Thief steals police alarm, gets busted after pressing it

A thief has stolen a mobile police alarm device, mistaking it for car remote. He continued pressing the button until police officers found him walking around the parking lot, trying to figure out which car the “remote” should unlock.

The thief broke into a nursery school late on Saturday in the Russian city of Novokuznetsk in Siberia, Regions.ru website writes.

He crawled into the building through an open window, and stole a notebook, a video camera and several other things from the principal’s office.

In one of the drawers on the desk he found what he believed to be a car remote controller, and took it with him.

As the robber climbed back out of the window, he looked around and saw no one around. Comforted by his apparent success, he started walking up and down the kindergarten's parking lot, pressing the button on the “car remote” again and again, looking for the car it would unlock.

When the police arrived at the nursery school building several minutes later, they found the robber with a plastic bag full of stolen goods, still at the parking lot.

He never realized he was the one who had called the police.