"I was so embarrassed," said the home owner who called the police on his Roomba. "They asked how long we had it, I said two days and they all started laughing." A couple watching a movie in their bedroom in North Carolina heard a sound downstairs and thought someone had broken into their home. Husband and father Thomas Milam called the police. The operator asked if he was armed and Milam said he was.

Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 29 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com At least their house was clean. A North Carolina homeowner called police claiming an intruder was inside his house in the middle of the night, a published report said. The red-faced homeowners were a bit hasty in their assessment, however, when the suspected burglar turned out to be a rogue robot vacuum cleaner, USA Today reported.

Several police officers stormed into a home in North Carolina after the startled homeowners called to report an intruder in the middle of the night. The suspected burglar turned out to be a rogue robot vacuum cleaner. Over the holidays, Thomas Milam and his wife Elisa were watching a movie just after midnight when they heard a series of noises coming from downstairs. "We both were alarmed, we paused the movie and I had Elisa go to a safe place," Milam said in a notice shared by the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office. "I immediately grabbed my gun, went to Elisa and we stayed there silently waiting to see if we heard more noises. Someone was definitely downstairs rummaging through things, and it sounded close to us." Milam told his wife to call 911 and pointed his gun at the bedroom door.