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PARIS - What's a television without its remote control? Not much, decided a thief in southwestern France who returned to the home from which he had just stolen a TV to pick up the remote control - and was arrested.
The man burgled a pensioner's house in the village of Mussidan, taking the TV and some hunting rifles, police said. While the pensioner was reporting the theft, the thief returned.
Alert neighbours tipped off the police and they caught the man.
A police spokesman said: "I guess there's daring and there's stupid."
- REUTERS
