A fat guy in a little shaft!
A chubby thief in southwest China got stuck in an elevator shaft for eight hours after he tried to make his escape, Europics reports.
The chunky crook, Yi Fu, 35, was attempting to rob an apartment when residents startled him.
Armed with knives and broomsticks, they chased the 266-pound man into a building, where he gave the unruly crowd the slip by climbing into an out-of-service elevator shaft.
Fu then managed to climb inside the shaft that leads to the roof, but instead of getting away, the overweight thief became stuck in a tiny opening.
Residents believed he had made his escape, so they went to sleep for the night.
“No one could hear his cries echoing in the night air and down the elevator shaft,” said a police spokesman. “In fact, he was so firmly wedged that he spent eight hours trapped in the hole.”
Nobody noticed anything until resident Shoo Pei, 49, was on her way to work at dawn when she heard the hapless crook’s cries from above.
After she notified authorities, firefighters spent an hour freeing the man.