When Sean A was working in Reading as a journalist, he found himself inside a C-list celebrity house because, as he puts it, "the front door was open". He wandered through the house calling out the celebrity’s name and, having wound up in the bathroom, heard a noise downstairs, panicked, and for reasons he has never been adequately able to explain, snatched a pair of celebrity tea-stained Y-fronts that were draped over a washing basket, before hot-footing it back to the car.

With celebrity pants safety nestled in the glove compartment, he forgot all about the incident until a few weeks later, when his car’s sunroof developed a leak. Casting around for something to plug the hole, he stuffed the moulding briefs into the sunroof frame, where they bizarrely remained as a topic of conversation for the next two years.

Later, he got pulled over by the police for a dodgy tail light, and when the PC peered in through the passenger window he was met with a pair of stained pants dangling from the roof.