Underwear thief caught after weight of stolen lingerie caused ceiling to collapse

Residents in Yulin city, Guangxi province, China, were treated to a colourful array of more than 2,000 pieces 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 living in the neighbourhood, had been stolen by a male resident over the course of the year.



The man then hid the stolen lingerie above ceiling tiles in a number of stairwells within the residential building where he lived.



His actions were 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. The man, surnamed Tang and in his 30s, had apparently used a master key to open doors to around 750 households in the area. He then crept inside stealing the homeowners' underwear.