Of Sex Toys and Stealing: 3 Daring Sex Toy Heists

When fingers get sticky for all the wrong reasons

We’ve all heard of dine and dash thieves who fill their bellies and run without paying for their meals. But what about a dildo and dash? It turns out, some horny and enterprising thieves have actually made sex toys their contraband of choice — and in some cases, made off with mind-boggling amounts of merchandise. Here are three daring sex toy heists that show the lengths people will go to for erotic pleasure — and a whole lot of cash.

Cumming Back for Seconds

Once clearly wasn’t enough for the thieves who stole 30,000 condoms from the Las Vegas warehouse of intimate lifestyle product company LELO. One day after successfully making out with the latex loot, the thieves came back for seconds — in this case, over $6,000 worth of sex toys. Specifically, they had an itch they wanted to scratch with dozens of butt plugs and kegel beads. After the heist made local news, the company posted about the theft on their blog, taking a lighthearted approach to the situation.

“Criminal geniuses at work. Smashing the rear window of their own car to shovel in booty faster is a particularly efficient touch,” the post read. “Saves on the air conditioning too. One hopes that they stole those condoms, got into a time machine, went back 18–25 years (by the looks of it), and presented them all to their own fathers.”

“One hopes that they stole those condoms, got into a time machine…and presented them all to their own fathers.” — LELO

Exhibition Ecstasy

After a successful product launch at the Venus-Berlin exhibition, Fun Toys London representatives found that much of their stash had been stolen when they momentarily stepped away from the boxes the sex toys were packed in. In fact, the thieves got $60,000 of merchandise, leaving behind some brochures and bags in their wake. But they weren’t finished: When Marco Tortoni, a Fun Toys representative, went to speak to the police about the theft, he returned to find yet another four boxes of sex toys had also been stolen. According to him, “What is amusing is that not a single tester went missing during the days of the exhibition.” What wasn’t amusing to the company was the seeming indifference displayed by the organizers of the event. A company spokesperson claimed that the Venus-Berlin exhibition had failed to provide “a record from video cameras and any other help in the course of investigation.”

Getting Their Rocks Off

Thieves in the United Kingdom made off with $1,000,000 of sex toys that were stored in a truck at a rest stop. The toys, which were supposed to be delivered to Rocks Off Ltd., were taken between 1:00 and 6:30 in the morning, but the company was not clear about which products had been stolen in the heist. What was clear, however, was that Rocks Off was still dedicated to filling its customer orders. “We have had to go back into production and advise our customers of the situation,” the company explained in a statement. “All of our customers have been extremely supportive in what has been a very difficult situation.”

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