A university lab technician who robbed a lingerie store was sentenced to two years in jail after a jury rejected his claim that he had committed the theft under the mistaken impression that he was a magical female elf from the future named Buho.
Robert Boyd, 45, stole two sets of bras, panties and stockings and garter belts from the high-end Orchid lingerie shop while dressed in a blonde Harpo Marx wig, glasses and a beanie hat. He claimed that he had been unable to tell the difference between real life and a fantasy role-playing game in which he had been involved.
But a jury voted 10-2 that Boyd knew exactly what he was doing, and a judge sentenced him despite his defense lawyer’s pleas that he had already suffered enough through public ridicule.
