Rumbled! This was not the first time Mr Davis had been found masturbating with a cucumber in a library (Picture: Toronto Police Service)

A judge has sentenced a man who was seen masturbating in a public library while holding a cucumber – and it wasn’t for the first time.

Fredrick Tennyson Davis, 49, was at the Agincourt Library in Toronto, Canada, on 31 May when he was spotted by staff.

Library employees recognised the man from the last time he had been caught in flagrante delicto with a salad item after he was seen carrying out the same lewd act in the library back in April.

Constable David Hopkinson of the Toronto Police Service revealed that subtlety was not Mr Davis’ strong suit.


‘On April 7, he sits down and a 26-year-old woman sits next to him and he opens up his laptop,’ Constable Hopkinson told the Sun News Network.

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The man then started masturbating with one hand while clutching a cucumber with the other, Hopkinson said.



Mr Davis was charged with an indecent act and two counts of failure to comply with probation. York Regional Police Constable Andy Pattenden revealed that Mr Davis was charged with a similar act back in June 2012 at a different library.

It isn’t known whether Mr Davis recycles the cucumbers or uses a fresh one each time.

The judge handed down a suspended sentence and 12 months probation to the man.

When pressed as to whether Mr Davis had posed a threat to library staff, Constable Hopkinson remarked:

‘I don’t think he had any free hands to make a threat.’