In December 1994, Winston Treadway stole two live lobsters from a tank in a Boston grocery store and stuffed them down his trousers.

Understandably startled, the crustaceans used their claws to lock on to his manhood and refused to let go. Doctors said the result was "a do-it-yourself vasectomy" and Treadway was told he was unlikely to ever father children. Ouch!