Oh, my. After I laughed out loud for half a second, I thought about the horror of living like that. The poor bastard.

Yeah, it's horrible.

I know it's not the same thing, but how many women get awarded money when their boob jobs go wrong and one nipple is pointing to the sky?

Yes. Poor bastard. But if he'd've gone out, he'd be popular at parties. i dunno, what am i sposed to say? or are you just happy to...blah blah.

I used to work for a firm where one guy specialised in medical negligence, and he had a similar case, which had turned out somewhat badly for the patient because (somehow) his knob end had exploded.

The office was divided - on the initial telling (before we had time to really consider it and empathise) all the women thought it was hilarious whilst the men thought there wasn't enough money in the world to compensate him.

but how many women get awarded money when their boob jobs go wrong and one nipple is pointing to the sky?

As mine both point towards the ground, I would be delighted with even one of them pointing skywards.

My first impression was how weird the whole thing is to begin with. Springs? To point it up and then down? What, like an umbrella? But on revision-poor guy. I can see how he'd end up a recluse.

It's a good thing Viagra came along before the post-9/11 security measures in airports. People used to get annoyed when they had to demonstrate the operation of their digital cameras for the security guards... THIS would be appalling.

*shudder*

If you read further you get the part about how it can't be removed and even if it could it wouldn't work. How friggin' sad.

I'm kind of surprised that the judge reduced the award, but so much information has been left out. Why did it misfunction? Bad mechanics in the product? Bad implantation? Or something the guy did that messed it up? This Pubmed abstract seems to indicate that the implant is/was pretty satisfactory.

At any rate, I think his lawyer was pretty much right: "I don't know any man who for any amount of money would want to trade and take my client's life."

Tissue had to be taken out to put that in there? And he did this willingly?

Also, does he have to stand on his head to wee or does he just stand in the shower making a nice fountain?

" He has become a recluse and is uncomfortable being around his grandchildren."

:(