Chinese burglar arrested after he got head stuck between window bars escaping from house

A burglar was caught in eastern China after he got his head stuck between two window bars while trying to flee from a victim’s house, according to state media.

A woman came back to her home in Kunshan in Jiangsu province and found that her bedroom had been ransacked, state television CCTV reported.

The woman was quoted as saying that the thief must have heard her return and then got stuck while trying to escape through a window.

Footage released by the policed showed the man shouting, “My neck’s jammed!”

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One of the iron bars was chiselled away and the man, whose full name was not given, was arrested.