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Another Perspective
Too Crazy, Too Sexy
It’s been that way lately.
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else,” quipped Will Rogers.
It’s been that way lately.
With a crazed look on his face and his country descending into chaos, Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi stepped out of his golf cart in Tripoli the other day twirling a big umbrella over his head and wearing a mad-cap hat with big furry ear flaps, a piece of head gear you’ll never see on the fashion runways of Paris.
He looked like Mary Poppins on an escape run from Shutter Island.
The protesters, declared Gaddafi, were “greasy rats” (not spotless and sparkling rats), “cockroaches,” and “drug-fueled mice” (not teetotal mice).
In other news, there’s allegedly a pill out there that turns cautious and regular run-of-the-mill people into wild gay gamblers.
Didier Jambart, a previously-boring and previously-straight 51-year-old married father-of-two in France, claims he took the drug Requip (ropinirole) for Parkinson’s and ended up erotically unveiling himself on the World Wide Web and becoming a gay sex addict and a compulsive gambler, or a compulsive gay and an addicted gambler, either way.
Jambart is suing his neurologist and GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company that produces Requip, for $610,000.
Mr. Jambart’s attorney says his client became a “compulsive gay sex addict and began exposing himself on the Internet and cross-dressing,” and then tried to kill himself three or more times.
No insensitivity intended, but it appears that Jambart was no better at ending it all than he was at cards and numbers.
Additionally, Mr. Jambart’s newly-developed and Requip-induced wild and crazy antics allegedly led to his being demoted at his defense industry job and becoming a rape victim on one or more occasions.
And more, on top of being hooked on gay sex and Joker Poker, all the family money has now allegedly disappeared, with Jambart supposedly taking his household’s savings down to zero via Internet gambling and then stealing to fund his habit, with both the betting and stealing the fault of Requip, according to the lawsuit.
This caused me to remember Gloria Sykes, the 23-year-old church lady who created a big stir back in 1970 in San Francisco by claiming that she became rather like a nymphomaniac after being knocked against a pole on a rough ride in a cable car.
The self-described devout and previously non-frisky Lutheran from Dearborn, Michigan, said what followed the bump was insatiability and 50 new and can-do boyfriends within five days, and some 100-plus boyfriends before the blow of the bump completely wore off.
She sued for $500,000 and was awarded, after 44 taped transcripts of a hypnotized Sykes were played in court, $50,000 by a jury of eight women and four men.
About the Author
Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise and an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.
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Melvin| 3.1.11 @ 8:12AM
There is a cure for this affliction. Tort Reform, the much needed vaccine for frivolous lawyers and their lawsuits.
Alan Brooks| 3.1.11 @ 4:40PM
50 guys within five days?? she must hung out with bikers.
Roy D.| 3.1.11 @ 9:41AM
I went into CVS in Houston, bought a pack of peanut butter crackers, took them to the bus stop to munch on until the bus arrived, and the next thing I know I am in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with no identification and no money.
Appears to me that the snack crackers from CVS were loaded with some hallucinogenic drug.
I kid you not when I say that I am convinced CVS is spiking their snacks to get us hooked on drugs!
God help us all!
KyMouse| 3.1.11 @ 10:14AM
Roy, were they the peanut butter on bright-orange cheese-flavored crackers????
That's what turned me into a Ky mouse! Stay away from them!
Roy D. | 3.1.11 @ 10:58AM
Yes sir, KyMouse,
Those crackers were bright orange, but filled with peanut butter--it's what we call "nabs" down here in the South.
All I remember is biting into one of those crunchy orange nabs, and suddenly little pink and blue unicorns were floating up and down like carousel characters, and the music was ethereal-- very soft oom pah pah, oom pah pah, oom pah pah, oom pah pah--never heard such beautiful music.
It was heavenly! How I long to those lovely strains again.
Ben Stein| 3.1.11 @ 11:05AM
Roy, would you mind sending me a box of those nabs.
Ben Stein
1436 N Rodeo Dr,
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Ethel Harper| 3.1.11 @ 11:07AM
Well, I've never! This takes the cake!
Oolong| 3.1.11 @ 9:28PM
Ben, shame on you !
Roscoe| 3.3.11 @ 2:59PM
Better make it a jumbo-sized box. From the indications of his most recent effort on TAS, BS is badly in need of a whole stack of those nabs.
holmegm| 3.1.11 @ 11:17AM
It's not unusual for altered mental states to involve bizarre changes in behavior, including sexual behavior. Try googling "bipolar mania".
It's also not unusual for medications to trigger altered mental states. For example, antidepressants can trigger mania in people with bipolar disorder (if given alone without mood stabilizer medications).
Just trying to give you some perspective. I know you were going for the laughs, but I think you'd be pretty pissed off if a medication your doctor gave you triggered a bizarre spree of behavior.
Grzmlyk| 3.1.11 @ 11:49AM
My mother's breast milk turned me into an underachiever. By my lawywer's calculation, had I not been subjected to tainted breast milk, my earnings today would number in the billions.
Who's gonna give me my money? Believe you me, my lawyer and I will leave no stone unturned to see that social justice is done, and that I get paid.
I'm loving Jambart. Too bad Obama (peace be upon him) has another term to serve - I smell the ideal Democrat nominee (and please, don't make me laugh that Jambart wasn't born in America, those of you capitalist squares who think the Constitution has any relevance except as expensive bird cage liner for the left's parrots).
Hell, if Jambart decides to have gender-reassignment surgery - which American taxpayers really ought to pay for because they're such bigots - I say, scrap Barack The Destroyer - there's NO WAY Jambart could lose!
james wilson| 3.1.11 @ 12:44PM
Obviously, the only humane thing to do is remove all medications specific to Parkinson's. Because we care. Those greedy drug companies don't care. They are only interested in the profit left over after bamboozling the FDA, our loving public servants, with 900 million.
Rich Rostrom| 3.1.11 @ 5:39PM
There have been other cases of drugs with drastic and unexpected psychological effects. L-dopa (the dopamine-based Parkinson's Disease treatment) has caused a few patients to develop uncontrollable hypersexual impulses. Some of them refused further treatment, because the resulting behavior was worse than the disease.
It's real, people, not a tort lawyer's fantasy.
And brain trauma can leads to all kinds of bizarre behavioral changes. Neuroscientist Oliver Sacks has chronicled many of them.
For instance, a middle-aged cardiac surgeon was struck by lightning, and suddenly developed a passionate interest in classical piano music. He listened to piano recordings several hours a day, and took lessons to become a pianist himself. All this with no precedent in his life.
HKidd | 3.1.11 @ 6:33PM
I can't believe I read this article. If I had either one of the afflictions the folks had I might just forget about it. Although the comment from Stein made me laugh..
zinka milanov| 3.2.11 @ 3:07AM
I seem to remember that the poor lady hit by the trolley in SF was noted in Esquire's dubious achievements under the caption "All Aboard, or Bang Bang Went the Trolley." Way off the topics, but maybe someone remembers that in the late 60s there was a Wall Street secretary in NYC with a large chest who for a short period was causing riots among the money men when she would come walking bouncing up out of the subway. Wonder what ever became of her?
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