How Do You Determine a Superior Society? Judge It by Its Criminals

Police found more than 4,000 pieces of lingerie in the home of a Japanese construction worker who used climbing skills developed on his job to steal women's underwear.

Police believe that Shigeo Kodama, 54, amassed the 3,977 panties, 355 bras and 10 pairs of stockings over a six-year period. He was arrested in February after he stole underwear from two houses, and police later raided his home.

Somewhere around Pantie No. 3500, as he clung to a drainage pipe, toes barely retaining a life-sustaining grip on the ledge, preparing to enter an apartment for No. 3501, it probably occurred to him that he had a problem, I mean, if he were self-reflective at all.