magine this: you're at home alone, sleeping.
6 AM in the morning, you hear someone call a name, softly.
You open your eyes, turn your head, and see two masked men standing beside your bed, armed with machetes glistening, staring down at you.
You're frozen in fear, heart pounding.
One of them takes a closer look at you...
leans in...
examines your face...
takes your hand...
and...
....
shakes it. Says, "sorry, mate."
They leave; turns out they didn't come to kill you.
Whew.
This happened to a man in New South Wales, Australia.
Two men were hired by a male client with weird sexual fantasies to roleplay some sort of rape fantasy - by breaking into his house, tying him up and tickling him with a broom.
However, the Client had moved away, without sufficiently updating his two playmates.
In moves a new guy, a new Resident.
He wakes up to a scene like the one we just imagined.
When the men called out the name of the Client, the Resident turned on the light.
He saw them standing above his bed with the machetes, which they appeared to have brought as props for the role play.
When they realised their error, one of the pair said, "Sorry, mate", and shook the Resident's hand.
The two men left the Resident's house, but he called the police anyway because they had entered his house in a threatening manner.
The police caught them, and the case eventually went to court, but the two men were acquitted of the charges against them.
The judge ruled that evidence did not suggest the men's actions were intentional. "They carried the machetes either as a prop or something to use in that fantasy."
He said, “the facts of the case are unusual.” He can say that again.
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