It was 2004 when 27 year old Jamie Lacey broke into a neighbor's house and scattered pornographic magazines around the bathroom. He also made a 'recreational' device from a bottle of detergent, a piece of wood and a rubber glove. He was finally arrested in 2006 when police were able to match his DNA with the DNA left on the rubber glove.

There is also a vacuum cleaner involved in this story, which the defense argued could not be proved to have been used for pleasurable purposes. The Judge's retort?

I'm sure that your client didn't Hoover the carpets,

Yes, quite.

Lacey was sentenced to 12 months community service. The judge declined to send him to jail because he had held a steady job for two years and was now a father.

Obviously, he has graduated from rubber gloves.

Reuters