{"id":469692,"date":"2026-02-10T02:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469692\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:49:09","slug":"former-nrl-player-responds-after-home-break-in-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469692\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NRL player responds after home break in – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NRL<\/a> player David Mead<\/a> was caught up in a home invasion attempt and was able to stop two intruders and chase them off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mead and his family were asleep in bed at their home last Tuesday in the early morning, woken up by noises.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before 2am, Mead noticed the door was wide open, quickly went downstairs and went after the intruders before they got into a car and fled the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former Brisbane Broncos<\/a> winger reflected on the events in a video<\/a> posted on Monday.<\/p>\n

“I panicked, adrenaline took over, and I screamed WTF in a much stronger tone,” Mead revealed on social media.<\/p>\n

After getting downstairs, Mead explains, “I was still half asleep at this point. I was still trying to work out my coordinates and bearings in my mind.<\/p>\n

“I turned left cause I heard the [first] car screech, and by the time I turned the corner, the second one was taking off before I could get to them.”<\/p>\n

In the six-minute video<\/a>, the 37-year-old shares suggestions on how to handle the situation and how he would do things differently if it happens again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I know instincts take over, it’s fight or flight, we all react differently…make the physical confrontation as limited as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If that happens again, hopefully I don’t react, and I hope that they just leave without any altercations.”<\/p>\n

He also suggested having security cameras and alarm measures in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mead shared that his wife, Taneal, struggled with sleep after the break-in, but has improved as the week continued and that he was sleeping on the couch and experiencing limited sleep after the break in occured.<\/p>\n

After detailing the personal events during and after the break-in, Mead showed empathy for the intruders and hopes they can find a sport, study or create a business to turn to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL player David Mead was caught up in a home invasion attempt and was able to stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-469692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}