Customer at sex shop locks self in handcuffs

ORANGE -- Local police had to break a man out of handcuffs Thursday.

Assistant Police Chief Ed Koether said that shortly after 3 p.m. they were called to the VIP store on the Post Road. He said a male customer, who he did not immediately identify, had been in the store trying on handcuffs when he locked himself in a pair.

Koether said store employees were unable to get the customer free and called first the Fire Department and then the Police Department. He continued that officers tried several different keys but were unable to unlock the restraints and eventually they had to be cut off with a pair of bolt cutters.

Although the sex shop has a variety of restraints for sale including fur-lined ones, Koether said the customer had locked himself in a pair similar to those carried by police officers.

Koether said he didn't know whether the customer had to pay for the broken handcuffs.

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