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William and Tonya Parker filed a $10,000 lawsuit in December against the Holiday Inn of Midland, Michigan, after an employee walked into their room without warning while they were having sex on their wedding night. The couple said they now suffer posttraumatic stress syndrome and that their sex life has become dysfunctional. A Holiday Inn spokesperson said the intrusion was an accident and that the couple should have hung the Do Not Disturb sign on their door.
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In January former Northwestern University professor Olan Rand filed an employment discrimination complaint claiming he was wrongfully fired. Rand was let go after he pleaded guilty to the theft of $33,000; he had continued to collect his mother’s social-security checks in their joint account for five years after her death in 1981. In his petition he claims the university should not have discriminated against him since he suffered from the disability of “extreme procrastination behavior.”
Writing in a 1992 medical journal, two doctors in Bristol, England, reported the case of a 53-year-old man who came to a hospital emergency room “alert and oriented” but with two holes in his skull–the result of a suicide attempt with an electric drill. The doctors’ research on other instances of “deliberate self-harm” by “craniocerebral” penetration produced accounts of people who had used nails (four reports), ice picks (two), keys (five), pencils (three), and chopsticks (six).
