Ouch... that whole replacement penis thing sounds questionable
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24680102-401,00.html
Charlie Manning paid $500,000 for losing penis in jail
From correspondents in Seattle
The Daily Telegraph
November 20, 2008 01:17pm
Prison inmate gets flesh-eating bug
Loses penis and one testicle
Gains $500,000 and a new one
A FORMER prison inmate has been awarded $500,000 after his manhood was consumed by flesh-eating bacteria while he was behind bars.
Charlie Manning, 61, was serving a 13-month stretch at Stafford Creek prison in Washington state, US, for a boozy fight when he became sick, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The prison doctor wrongly diagnosed his symptoms as an allergic reaction to medication.
Turned out he had necrotising fasciitis - and the bacteria destroyed his penis and one testicle.
"It's been a nightmare," Manning said.
"I figured I should settle for what I could get because I just want it behind me. It's unreal. It's like something from Mars."
A prison spokesman admitted: "Not all medical judgments - whether performed in a prison or at a doctor's office - are infallible."
The Seattle Times said surgeons made a replacement penis with skin from Manning's thigh.
