A man obsessed with stealing his female neighbours' lingerie and hiding it away has been caught and arrested after a ceiling collapsed under the weight of his booty.
The thief in his 30s, only known as Tan, stashed more than 2000 pieces of underwear in a secret hiding place in the suspended ceiling of his flat in Yulin, of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southeast China.
When he ran out of space, he also used the ceiling cavities in the communal fire escape stairwells for storing even more bras and knickers that he pinched.
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He collected each piece, at least one in every colour imaginable, by creeping into his neighbours' homes while they were out or at work with a master key that he had in his possession, the South China Morning Post reported. It is not yet known how he got hold of the key.