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

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.

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.