That sounds like some advert in a lousy magazine. But it is actually what happened to a friend of mine.

In the weekend El Hombre ran into one of our neighbors whilst out with the dogs. “Have you heard” she said “there are some robbers in the village”. No, he had not heard about it. Well, 2 girls had seen a skinny black man borrow Diegos, who lives around the corner, ladder. He then proceeded to break in to another house in the street and steal various items. Apparently this is what he does. Borrows Diegos ladder and then break in.

El Hombre thought that it sounded like a very disorganized thief and went on with his day.

Later we ran into our friend C. “I had a really poor nights sleep” he said,”you will never guess what happened. I had to get up and 2 in the night as one of the neighbors had forgotten her key and only realized when she got back from the local disco bar and 2 in the night. So I had to borrow Diegos ladder so I could crawl through one of her windows and let her in.”

And to be straight with you, C is not exactly skinny and neither is he black (are you “allowed” to say that with all the political correctness around?). So we had a really good laugh after discovering his thieving alter ego.