Pictured wedged in a front door, the man who got stuck as he tried to break into house after locks changed
A man attempting to break into a house drew a crowd when he became stuck in the front door for a quarter of an hour.
The man, who it is claimed once lived at the property before the locks were changed amid an eviction, was attempting to access the house in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Witnesses said the man had smashed a window in the door with a brick, before clearing the glass with a stick.
He then tried to squeeze through a gap in the door, but became stuck for 15 minutes.
As a crowd gathered, the man was helplessly trying to struggle through.
Andy Ripley, a local resident, captured the moment on camera after watching the situation unfold at around 3.45pm on Monday.
He said: "He attracted quite a crowd. I think he has been evicted from his house, or is due to be and he couldn't get in because the landlord changed the locks.
"So he decided to break the front window and climb in. But he got a bit stuck. No one helped him. It was all very odd."
A friend of the man arrived with a pair of ladders and once he was freed from the door, the man used the ladders to gain access to the property using the first floor window.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "Officers attended and found no crime had been committed."
In February, pictures emerged of a hapless burglar who had to be rescued after getting wedged in a bathroom window in Greater Manchester.
Sean Crawshaw, from Radcliffe, was caught dangling from the upstairs window of a house he was trying to raid.
The occupant, a woman in her 60s, saw him suspended from the window after she returned from a trip out.
Crawshaw, 47, had shimmied up the drainpipe and managed to poke his head through the window – but the rest of him failed to follow.
He was found stuck kneeling on the windowsill and when police officers PC Dolan and PC Grady arrived on scene the fire service was called. It took 20 minutes to free him in the incident last December.
Crawshaw pleaded guilty to burglary at Minshull Street Crown Court and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
