KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — There was no fairy tale ending for a
Malaysian man who copied Goldilocks. The man broke into an empty
house in northeastern Malaysia, helped himself to cookies in the
kitchen and then went to sleep in a child's bedroom, where he was
discovered when the family returned home after a shopping trip,
police and news reports said Monday. The man, who later tested
positive for drugs, woke up only when roused by police officers, who
were summoned by the shocked family in the northeastern state of
Terengganu late Saturday, state crime investigation chief Mohamad
Hazam Abdul Halim said. "Because of the drugs, he fell asleep.
Unfortunate for him," Mohamad Hazam told The Associated Press. House
owner V. Sathya said the intruder was discovered by his 9-year-old
son who ran out shouting — in a scene reminiscent of the "Goldilocks
and the Three Bears" fairy tale. "Even then the burglar did not wake
up and carried on sleeping while holding on to one of my wife's
purses," he told The Star newspaper. Mohamad Hazam said the intruder
was arrested for alleged trespassing because the family reported
nothing missing except the cookies. "I guess my wife's cookies were
just too irresistible for him ... the rogue ate everything," Sathya
was quoted as saying.
