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I swear, baby, that's not mine!
St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Hippity hopps
"Former Ambassador Mel Sembler is dropping parts of a lawsuit against a man who rooted through his trash. In exchange, an attorney for Richard Bradbury acknowledged that his client did, in fact, search through the garbage of the former U.S. ambassador to Australia and Italy, retrieve a penile pump and try to sell it on eBay."
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From: mencken
Date: 1-Jan-2007 10:40
There's far more to this story than that which appears here. There must be. Did Ambassador Flaccid have personal knowledge that this guy had, in fact, "sifted through the trash outside [his] Treasure Island home..." since 1996? If so, perhaps our Circulatorilly Challenged Charge' should've thought twice about tossing a highly personal item such as a dick pump in the garbage. (And does our Floppy Foreign Service Officer even admit to its ownership?) Was the garbage placed on the curb? If memory serves, there's a USSC 4th Amend. case which addresses the issue of one's relinquishing a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to the contents of garbage when one places said garbage outside the curtilage of one's home. Can't remember the name or cite, though; sorry. Although the facts of that case dealt with police searches of a Defendant's garbage rather than what's at issue here, it still underscores the common sense principle that curbside garbage is not the best means for the disposal of highly personal/potentially embarrassing personal property. ANYWAY, based on the facts of the story as reported, I think the State will have a stretch if it tries to get a stalking conviction based on trash diving alone. I don't know what Florida's statute holds, but my belief is that anti-stalking statutes usually require the existence of a persistent, malicious course of conduct on the part of the Defendant which the Defendant intends, knows, or reasonably should know will place the victim in reasonable fear of assault, battery, death, etc. Going through a guy's trash for a DECADE does not rise to that level, especially when there does not appear to have been any physical harm to the alleged vics. At least that's what I'd argue. Maybe the Ambassador will have better luck civilly claiming Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress.
From: nomdeplume [NomDeGuerre]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 10:46
Sembler should have just slipped the pump into the neighbor's trashcan... Idiot.
From: reader57 [Rotten Reader]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 11:22
 I wonder if our old friend, Judge Donald Thompson, was bidding on this item from his cell. Time left 1h 44m
From: cabal [Alan Cabal]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 11:48
I note with interest that Sembler is hiding out in Israel. Is he trying to avoid extradition?
From: mrgrey
[Neil.A]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 12:20
And I thought ambassadors are dickless. Actually the Budapest american ambassador is a great friend of mine, since when i was getting my visa, i told the bitch at the counter that whatever language was good for me, spanish english, german, hungarian whatever,just be it fast, since i had been standing in line for hours. Then the ambassador comes and tries to practice his high school spanish. It was quite difficult to understand, but weve had dinner since a couple of times.
From: thedusthunter [patrick dowdy]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 12:36
I know I freak out and jump to the bidding screen whenever I see an Ambassador's old sex toys and devices for sale on ebay. I mean, come on, they're ambassadors dude!
From: reader57 [Rotten Reader]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 13:02
LOL thedusthunter. That conjured up a vision... A penis pump with the royal crest on it.
From: sandy71
[Andrew Woods]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 13:51
From: reader57 [Rotten Reader] Date: 1-Jan-2007 11:22 I wonder if our old friend, Judge Donald Thompson, was bidding on this item from his cell. Time left 1h 44m --------------- Shhhh! Shhhh! Silence in court!
From: zebrabob [zebrabobsgotabigone]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 14:05
What's so embarassing about having a penis pump? It could have been his wife's old strap-on with the vibrating vaginal and anal inserts! The ambassador should have just admitted that it was his and he threw it out because he'd become too large for it anymore! That would have shut everybody up! heh, the fact of the matter is that it was probably his son's and they're covering it up! (imagine the tension at that holiday gathering!)
From: heystoopid [ian deal]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 14:27
A somewhat limp and flaccid tale , that for sure!
From: tricky359
[Patricia]
Date: 1-Jan-2007 17:38
Oh Viagra what you've done for the world. At $10.00 a pill, I'd say it's worth every penny to avoid stuff like this Erectile dysfunction. I can't pronounce that made up disease
From: teratomarty
[Self-made man]
Date: 2-Jan-2007 06:23
It's trash, right? Once you put it on the kerb, it's fair game for any junkie who wants to come by and rootle (regardless of what Florida law has to say about it). That's an ancient tenet of trash! Make sure you shred those stupid credit card offers, and you'll be fine. That having been said, and inveterate dumpster-diver that I am, I think that finding a used penis pump would be more apt to make me go "Eww eww EWWW!" and leave off that garbage can than to retrieve same and sell it on eBay.
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 2-Jan-2007 08:23
If you don't want folks to know what's in your trash, take it elsewhere. And Bubbavirus......that looks like it hurts!
From: synesthesia [you'll figure it out]
Date: 2-Jan-2007 08:52
Hand pump: a pump powered by hand. Penis pump...?
From: smokey
[krispy]
Date: 2-Jan-2007 10:17
its like that porn star who had part of her clit cut off and sold it on ebay for 500.00 in 5 minutes. except this story sucks!!
From: savant [Common-Sense]
Date: 2-Jan-2007 14:07
Viagra -- 10 to 15 minutes after you take it you will a warm sensation come over you, especially on your face - then you feel it in your testicles...it feels like they are moving in circles - then 20 minutes after taking the pill(100mg)- you start to feel a swollen sensation in your eyes, (the best way I can describe it), your vision is sensitized to light, your eyes can start watering, you start feeling like you want to start smiling for no reason at all, but at the same time you start to worry, "what the heck is this pill doing to me?" A slight worry......... Then 30 minutes after taking the pill you start feeling warm all over and you still have the with fuzzy vision, (just slightly fuzzy), but you are well aware that you feeling different than you did before you took the pill. You start breathing heavy (like after running up a flight of stairs). You can then just think about sex...and...WHAM-OH.....you are as hard as a steel ingot! ....and you can do it fully erect just like you did when you were 19 years old - after you liberate yourself, you will go flat like normal, but then you can be up and steel hard again within 20 minutes (on just the one pill). Some day I hope to have a woman with me when I take the next pill, (to have sex with after taking the pill), instead of always being alone.
Updated: 5-Jan-2007 08:57
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