He breaks into the house and tries to hide in a laundry basket, like a child (of course it didn’t work)

Man caught in Zoetermeer had questionable disguise skills, to say the least. Police caught and photographed the homeless man.

Some criminals have already tried to evade the police in an unusual way.

An Australian thief tried to escape on a children’s bicycle. Detail: the bike was too small and slow; he was caught a few minutes later.

A Chinese man tried to hide with branches tied to his body, trying to look like a walking bush. When security cameras saw a tree walking down the street…

A German man entered a sewer system to try to escape the police. He was trapped for hours – and had to be rescued by firefighters.

In the USA, a thief robbed a store and calmly got into a taxi. He asked the driver for a receipt, and it was this receipt that helped the police identify him.

Now we Netherlands. A clearly unusual situation. And in fact it doesn’t even involve a thief, despite the fact that a crime is involved.

In Zoetermeer, last week, a report of apparent break-in.

Several agents, some in uniform and others in plainclothes, went to the aforementioned house. It was easy to find the attacker.

When they arrived at the garden, the police found a man trying to hide, trying to disguise his presence.

But, as , his disguise skills were questionable: the man was sitting on the grass, with half his body stuffed into a laundry basket and the rest of the body, with jeans, clearly visible. Head, torso and belly covered; legs and feet exposed.

“He tried to hide in a garden, but to no avail,” Zoetermeer police wrote in .

Yes, the police caught the attacker and were also able to take a photo.

According to local police, the man was a homeless who was looking for a place to sleep that night.

“After a conversation, the situation was resolved calmly.”