Man, I’d love to see the PSA for this one.
From the AP:
A Mason County man who lost his penis to flesh-eating bacteria in prison has won a $300,000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.The 61-year-old man, Charlie Manning, told The Seattle Times on Monday that he settled because he wants the ordeal to be over. The department said in a statement it settled to save the cost of litigation.
Manning was serving time in 2004 for threatening a neighbor. When he became ill at the Stafford Creek prison near Aberdeen it was diagnosed as a reaction to cold medicine.
By the time Manning was airlifted to a Seattle hospital with an internal abscess, doctors had to remove several pounds of flesh from his pelvic region.
Surgeons made a replacement penis with skin from his thigh.
It’s likely that there’s a moral in this story somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna go digging around for it.
– Though were I this dude’s neighbor? I’d probably invest in a cast iron codpiece and a quick load shotgun.
(h/t TerryH)
Comment by urthshu on 11/18 @ 4:08 pm #
Replacement penis?
Could’ve used thor.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/18 @ 4:16 pm #
“A Mason County man who lost his penis to flesh-eating bacteria in prison …”
Was the bacteria named Jerome? That vindictive bitch!
Comment by SarahW on 11/18 @ 4:18 pm #
More to the story. Not just bad outcome – this was really very shocking malpractice.
Comment by SarahW on 11/18 @ 4:18 pm #
http://www.prisonlegalnews.org/(S(qnljhuy1ls2etpua5fzyrorc))/127_displayNews.aspx <—-one link with more details.
Comment by urthshu on 11/18 @ 4:23 pm #
Sarah-
No, just Government-run
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/18 @ 4:26 pm #
Mr. Manning?
Comment by SarahW on 11/18 @ 4:31 pm #
Prisoners get an extra dose of callous disreguard, I think. Reminds me of a medically dissimilar but similarly shockingly botched nearly-killed the guy misdiagnosis of malignant syndrome in a Parkinson’s patient.
Comment by Ella on 11/18 @ 4:37 pm #
To play devil’s advocate, a lot of prisoners cause their own medical problems to try to get reduced sentences or to stay in the hospital wing rather than the general population. My grandmother worked with one prisoner who repeatedly broke his own leg in order to, alternately, claim brutality or try to get released early for medical reasons. They thought a couple of times they were going to have to amputate, but as soon as he was almost well enough to go back to the general population, he’d slam his leg in a door or beat it against a wall to go back to the hospital. Other ones she worked with would do things like quit taking their insulin to try to get into the hospital.
All that to say, it can be hard to determine, with hundreds of inmates, which are doing it to themselves and which one needs treatment now or to care too much about rushing for treatment for every ailment.
But the several pounds of rotting flesh are usually a clue that it’s time to go to the doctor.
Comment by Dan Are on 11/18 @ 4:38 pm #
If he were your neighbor, he might ask you to USE the shotgun. No check could provide a condom of solace.
I’m rethinking the assisted suicide thing, with nether region clenched.
Comment by Dan Are on 11/18 @ 4:44 pm #
I forgot, h/t to Churchill.
Comment by urthshu on 11/18 @ 4:48 pm #
“Is that a thigh in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
“No, its a thigh.”
Comment by dre on 11/18 @ 5:02 pm #
Was McCain checked for this condition?
Comment by Fat Man on 11/18 @ 5:31 pm #
Enumclaw
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/18 @ 5:32 pm #
Of course, I would like to think that this prisoner (and evryone who has read this) just saw a very good reason why not to get arrested.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 11/18 @ 5:34 pm #
Ouch, Ella. Breaking a leg over and over? Yeeh. Wonder if he was evaluated by psychiatrists.
Comment by Ella on 11/18 @ 6:06 pm #
JohnAnnArbor,
Heh. That’s the truth. He wasn’t a particularly nice – or sane – man. He was convicted of a number of felonies including, IIRC, torture, rape, arson, and theft. He was evaluated several times and diagnosed as a sociopath.
Comment by McGehee on 11/18 @ 6:30 pm #
So, are the prisoners now being terrorized on full-moon nights by a shambling zombie penis mumbling, “Prostaaaaaatessss…”?
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 11/18 @ 7:53 pm #
#17. Great – thanks. Talk about nightmare fodder…
Comment by mojo on 11/18 @ 8:43 pm #
“Replacement penis”
Oh, gee thanks. I think mine just crawled back up inside.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 9:25 pm #
“Replacement penisâ€Â
Which for Charlie was the Democratic Congress.
Which was impotent and flacid.
And couldn’t manage to fuck anything but us.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 11/18 @ 9:25 pm #
Long way to go to get a thrill up your leg.
Comment by daleyrocks on 11/18 @ 10:07 pm #
I wonder whether thor has been checking for this with all that strange pooter he claims to have been banging. Can you get it from imaginary pooter I wonder?
Comment by twolaneflash on 11/18 @ 10:13 pm #
Good-Time Charlie is reported to have said: “In the words of Willie Nelson, I have outlived my dick.”.
Comment by lee bh on 11/18 @ 10:34 pm #
– Though were I this dude’s neighbor? I’d probably invest in a cast iron codpiece and a quick load shotgun.
I don’t know, I think if you lose your junk to flesh eating bacteria while incarcerated, you get one free murder. It should be a rule or something.
Comment by daleyrocks on 11/18 @ 10:45 pm #
lee bh – Or in the children’s books you start writing, like Tookie, you could talk about what happens in jail – getting your salad tossed, losing your junk, getting a boyfriend, smoking crack, sort of like real life, only different.
Comment by JWebb on 11/18 @ 11:58 pm #
It should be noted that the defining expert witness for the defense was Dick Tracy…
Comment by Cowtipper on 11/19 @ 6:27 am #
Comment by JWebb on 11/18 @ 11:58 pm #
It should be noted that the defining expert witness for the defense was Dick Tracy…
I thought it was Dick Trickle.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/19 @ 8:29 am #
Or was it Dick Sweat?
Comment by bigbooner on 11/19 @ 9:13 am #
Do you want to be the mommy or the daddy?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/19 @ 1:47 pm #
It would probably look a lot like the one for testicular torsion at the end of “Are You There God, It’s Me, Dean”.