Therese Apel

Mississippi Clarion Ledger

After a man fell through the ceiling of a Jackson barbecue restaurant and crawled around on the floor, stopping to make himself dinner, the owners good-naturedly took to Facebook to find him.

"SHARE SHARE SHARE," the post begins. "E&L BarBQue was robbed last night at midnight by this amateur!"

The post, which is tagged with "#WorldsDumbest #amateur #BBQ," went on to say that the owners had been able to pull some photos that showed the intruder's face, but they're looking to see if there's anything better they can use.

"The video is actually hysterical," the post reads, with a laughing face.

The intruder fell through multiple levels of the ceiling as he walked around above it, and then he is described as crawling around on the floor "like he was in 'Mission Impossible.'"

Then the man cooked himself dinner, E&L Barbeque's Facebook says.

"He tried to bust out our security monitor but wasn't smart enough to bust the hard drive where all the evidence is stored," they said.

The administrator of E&L's Facebook page said the man spent about two hours inside the store.

"He helped himself to steak sandwiches, which he had to turn on the grill to cook; he cooked himself fries and got a bag full of sodas, ribs and steak sandwiches, which he couldn't manage to get back out through the ceiling, so he had to leave them anyway," the administrator wrote in response to a query from The Clarion-Ledger. "There were a couple of other funny things, but all in all he spent about two hours in the restaurant and got away with a couple of BBQ plates."

And no good story comes without a moral.

"This is not the model you want to follow if you want to successfully rob a business," the post says.

If you recognize this man or have knowledge of this crime, call JPD at 601-960-1234 orCrime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS (8477). Send a text to 847411 and enter "JPD," followed by your tip information, then press "send." You may also submit a tip online by clicking on the web tip link on the homepage of theCentral MS Crime Stoppers website, or submit your tip information from a mobile device or any other computer by going towww.P3tips.com.

ContactTherese Apel at 601-961-7236 ortapel@gannett.com. Follow her onFacebook andTwitter.