Hapless thief holes up in French bank lavatory

BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Chinese medianet) -- A hapless thief

drilled his way into a French bank, but missed the safe and instead found

himself in a lavatory where he was promptly arrested.

The21-year-old thiefbroke into a building

adjoining a branch of Banque Populaire in the Mediterranean port city of

Marseille in the early hours of Saturday morning,a French

newspapersaid Tuesday.

The paper said the man, who came from Belgium and was

not named, thought that he was going to end up in a room housing safe deposit

boxes but instead drilled into the lavatories.

Alarms were triggered when he broke through the wall

and police caught the man when they arrived on the scene.

(Agencies)