"Let's go across to the vegetable patch and steal some cabbage. I can't carry much myself." Wang asked five employees to join him in stealing. In mid-November, Wang and the five employees roamed around Shenyang city. They committed over 10 thefts just in November, with the most expensive items stolen being five sets of radiators. After the first theft, there was a second one. Wang became addicted to the thrill. One evening, he saw that the door of a nearby sales office wasn't closed, so he couldn't help but walk in and took the TV back home. "I'm not doing it for money, it's more like a game, a desire," Wang said. Actually, he threw most of the stolen items at home untouched. On a construction site, Wang noticed some iron blocks in a corner. Seeing no one around, he took them away and sold them for dozens of yuan. "It feels very exciting and stimulating to easily take others' things. There's an indescribable excitement and happiness," recalled Wang in the Shenbei New District Detention Center yesterday. He smiled with a sense of enjoyment.
Eventually, the chef admitted that the thief was the restaurant owner, Wang. The police found an empty bread van in a residential area. According to the license plate, the police contacted the owner, who said he had lent the car to Wang. Wang specifically borrowed a friend's bread van. He was about to load the iron gate onto the van when he saw a police car parked at the entrance of the community. Frightened, Wang abandoned the van and fled.
In reality, Wang didn't lack money. He lived in a house of over a hundred square meters and owned a large restaurant, earning tens of thousands of yuan per month. Yet, from vehicles and electrical appliances to cabbages, he took whatever he could see. Wang explained that it was just too easy, too tempting. Once, seeing the vegetables outside his restaurant unattended, he felt itchy inside. "They're right there, it would bother me not to take them."
Wang confessed to having a psychological disorder. His wealth reached a certain level where many things could be obtained effortlessly, so he started seeking other ways to satisfy his need for stimulation. Any behavior is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. His first theft satisfied his need for stimulation and, without any constraints, led to a second and third time.
In November this year, Wang planned to buy another house and went to check out a new neighborhood. During his visit, an iron gate in a fenced area downstairs caught his attention, and he decided to steal it again. In a year, the value of stolen goods involved exceeded 200,000 yuan.
Yesterday morning, at the Shenbei New District Detention Center in Shenyang City, the reporter met the suspect Wang. "I just like the stimulating feeling of stealing!" Wang smiled while saying this. Reporter Bai Lin took the photo.
Wang's addiction to theft also pulled his restaurant employees into it. Within a month, they committed over ten thefts, involving a case value of more than 200,000 yuan.
While in custody, Wang reflected deeply on his actions. He said that from initially finding theft stimulating, it eventually developed into a psychological illness.
The chef's confession was full of loopholes, arousing the suspicion of the police, and the security guard of the residential area also claimed, "The person driving the bread van was not this chef."
Subsequently, the police arrested Wang at his restaurant.
Consultant Cong Meimei from the Shenyang Tongren Psychological Research and Consulting Center introduced that such a situation might have two main causes: one, after reaching a certain level of wealth, many things can be easily obtained, leading to a search for other ways to satisfy the psychological need for stimulation; two, any behavior goes through a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. Since his first theft satisfied his psychological need for stimulation and was not constrained, it led to a second and third time.
To seek stimulation due to increased wealth, one should seek treatment from a psychologist.