Australia: Intruder dies after throat cut on window

This story has nothing to do with guns but it is too good to pass over:

A GRANDFATHER has told how he desperately tried in vain to save the life of a burglar who was breaking into his home. The burglar bled to death in the man's frontyard after he tripped and slashed his throat while he climbed through a bedroom window. The resident, who didn't want to be named, said the burglar's throat "looked like an axe had hit it" after he came down face first on the jagged glass.

The deadly mishap occurred in the Adelaide suburb of O'Sullivan Beach at 2.10am yesterday after the burglar used a concrete garden statue to smash his way into the main bedroom. Police believe the burglar stumbled on a piece of the statue, which had broken when it struck the window. The couple, sleeping less than one metre away from the window, were showered with glass. "He threw one of our statues through the window," the man said. "It was a hell of a bang when it came through. My wife woke up screaming." The middle-aged man said he told his horrified wife to call police before peering out the window to see who was there.

"I didn't know whether I was going to be fighting for my life or running for my life," the man said. "I didn't know whether it would be one person or more or whether they would try and attack me." The resident was stunned to discover the burglar lying unconscious outside the window "in a pool of blood". "He wasn't trying to talk; he was well past that," he said.

"I took a couple of towels out there and tried to stop the bleeding. "Once I realised he wasn't going to attack me, I wanted to try and help him. "I felt his pulse but he was just cold and clammy. "He wasn't moving and he was barely breathing. "You could hear the air going in and out through his throat; not his nose and mouth. "By then I realised there was nothing I could do." "My guess is he slipped when he tried to get inside. "He was only wearing thongs and he must have slipped and fallen."

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