A 60-year-old woman who helped police nab burglars at her home in New Zealand said that she was furious like a mother angry at her child on seeing the thieves, a media report said.

Lesley Buckleigh said her first reaction upon finding two strange men at her home in her Waimauku was pure anger, New Zealand Herald reported.

She saw an unfamiliar car in her driveway and while confronting the driver, her television dropped out of her house window and into the garden.

'I was like a mother angry at my child. You wanna tell them off, and tell them you know they're gonna be in trouble,' Buckleigh was quoted as saying.

She promptly locked the gate to prevent the other man from escaping.

'I wasn't threatened at all. I said 'What do you think you're doing?' and 'Why is my TV in the garden?'.'

The burglar jumped the fence to escape, but in the meantime, she called up the police.

'I was still on the phone when the woman on the line said 'We've got them'. I was so impressed.'

Sergeant Michael Rickards said a patrol car was already in the area for an unrelated incident. The driver turned around and blocked off one end of Buckleigh's street.

'They were on a road to nowhere after that,' Buckleigh said.

The burglars were found and gave up a camera and cash they had taken from the home.