Men hired for sexual fantasy break into wrong house

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Andrew Feinberg

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Two men hired to carry out a stranger’s sexual fantasy turned up at the wrong address with machetes following a mix up.

The pair had reportedly been offered up to A$5,000 (£2,700) to tie a man up in just his underpants and stroke him with a broom at a property near Griffith, in New South Wales.

But when the client moved to a new home, the men are said to have mistakenly broken in to a property in the same street as the original address in July last year.

When they arrived, they called out their client’s name and the resident turned on the light to find the two men standing over his bed holding machetes, the BBC reports.

Realising their error, the men are said to have politely apologised, before shaking his hand and leaving, while the man called the police.

When the pair eventually turned up at the correct address, their client reportedly noticed a large knife in one of the men’s trousers and told him to leave it inside the car.

He is said to have then cooked them eggs, bacon and noodles before the police turned up.

One of the men has now been acquitted after a judge ruled there was no evidence to prove his intention had been to intimidate.

The judge said the fantasy was unscripted and that the men had carried the machetes either as props, or to use as part of the fantasy.

The man’s lawyer said it had been a commercial agreement and that they had not entered the house with intent to intimidate.