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Give a Man a Fish, and He’ll Eat for a Day

Neighbors of a house in Motueka, New Zealand, called police: they saw a man had broken in. Once police arrested the intruder, the house’s caretaker, Sandy Burn, determined “he made the omelette with eggs, honey, butter chicken sauce, and cayenne pepper.” Police say Shane Graham Halse, 45, was drunk when he broke in looking for something to eat, and Halse pleaded guilty to burglary. The break-in was his second attempt at getting something to eat that day. “Apparently he had lost his fishing rod during the journey” to the house, Burn said. “Sure enough, I found it at the back of the property.” (RC/Wellington Dominion-Post) ...Teach a man to fish, and he’ll drink beer all day.