TALK to most experienced cops anywhere around the world and they’ll tell you they’ve seen some pretty strange things.

People commit crimes for many different reasons. They’re drunk, on drugs, need money, are bored, they’re disturbed — and some are just very, very strange.

It was revealed yesterday that the Boston Tickler is in fact real and still on the loose. Here are a few other crims whose crimes have to be seen (from a distance) to be believed.

THE SWISS CHEESE PERVERT

A town in the United States has been on alert not for a murderer or an arsonist, but a man with a strange fetish for Swiss cheese.

Police allege 42-year-old Christopher Pagano drove around Mayfair, Pennsylvania exposing himself to women and offering money for them to put Swiss cheese on his crotch.

It’s possible he has been active for some time. One Mayfair woman says she was approached via a dating website by a man who also had a very strange fetish for sexual activity and Swiss cheese. Surely there can’t be two of them?

THE MANNEQUIN MAN

Most people admire the clothes on a mannequin. Not Ronald. A. Dotson.

The Detroit 39-year-old has a history of stealing, or trying to steal, shop mannequins. On multiple occasions Dotson has been caught trying to make off with mannequins — the last one was dressed in a maid’s uniform — and has been to jail and had a psych evaluation to try and help him.

Nothing has worked and even his lawyer admits it’s “pretty bizarre”.

“He told his parole officer he was going to buy a mannequin so he didn’t have to do these break-ins anymore,” Detective Brendan Moore told Associated Press.

THE COW MANURE PERVERT

A fetish for cow manure. A farming family in the United Kingdom discovered, much to their horror, this is actually a real thing.

They found David Truscott, aged in his 40s, covered in mud and naked apart from one sock. Sadly, this wasn’t the first time this had happened. He’d been caught in the act before and the family even cleaned the yard to remove the mud in an effort to stop him.

It didn’t work. At his sentencing hearing, Truscott was told by a judge he had put the family through hell with his “bizarre fetish and disgusting behaviour” and needed to be jailed.

THE DRIVE-BY URINE THROWER

Everyone has heard of drive-by shootings right? They happen everywhere. But in Japan they have drive-by urine throwing.

Last year a man was arrested for slowly driving up beside a woman and hurling a cup full of his urine at her.

He was caught after being identified by security footage and was later quoted by police as saying, “the more times I did it the more I became addicted”.

Amazingly there were 19 other similar cases that month. The arrested man confessed to 10 of them but you would hope, like the police in Saitama, they were all done by the same person.

THE MAYONNAISE MAN

Possibly a copycat of the above drive-by urine thrower, but police in Japan arrested a young male who had a very strange fetish of throwing mayonnaise on women from behind.

Police don’t know how many victims there were, as they suspect many didn’t come forward but the accused admitted he’d done it to “countless” women.

He was finally caught after he squirted mayonnaise into a 15-year-old girl’s hair while they were both on an escalator.

THE ROOM SERVICE MAN

If you’re criminally inclined you can probably understand someone breaking into a hotel room. But breaking in only to order room service?

Now that’s weird. But that’s what happened in Virginia, US when Vinod Adhikary was caught ordering food from a room that was supposedly empty.

Police say these sorts of break-ins are not that uncommon and include people doing their washing in other people’s homes and even sleeping in their beds.