Frightened neighbours called 999 when they thought they saw Ian Poulton, 33, with a pistol tucked into the waistband of his trousers in May.
Officers rushed to the quiet street in Hadley’s Hall Gardens area, near Telford, arriving minutes later armed with machine guns and accompanied by a specialist dog unit.
Other residents on the street were astonished by the arrival of the “Robocops”, but the operation descended into farce when they seized the weapon, only to discover he had in fact been “brandishing” a silver sex aid.
Jailing Poulton on Wednesday, Judge Robin Onions said: “It was clearly not a gun, be it imitation or real. It was an entirely innocent object. [But] it was the defendant’s intention to deceive.
“Witnesses thought it was a firearm so he has to take the consequences.”
Speaking at the time of the incident, a neighbour said: “I think this is what you might call a classic cock-up.
“Nobody could believe what they were seeing when these armed Robocops turned up on the street from nowhere. Hadley can be a tough area but it’s not that bad, surely?

It's a funny story in itself, but Robin Onions? That's just the icing on the cake

Maybe they were worried that he had played Grand Theft Auto and thought that he was going to club someone to death with his dildo?

Saint's Row 3 actually /geek.

Saint's Row 3 actually /geek.

I wonder if he lives alone.