his ax. That's when the burglar phoned the police," Marek Slomski of the Gliwice police was quoted by the PAP news agency as saying.

Apparently, the guard was using the blunt end of the ax, so the burglar lived.