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Topic: Guys would be ok with $40K a year for this? (Read 2112 times)
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Gutboy Barrelhouse
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/23/implant.wuit.ap/index.htmlPROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- A former handyman has won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a penile implant that gave him a 10-year erection. Charles "Chick" Lennon, 68, received the steel and plastic implant in 1996, about two years before Viagra went on the market. The Dura-II is designed to allow impotent men to position the penis upward for sex, then lower it. But Lennon could not position his penis downward. He said he could no longer hug people, ride a bike, swim or wear bathing trunks because of the pain and embarrassment. He has become a recluse and is uncomfortable being around his grandchildren, his lawyer said. In 2004, a jury awarded him $750,000. A judge called that excessive and reduced it to $400,000. On Friday, the Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed that award in a ruling that turned on a procedural matter. "I don't know any man who for any amount of money would want to trade and take my client's life," said Jules D'Alessandro, Lennon's attorney. "He's not a whole person." A lawyer representing both Dura-II manufacturer Dacomed Corp. and the company's insurer declined to comment. Dacomed maintained that nothing was wrong with the implant. The implant consists of a series of plastic plates strung together with steel surgical wire, almost like a roll of wrapped coins. Springs press against the plates, creating enough surface tension to simulate an erection, D'Alessandro said. Lennon cannot get the implant removed because of health problems, including open-heart surgery, his lawyer said. Impotence drugs could not help Lennon even if he were able to have the device taken out, because tissue had be to removed for it to be implanted. Dacomed was later acquired by a California company whose sales dropped when Viagra was introduced on the market. The company filed for bankruptcy the following year.
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SurfD
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The implant consists of a series of plastic plates strung together with steel surgical wire, almost like a roll of wrapped coins. Springs press against the plates, creating enough surface tension to simulate an erection, D'Alessandro said. The idea of doing something like that to my penis to get an erection, no matter HOW desperate fo sex i might get, is simply too far out there for me to contemplate. |
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Righ
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If he lives another ten years then its down to $20K a year, and so on. Since he's living as a recluse, I suppose you could say that he's still a handyman, and feeling a stroke hard up.
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Cyrrex
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Remote controlled wang AND 400k in the bank? Not too shabby.
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Big Gulp
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It can't be positioned downwards, but does that mean it has to stick straight out? Can't he just do the old trick I used to do when I was a teenager and a stiff breeze would get me hard and just position the damned thing so it's straight up against his gut/groin? Hell, you can use your belt to keep it from straying. It doesn't hurt, and it seems like that would be more comfortable than straight down anyway, since a penis is meant to angle upward when erect rather than down.
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« Last Edit: June 26, 2006, 07:04:10 AM by Big Gulp »
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Sky
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I wonder where that money is coming from, if the company went under.
I wish judges wouldn't reward people for being stupid fucking assholes. A penis crane? It went bad, really? Moron.
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tazelbain
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HaemishM
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It doesn't hurt, and it seems like that would be more comfortable than straight down anyway, since a penis is meant to angle upward when erect rather than down.
It hurts some folks to be strapped upwards. Maybe he's one of those guys. |
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WayAbvPar
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Having to do a handstand every time he takes a piss is worth at least $40k a year.
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Broughden
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The idea of having anything which remotely involves steel surgical wire inside of my penus, comes across as a bad idea.
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OcellotJenkins
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Having to do a handstand every time he takes a piss is worth at least $40k a year.
That is sig worthy material right there. |
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