In a bizarre incident, a rich farmer from Sichuan province in China has been apprehended for stealing chickens and ducks from a number of villages just to buy fuel for his $290,000 BMW car.
Nobody expected the thief would turn out to be one of the wealthiest farmers in their vicinity, a man residing in a multi-story building and driving a luxury BMW car.
The farmer, Qiang couldn’t meet up with the demands of maintaining and fuelling his “thirsty” BMW, so he resorted to stealing other people’s chickens and ducks, rearing them on his farm, to sell them off, in other to raise money for petrol.
When the complaints of stolen chickens started increasing, the police decided to investigate the matter. They checked the surveillance tapes and observed a man on a bike with no plate number, riding during the late hours of the night. They mounted checkpoints 24/7 to monitor him and found the suspicious motorcycle one day. They started trailing the motorcycle and saw it enter Qiang’s home. There wasn’t much evidence to conclude that Qiang was the culprit so his home was monitored.
Reports say people come to Qiang’s home to buy chicken and everyone assumed he raised them himself. The cops confronted Qiang and he admitted to being the poultry thief. He went ahead to say that his BMW was “thirsty” and that he was having some financial difficulties, so he took to stealing the domestic birds and selling them to cushion his monthly expenses on fuel.
His story has gotten a lot of buzz on social media and many people are making jest at him for resorting to a minor crime like this, in a bid to drive an expensive car.