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A man in Yekaterinburg accused of theft recently tried to evade court marshals by hiding in a refrigerator. Unable to find the suspect in his apartment, marshals decided to question his mother, whom they did find, only later discovering the suspect hiding in the refrigerator. The man, Edouard G., first claimed to have crawled into the refrigerator because he was “hot.” Afterwards, he said he’d done it to ease a hangover.

Hangover in refrigerator

The local bailiffs’ office says its officers spent several hours outside the suspect’s apartment, “before they were able to trick someone inside into opening the exterior metal door.” The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reports that Edouard G. was sentenced to two months in jail.