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A martial arts enthusiast pulls a vehicle with a rope connected to his eye sockets during a performance in Hefei, Anhui province November 30, 2009. Picture taken November 30, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily

Pictures of the year: Oddly

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    Police seek blow-up doll sex bandit

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    Wed Jan 7, 2009 12:23pm EST
    A variety of sex doll heads are pictured in a display case at Orient Industry's showroom in Tokyo May 23, 2007. REUTERS/Michael Caronna

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man broke into three adult shops, had sex with blow up dolls named "Jungle Jane" and then dumped his plastic conquests in a nearby alley, local media reported Wednesday.

    Oddly Enough

    "It's totally bizarre. It's a real concern that someone like that is out on the street," said one of the owners of the adult sex shops in Cairns in northern Queensland state.

    "He has been taking the dolls out the back and blowing them up and using the dolls and leaving them in the alley," the owner, who gave the name of Vogue, told the Cairns Post newspaper.

    Police told the Cairns Post that scientific officers had taken DNA samples, fingerprints and pictures of the crime scene.

    (Reporting by Pauline Askin, Editing by Dean Yates)



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