New | Underwear thief foiled after 2,000 pieces of lingerie stolen from neighbours cause ceiling collapse
The used underwear, which belonged to women in Yulin City, China, had been stolen by a male resident and hidden above ceiling tiles in his residential building's stairwells.
Some thieves have a penchant for the strangest things.
Residents in Yulin city, Guangxi province, were treated to a colourful array of more than 2,000 sets of women’s lingerie laid out neatly on the ground at a public space in their neighbourhood on Saturday.
The used underwear, which belonged to women in the neighbourhood, had been stolen by a male resident over the course of the year, news website Gxnews.com.cn reported.
The report said the man hid the stolen lingerie above ceiling tiles in a number of stairwells within the residential building where he lived.
His perverse deed was uncovered only when one of the stairwells’ ceilings gave way under the weight of his loot, and several sets of bras and knickers came tumbling down.