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There's enough surprises in this story to go around. Every character get's the shaft, in some way. I'd like to see a movie made about this.
Editor's Corner - Yahoo! News UK (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/26357/ - broken link)
A judge in Stuttgart, Germany, is currently trying to decide on a lawsuit in which a man hired his neighbour to impregnate his wife.
It gets weirder.
Demetrius Soupolos, 29, and his former beauty queen wife, Traute, were very keen to have a child together, but Demetrius was sterile so they began to seek out other possible options.
The option the couple eventually decided on was to hire their neighbour Frank Maus, 34, to impregnate Traute.
Maus, who was already married with two children agreed to do the job for the fee of €2,000. For three evenings a week for the next six months, a total of 72 different times, Maus tried to impregnate Traute.
When his own wife objected, Maus explained that he was "only doing it for the money."
After the unsuccessful six-month period Soupolos insisted that Maus take a medical examination. The doctor concluded that Maus was also sterile, which forced his wife into admitting that their two children did not belong to him.
Soupolos is now suing Maus in an effort to get his money back. Maus' argument is that he did not guarantee conception, only that he would try his hardest.
I have 3 kids. If my neighbor wanted me to impregnate his beauty queen wife I would give him a size-able discount, ya know.... I'm big on neighborly coorporation.
Heh. This isn't as uncommon or "modern" as people think.
Anyone else a fan of the medievel legends of King Arthur? It's widely held that Arthur thought it was HIS fault that his queen, Gueneviere, couldn't get pregnant and some of the stories say that he let his best friend and knight Lancelot have a go. (Some of those even say that Arthur was present and part of the coupling.) She still didn't give him an heir and he had no idea that he had fathered a son with his half-sister Morgain until the son, Mordred, came to claim the throne.
History and literature are full of these and other even more wild tales. Back then, though, they did it for free so there weren't grumbles about payment.
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