Teletubby will now face charges for break-in and theft of Chinese food leftovers - Update

In a reversal, Pennsylvania police have filed criminal charges against a college student who, dressed as Laa-Laa the yellow Teletubby, broke into his friends’s home, raided the refrigerator, and fled with leftover Chinese food that he dumped into his “man purse.”



Police officers on Wednesday charged Terez Owens, 20, with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct counts in connection with Sunday’s 2am break-in at a Bethlehem apartment two blocks from the campus of Lehigh University, which Owens attends. According to a Bethlehem Police Department report, a male suspect broke into an apartment “while wearing a yellow Tele Tubbie outfit.”

He then “took Chinese food from the refrigerator and dumped it into his man purse” before departing. Investigators quickly identified the 6’ 2”, 310-pound Owens as the man in the “Laa-Laa,” costume. “Chinese food was found in his purse,” noted officers, who reported that sesame chicken and sweet and sour chicken were purloined.



Additionally, “The Tele Tubbie had cut himself and also left blood all over the place.” While Owens’s friends, who also attend Lehigh, initially declined to press charges, when they realized that they would be responsible for a $495 repair bill, they had a change of heart , according to police Chief Mark DiLuzio. The collegian, a business major from Jacksonville, Florida, will receive a criminal summons by mail, added DiLuzio.