Burglar injures himself breaking into house, asks residents for help

By JD

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a bungled break-in forced a bleeding man to ask for medical help from residents in a Salt Lake City home he was trying to burglarize.

Salt Lake City police Detective Dennis McGowan tells KSL-TV that the 20-year-old man had a severe arm injury from broken window glass. He was hospitalized in critical condition after police and paramedics were called a little after 6 a.m. Thursday.

Resident Pablo Solorio says he awoke to the sound of breaking glass and found the man walking through the living room and hallway screaming for help. Solorio says the intruder had a video game console in his hands but claimed he jumped through the window to get away from people who were chasing him.

There’s a very fine line between being nice and being a pussy, and Pablo Solorio falls on the wrong side of that line. Everyone’s making such a big deal out of this story because the people who lived in this house were so forgiving and compassionate towards someone trying to steal from them blah blah blah – Dude you literally have a license to beat the shit out of this guy that’s trying to break into your place and instead you helped him lick his wounds. Who knows what he would’ve done had he gotten into that house by breaking a window with something other than his bare hand – could’ve hurt anyone in the place, and I bet he wasn’t gonna drive you to the hospital afterward. 

PS – This guy has to be the worst burglar in the history of the game, right? Puts himself in critical condition trying to steal a fucking video game console. If it was PS4 I’d totally understand, but this happened last week so it wasn’t released yet.  Plus, something tells me Pablo Solorio can’t afford the latest and greatest technology.