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March 10, 2006
Maximum Rigidity
This criminal was spared prison, but in in way, he's still doing hard time:
A court sentenced a burglar to jail but then spared him prison - because he suffers from a permanent erection.Maurice Baumann has been prescribed medication, acupuncture and even loose trousers to help with his problem.
Baumann, 32, was sentenced to a year's jail for burgling homes in the British Army garrison town of Bielefeld in Germany.
But he escaped prison after entering hospital as an "emergency case" for severe priapism.
Yet even after a week's treatment, doctors admitted they could only get him down to "half mast".
... Baumann's clinical report explained: "He has erections of maximum rigidity." [Daily Record]
The headline was something else: Rigid Robber's Stiff Sentence.
The Sun had a good one too: He's a hardened criminal.
The newspaper has an excellent picture of the unfortunate (?) man, captioned "Bulging Burglar".
Baumann's condition is truly ironic, as he can hardly be regarded as an upstanding citizen.
Posted by aisehman at March 10, 2006 08:13 PM
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A contractor once advertised his firm as Unlimited Erection Construction Corporation, "I erect structural works 24 hours round a crew of three shifts." Would working as a gigolo be better than stealing other people's stuff? Better to be a contractor. Talk about elective or erective unemployment.
Posted by: thienshingvui at March 11, 2006 09:12 AM