A man dedicated 12 years of his life to hiding sex toys around America and Canada to make people laugh. He explained how he came to own 957 sex toys after working in an import warehouse for a summer before starting his graduate job.
The warehouse was used as a stop off point for imported goods, dealing with huge shipments from across the world every day. Taking to Reddit, the man said: "I had just graduated college and was working at an import warehouse during the summer before my real job started in the fall.
"My job was to make sure the pallets of goods that came in were loaded onto the right trucks. One day we got a delivery that had been held up in customs [for two years]. The company that ordered the shipment was no longer in business. We held onto the goods all summer but no one claimed them."
On his last day, he opened up the box to see what was inside after spending the entire summer wondering what it could be.
"I open up the pallet and there are boxes and boxes of sex toys from China - in total, 960 sex toys," he added.
"Everyone on the floor was dying of laughter.
"My boss wanted them out of there and I thought I could make some money selling them on eBay so I offered to take them."
After loading them all into his 1994 Mustang, he started listing them online hoping to cash in on the free goods.
However, this didn't work out quite to his plan.
He said: "I'm not sure if it was because of the financial crisis but the demand just wasn’t there. After months, I only sold like three and made $30 (£24) after shipping."
Not sure what to do with them, he planned to throw them away until his friend came up with a 'better' idea.
"He suggested we place them on neighbours' lawns instead," he said. "So after one night of drinking, we walked through the neighbourhood and put them on 12 or so lawns.
"I saw one guy's reaction the next day and it was awesome - so genuinely confused.
"I decided to hold on to them. I put a few in my trunk and anytime I saw a cool place to put one I would plop it down.
"I live on the East Coast but travelled a lot for work. I would always bring a toy with me.
"Right when Covid started, I realised I was down to my last few and I thought it would be appropriate to leave them at hospitals.
"I hope I brought joy to peoples lives."
When making his confession on Reddit, he said he hid most of them in New York and New England - but spread them out as far as New Mexico and Canada.
He believes there's "lots still in the wild" waiting to be found by unsuspecting residents or tourists one day.
Commenting on his post, one user said: "You're the absolutely chaotic weirdness that most people's lives are missing. The hero we didn't know we needed."
Another user added: "I'm in New England - I know what I'm going to do on my Sunday."
A third user said: "You got to admire this man's commitment."
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