Polite burglar breaks into the wrong house

This polite prowler is as nice as they come. A thoughtful thief broke into the wrong home in Vineland, N.J., and then begged the homeowner's pardon after realizing his error. Maria Cardona, 39, confronted the benevolent burglar after he surrepitiously slipped into her home through a hole he tore in her back-door screen.

"What are you doing in my house?" Cardona asked the man, who answered that he was looking for "a guy named Greg." "No Greg lives here," Cardona said. "Is this 1021?" the confused criminal asked, to which Cardona replied, "No, this is 1022."



"I'm so sorry," the unidentified thief said. "I meant to break into 1021." The pair then awkwardly chatted about the burglar's family - before the considerate crook offered to repair her damaged screen.

Cardona, who declined the offer, said that the man made her "nervous," as he rambled on, keeping one hand in his pocket. But he was "really polite," Cardona added, although she said she desperately wanted the thief to go away during the ordeal. "I thought he had a knife," she said.