parappadrapper
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Depending on who you are, this is a story that is either too sad for words or a prime example of how the karmic boomerang will come back and bash you right across the face the very first chance it gets. Only you can decide which group you belong to.
Our tragic hero/karmic-boomerang victim is "otto," a disabled man living in the city of Tilburg, in the Netherlands. Otto discovered somewhere along the way that sex helped to ease his pain without medication. So, he figured, the local municipal council should grant him a monthly sex allowance, for its healing medicinal properties.
Now, this might seem like a profoundly wacky idea, especially to Americans. But in the Netherlands you can walk down certain streets you can see women in windows posing in lingerie-and they're not selling nighties. So otto actually got a judge to buy his line of reasoning, and in 1997, after a seven-year legal struggle, Otto's local government was ordered to shell out the equivalent of about $125 a month for Otto's sexual healing.
Ah, but here's where the karmic boomerang comes around for the smack down. In August 2003, De Telegraaf reported that Otto was having an extremely difficult time with his "therapy." It's not that prostitutes were hard to find, it's just that none of them was willing to give Otto a receipt, which he requires in order to get reimbursed for his adventures. You see, if prostitutes provide a receipt, then the income is taxable, because the government has a record of (ahem) "services rendered." Prostitutes, who are in it for the money, prefer whenever possible not to split that money with the government.
So that creates an interesting catch-22 for Otto: the government pays for his sex, he can't get any. That karmic boomerang, It's a painful thing.
*Uncle John's presents Book of the Dumb : p.g 46 "The hurtingest man in the world"
Our tragic hero/karmic-boomerang victim is "otto," a disabled man living in the city of Tilburg, in the Netherlands. Otto discovered somewhere along the way that sex helped to ease his pain without medication. So, he figured, the local municipal council should grant him a monthly sex allowance, for its healing medicinal properties.
Now, this might seem like a profoundly wacky idea, especially to Americans. But in the Netherlands you can walk down certain streets you can see women in windows posing in lingerie-and they're not selling nighties. So otto actually got a judge to buy his line of reasoning, and in 1997, after a seven-year legal struggle, Otto's local government was ordered to shell out the equivalent of about $125 a month for Otto's sexual healing.
Ah, but here's where the karmic boomerang comes around for the smack down. In August 2003, De Telegraaf reported that Otto was having an extremely difficult time with his "therapy." It's not that prostitutes were hard to find, it's just that none of them was willing to give Otto a receipt, which he requires in order to get reimbursed for his adventures. You see, if prostitutes provide a receipt, then the income is taxable, because the government has a record of (ahem) "services rendered." Prostitutes, who are in it for the money, prefer whenever possible not to split that money with the government.
So that creates an interesting catch-22 for Otto: the government pays for his sex, he can't get any. That karmic boomerang, It's a painful thing.
*Uncle John's presents Book of the Dumb : p.g 46 "The hurtingest man in the world"
