You know that pharmaceutical commercial that says call your doctor if an erection lasts for longer than four hours? Well, it's four hours and not four days. According to Curtis Killman of the Tulsa World, a $5 million civil right lawsuit alleges that a 32-year-old former prison inmate in Oklahoma developed a painful erection that lasted 91 hours (or five hours short of four days), didn't receive proper medical care in time despite pleading with the prison staff, and now has permanent injury.
It all apparently started for Dustin Lance on December 15, 2016, when, while at the Pittsburg County jail in Oklahoma, he swallowed an unidentified pill given to him by another inmate. Of course, the words "swallowed" and "unidentified pill" should never go with each other, even if you are Neo in The Matrix. Allegedly, the next day he informed the prison staff that he was suffering “unbearable pain” because of a resulting continuous erection but received mockery rather than any medical treatment until December 19, when he was finally transported to McAlester Regional Hospital.
Based on the Tulsa World article, it is not yet clear what permanent injury Lance suffered as a consequence, and there seems to be some confusion about his current health status. Killman wrote: "County officials filed a motion Tuesday that seeks to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that the case is improperly being brought by a dead person," but, "Jon Williford, an attorney who filed the lawsuit, said in an email to the Tulsa World that Lance had not died and attributed the reference to his client’s demise to a 'scrivener’s error.'" That detail probably needs to be cleared up sometime soon.
Source: forbes
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