Thief Signals Time-Out to Catch His Breath During Police Chase

An out-of-shape thief asked for a ‘time-out’ while being chased by police in the Philippines yesterday. He ran out of breath after sprinting for 500 yards and stopped to make the universal time-out hand gesture.

The man had broken into a house and stolen two mobile phones and a local police patrol heard the owner’s screams and gave chase. If the police had played fair, they should have stopped where they were until the thief had a chance to catch his breath and continue running, but the bastards ignored the man’s hand signal and grabbed him. They claim they thought he was trying to make the sign of the cross to ward off vampires and would have stopped if they’d realized he was actually signaling a timeout. Yeah, right.