BEIJING: A Chinese man who stole hundreds of pieces of ladies' underwear had his secret exposed after an emergency exit ceiling where he had been storing his hoard collapsed, state media reported.
The man, surnamed Tang and in his 30s, admitted to having mental problems since he was young and that he did not know how long he had been obsessed with women's undergarments, reports said.
Police in the city of Yulin said they found more than 2,000 pieces of panties and bras in the roof where he had stuffed his collection.
Residents in the housing complex where Tang lived had complained about the mysterious vanishing of their undergarments.
Tang used a master key for the apartments in the complex to sneak in and steal the underwear when residents were not there, media said this week.
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A known obsession but a harmless one. Not like the one our Mullahs practice by sodomizing young boys and then killing them.
@ABC: You got it nailed. Pretty much an Indian cultural thing. Or maybe somehow this Indian snuck up into China, maybe mistook it for Afghanistan.
@ABC
At least we are limited to steeling panties. Everybody with internet knows what Pakistan is No 1 in.
@drinda: nope more common than you think. There is online shop for used undergarments.
Everybody has some obsession and some people have weird obsessions. The undergarments thief is one such example. The good thing is that he did not steal anything else :P
I think its written Chinese by mistake. Judging from his attitude he seems more like an Indian
That's not mental illness... or is it??