He stopped reading a book, the Italian burglar was caught

Who did not happen to them that they were purposely going somewhere, but caught their eye on an interesting book, only to realize after several minutes that they were still reading? This is exactly what happened to an Italian man, who was preparing to break into the apartment of a 71-year-old man in Rome. the BBC reported.

The 38-year-old entered the apartment through the balcony. However, he immediately saw a book about Homer’s Iliad. This attracted so much attention that when he woke up, he found himself face to face with the resident who was waking up.

The burglar is said to have told police he had broken in to visit an acquaintance. “I thought I ended up in a boarding house, I saw the book and started reading,” she said.

News of the botched heist reached the book’s author, Giovanni Nucci, who told the Italian media that he wanted to send a copy to the thieves so he could finish the book. The gods of six. The Iliad at aperitif time reading the book.

“The story is surreal, but it’s really human,” Nucci, whose favorite deity is Hermes, the god of thieves, said of the break-in. “Hermes is also the god of literature, so his everything in order,” said the writer.