Puzzling headline of the day

From Reuters: And WHY did they let him out?

Um, maybe because otherwise he would have died?

German police had to rescue a 20-year-old man from a train station suitcase locker after he shut himself in for fun and began to suffocate.

Yeah, sure, the guy sounds like a drunken idiot, and I don't know a lot about German law enforcement, but I'd guess that they're probably obligated to save the lives of innocent (if stupid) civilians when they get a call like that.