To say that the two Australian burglars who broke into a house during a midnight raid in Melbourne were startled is probably something of an understatement.

The burglars broke into the house by way of a window, only to find that they had been upstaged by a group of drug squad officers who were raiding the house in search of drugs. The police officers had entered through the front door at just about the same time the burglars were entering through the back window.

The burglars made a rapid getaway, but were caught a couple of days later and remanded to appear in court.

Ananova