Thursday, August 30, 2007

'Cat' burglars give the slip to Philippine police commandos

Heavily-armed Philippines police surrounded a Manila bank for hours on Tuesday after its alarm went off, only to have the intruders, a pair of cats, escape.

The Special Weapons and Tactics unit in the Marikina district rushed to the bank at dawn and made sure no one could leave the bank except through the front door.

The police then entered the building only to see a stray cat slip through the door and escape.

Once inside, the police saw another cat flee through a small hole in the ceiling. Nothing was missing from the bank although cat droppings were all over the place.

"Those cats just came through the ceiling. There is no sign of forced entry so it looks the cats set off the alarms," said precinct commander Senior Inspector Ben Mabalot.

Police said the bank manager later said that he noticed a hole in the roof, large enough for a cat but did not do anything about it because the hole was too small for a person.

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