THERE are plenty of good reasons to lose weight, but sometimes you need a little bit of extra motivation to keep the kilojoules at bay.
That wasn't a problem for an Indian man who has admitted to police that he deliberately lost 10kg in order to commit a robbery of his former employer.
34-year-old Moti Singh from Ahmedabad revealed his cunning plan under interrogation, confirming a strict diet regimen which had allowed him to slim down enough to enter the property via a ventilator shaft.
The alleged offender is believed to have told officers that when he worked at the home two years ago he had taken note of the location of valuables and the security system, with the property fitted with CCTV cameras monitoring electronic doors.
However he figured out the alternate access route, realising he would have to significantly slim down in order to slide through the unorthodox entry.
He said he only ate one meal a day for about three months to shed the weight.
Unfortunately his carefully laid plans came to naught after investigators spotted him on video footage from a hardware store when he was buying a saw to cut the glass of a window also used during the break-in.
Officers then were able to track him using the location of his cellphone, and recovered stolen cash and valuables after they apprehended him.
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