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That’s a headline you don’t expect to see very often.

What happens behind closed doors between consenting adults is none of our business, but the details of one sex fantasy gone wrong in New South Wales in July of last year are now known around the world.

The BBC reports that the two men, armed with machetes, aimed to carry out a client’s fantasy of “being tied up in his underwear and stroked with a broom”, except they entered the wrong house.

One of those men has now been acquitted, with the judge adding in an understated matter that “the facts of the case are unusual”:

The role play was arranged over Facebook by a man near Griffith, New South Wales, who provided his address to the hired pair.

“He was willing to pay A$5,000 if it was ‘really good’,” the judge said.

However, the client moved to another address 50km (30 miles) away without updating the two men. They then entered a home on the street of the original address.

When the resident noticed a light on in his kitchen at 06:15, he assumed it was a friend who came by daily to make morning coffee.

When the men called out the name of their client, the resident turned on the light, and saw them standing above his bed with the machetes.

At this point, it reaches peak Australia, because one of the machete-carrying men said “sorry, mate”, and shook the shocked resident’s hand.

Sky News with one more great detail about that exchange:

…the resident of the home where the men mistakenly turned up to told police that when he noticed a light on in his lounge at around 6.15am…he called out: “B***** off, it’s too early.”

After hearing a voice asking “is your name Kevin?”, the man said he turned his light on to see two men he did not recognise standing next to his bed, both holding machetes.

The handshaking then ensued.

Not to be deterred, the men then drove to the correct address, where the client cooked bacon, eggs, and noodles before the police later arrived and arrested them.

It appears that the fantasy was never fulfilled.

In handing down the not guilty verdict, the judge stated that all evidence pointed to an honest mistake.

Read yourself for some great ‘lawyer-speak’:

A lawyer for Terrence Leroy, one of the accused, said: “It was a commercial agreement to tie up and stroke a semi-naked man in his underpants with a broom. Entry was not with intent to intimidate.”

There’s a sexual innuendo to be made there, but I’ll leave that to you.

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