BEIRUT: A north Lebanon resident shot and wounded a man allegedly attempting to
burglarize his home Thursday, the state-run National News Agency reported.
For instance, Al-Asri Arabic English dictionary (1993), Al-Mawrid Arabic English dictionary (2000) and A dictionary of modern written Arabic (1974), three widely circulated Arabic-English dictionaries, list the following as English equivalents of the word saraqa 'steal': steal, rob, pinch, plunder,
burglarize (burgle), filch, crib, cabbage, kidnap, etc.
They keep letting the Republicans
burglarize the country on behalf of corporations.
Commercial burglars choose to
burglarize facilities in familiar areas with higher market values.
In the United States, in what seemed to be an unimportant incident, five men were arrested in an attempt to
burglarize the national headquarters of the Democratic party in the Watergate apartment complex.
Before Barnum, circuses were very often run by fly-by-night cheats: ticket takers would regularly short-change customers; pickpockets, working on a commission arrangement with the owners, would roam the grounds; "Monday men" would steal the wash from clotheslines or
burglarize homes when townsfolk were at the performance or watching the circus parade; and games of chance would be fixed.
The Associated Press reported out of Laurel, Maryland, on August 9 about a criminal who picked the wrong home to
burglarize. The suspect, 31-year-old David Bartholmew, broke in to a house in the middle of the day.
giving a whole new meaning to mug 'shot.'" Forty-year-old Alexander Gonzales was allegedly attempting to
burglarize a house in Las Vegas and was crawling through a doggie door to enter the house when he was shot in the face by the homeowner.
In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, five teenagers vandalize and
burglarize eight homes and a school.
