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)
Replacement penis?
Could’ve used thor.
“A Mason County man who lost his penis to flesh-eating bacteria in prison …”
Was the bacteria named Jerome? That vindictive bitch!
More to the story. Not just bad outcome – this was really very shocking malpractice.
http://www.prisonlegalnews.org/(S(qnljhuy1ls2etpua5fzyrorc))/127_displayNews.aspx <—-one link with more details.
Sarah-
No, just Government-run
Mr. Manning?
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.
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.
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.
I forgot, h/t to Churchill.
“Is that a thigh in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
“No, its a thigh.”
Was McCain checked for this condition?
Enumclaw
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.
Ouch, Ella. Breaking a leg over and over? Yeeh. Wonder if he was evaluated by psychiatrists.
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.
So, are the prisoners now being terrorized on full-moon nights by a shambling zombie penis mumbling, “Prostaaaaaatessss…”?
#17. Great – thanks. Talk about nightmare fodder…
“Replacement penis”
Oh, gee thanks. I think mine just crawled back up inside.
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Which for Charlie was the Democratic Congress.
Which was impotent and flacid.
And couldn’t manage to fuck anything but us.
Long way to go to get a thrill up your leg.
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?
Good-Time Charlie is reported to have said: “In the words of Willie Nelson, I have outlived my dick.”.
– 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.
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.
It should be noted that the defining expert witness for the defense was Dick Tracy…
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.
Or was it Dick Sweat?
Do you want to be the mommy or the daddy?
It would probably look a lot like the one for testicular torsion at the end of “Are You There God, It’s Me, Dean”.