Dead Thief Proven Not So Dead After All

Sounds like he should have also been charged with bad /over-acting as well.

Dead Thief Proven Not So Dead After All

BERLIN (AP) - A burglar who feigned death after he was caught stealing a computer in northern Germany displayed a "masterstroke of acting," police said Tuesday.

The 51-year-old sneaked into a company in the town of Hildesheim late Monday and tried to make off with a computer when the owner discovered him and called the police.

The man had fled into the boiler room, where they found him lying on the floor, police said in a statement. He had a pulse, but was not responding to their commands, so they called an ambulance.

Only after a doctor tried to insert a tube into the burglar's trachea to reanimate him, did he suddenly open his eyes and begin speaking.

He was diagnosed with a "masterstroke of acting" and charged with breaking and entering and attempted burglary, police said.