On this particularly wintry morning here are some tales to lighten the Monday mood:

A thief’s plan to drill his way into a French bank backfired when he emerged in the toilet.

He missed the safe and instead found himself in a lavatory where he was promptly arrested, French newspaper La Provence reported.

Police chiefs in China have been slammed for hiring actors to rob a bank as a training exercise – without telling anyone else.

Only the director and the deputy director of the Zhenzhou police department knew it was a drill – everyone else, including the bank, thought it was a real raid, reports Guangzhou Daily.

Critics said police officers, unaware that it was a training drill, could easily have used their guns on the fleeing robbers.

An Australian burglar, who hid inside a tin roof when his victims came home unexpectedly, was caught after he fainted.

After two hours, with the hot sun beating down, the thief could take no more and passed out, reports the Australian Daily Telegraph.

Source: Ananova