This is either the ultimate desperation or a case of one too many movies, The Times reports:

A man has been sent to prison after he attempted to force his way into a female colleague’s life by breaking into her house and framing her husband for downloading child pornography.

Ilkka Karttunen, who was born in Finland, became obsessed by a co-worker and hoped that he could forge a relationship with her if he could break up her marriage, jurors at Basildon Crown Court were told.  He sneaked into her home in Southend, Essex, while she and her family were asleep and used the family computer to download images of children being abused, the jury was told.

Kartunnen, 48, who denied charges of harrassment, perverting the course of justice and making indecent images of children between December 2008 and March 2009, then stole the computer’s hard drive and sent it anonymously to police with a note stating that it had been taken from his victim’s address.

So…….he was hoping the cops would come to the house of his co-worker and arrest her innocent husband so he could move on in, literally.  Unfortunately when police officers came to his house for questioning they found a copy of the hard drive in question, photos from inside their children’s room and even a copy of the husband’s calendar.  He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

You should not be able to top this story, but what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to get a date? Or not.

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