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Chinese gamer’s ‘sick day’ plan backfires when wife mistakes him for burglar, calls police to raid flat

He hid in the wardrobe because he didn’t dare to tell his wife he was skipping work to play games

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Police in east China were annoyed at being called out to investigate a suspected burglary only to find an apologetic husband hiding from his wife in a wardrobe. Photo: Qnsb.com

A man in eastern China who took a sneaky day off work to play mobile games ended up having to answer to the police after his wife mistook him for a burglar, a local newspaper reported.

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The woman, identified only by her surname Li, called the police on Tuesday morning after returning home from taking her children to school and finding the door to her flat locked from the inside and noises coming from within, Youth Times reported on Thursday.

When officers arrived at the property in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, five minutes later, Li told them she feared she was being burgled.

But when they went inside to check, the only person they found was Li’s husband, surnamed Ding, hiding in a wardrobe.

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The husband told police he planned to spend the day playing mobile games. Photo: Qnsb.com
The husband told police he planned to spend the day playing mobile games. Photo: Qnsb.com
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