At least when some hardware can no longer be profitable for people like me, I have the confidence that someone out there can still squeeze some satoshies out of it thus they won't be worthless junk.
I mean the existence of these electricity thieves contributed to the value of secondhand hardware, right?
Be careful the police could be reading

haha, right. Stealing is bad no matter how good you are in justifying it. They should have not steal and they'd be fine I guess, electricity prices are low in China. I don't think this incident will affect the attitude towards Bitcoin in general in China and I think the country will remain staying among the top miners in the world.