However, the cops in Penticton, B.C., Canada, found it hard to believe his story about an alleged attack at the hands of three unknown men.

They found the spray pattern “was consistent with the alleged victim carrying his own can of bear spray and it went off unintentionally”.

After the accident, the man apparently peeled off his clothes and began “vigorously using his shirt to scrub his genitals with homogenised milk”, a police spokesperson said.

The victim became un-cooperative with police once the nature of his attack became known, The Canadian Press reports.