Ultimate climax quest ends in jail

JAKARTA (JP): A jobless man who enlarged his penis by implanting small marbles in it failed to reach the ultimate ecstasy in sexual intercourse and landed in jail instead.

A panel of judges in the East Jakarta district court found the man, 32-year-old Robert Yosef, guilty of obscenity yesterday.

Judge Kamar Sembiring said the incident happened in April when Robert went to try out his heavier thing on a 50-year-old masseuse in an East Jakarta cemetery, after the woman had accepted the Rp 5,000 (US$2) he offered.

Robert told the court all looked promising until the masseur was horrified by the size of her would-be lover's erection when she grabbed it in the dark.

Not to offend Robert, she excused herself saying she was going to the restroom, only to betray him: she told her neighbors what she had just seen and experienced.

Apprehensive about her tale, the neighbors passed the story on to the police, who picked him up the day after her hair-raising nightmare.

Robert, who will serve only two more months, said he was pleased with the verdict. He went over to the people attending the trial and frenziedly kissed everyone's hands.

The sentencing drew a gleeful crowd of about a dozen people. Many of them daring to laugh out loud only after the trial was over. (07/pan)