Work Till You Drop

A fifty-year-old house robber from Perth was delighted with his good luck when one night he broke into a house to find a very valuable collection of rare books. He spent some time carrying the heavy books out to his car before driving away, very pleased with his spoils. Sweating from the exercise and the fear of being discovered, he should have called it a day, but, instead, he decided to pull another job that night. Unfortunately, by this stage he was so exhausted by all the carrying that he had a heart attack and keeled over while in the process of robbing the next house. The owner of the house returned at midnight to find him sprawled out on the carpet, dead.

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