A scrawny crook was caught on CCTV squeezing through a tiny, six-inch gap to steal a motorbike.
The footage shows how he ducked down and squeezed his head through the narrow opening of the locked door.
However, he couldn’t seem to get his chest through the tight space, so he pulled himself back out.
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After pacing around on the street for a while, thinking about what to do, he decided to have another go.
Slowly but surely, he managed to edge himself through the slender gap before tumbling out the other side on his back.
He then put a coat over his topless torso before walking towards a car parked in the block of flats’ ground-floor garage.
It is unknown how he escaped with the loot.
The bizarre break-in took place in the early hours of Tuesday (28 Jan) in Divinópolis, northwest of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Three residents called the police after heading down to the garage later that morning and finding some cars open.
The police say the suspect made off with a motorbike, a children’s bicycle, personal documents, a phone charger, and 50 BRL (£6.80) in cash.
The 26-year-old man was arrested yesterday (29 Jan) morning in the city centre.
He admitted to the crime and told the police he’d handed the motorbike and the bicycle to another person earlier that morning.
He confessed to stashing the remaining loot in a room in a nearby hotel.
The police seized a pocket knife, two phone chargers, a rucksack, and a garage gate remote control from him.
He was taken to the police station, as reported by Need To Know.
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