You can always rely on truth to be a whole lot stranger and more entertaining than fiction. In January of this year in Australia,  a man smashed his way into an adult toy shop and had sex with blow-up dolls before abandoning the adult sex toys in a nearby lane.

Business owners in Cairns believe the same culprit is responsible for break-ins and till thefts at the Sapphire Bar and no less than three break-ins at an adult sex toy shop in Spence Street.

His method of entry is to smash through walls and squeeze through tight holes – and that’s not limited to just the walls.

The owner of the adult sex toy shop, who wished to be named only as Vogue, said that in a first unreported break-in, the man had stolen five dolls and had sex with one of them.

“He has been taking the dolls out the back of the adult sex toy store, blowing them up using the dolls and leaving them in the alley,” he said.

“It is totally bizarre. It is a real concern that someone like that is out on the street.”

Adult sex toy store owner Vogue said a sex toy also went missing in the second break-in and that the offender had a liking for the doll model named “Jungle Jane”, which had been taken on both occasions.

He said he was dumbfounded that the burglar also had the “weird” habit of cleaning up the mess he had made after entering the building.

The burglar again smashed through a wall in the roof area of the shop on either Monday night or early yesterday morning but was scared off by a newly installed alarm system.

Vogue and David Sharman, the owner of the Sapphire Bar on Lake St that has a rear entry in the same lane as the adult shop, both believe they have been targeted by the same thief.