Nov.26.2007 More women need to ride in cable cars
Via Fark, a charming story about a woman who, after a cable car accident, claimed she was turned into a nymphomaniac.
It was one of the wildest cases in Bay Area history. In 1964, 23-year-old Gloria Sykes filed a lawsuit claming that injuries from a cable car accident turned her into a nymphomaniac.
Attorney Marvin Lewis, Jr. was finishing law school when his father, who has passed on, was Skykes’ attorney.
“It was an odd case, ” Lewis remembered. ” It mixed San Francisco cable cars, the sexual revolution, and nymphomaniacs. People were discussing this in every bar and every bedroom in America.”
Sykes said after the accident she had sex with 100 men. She sued San Francisco for $500,000.
One day she took a ride on the Hyde street cable car line. It was climbing up the steep hill near Lombard street when suddenly mechanical failure caused the grip to lose the cable.
The car plunged backwards down the hill. Sykes hit a pole she suffered a black eye, bruises and, she said, an insatiable appetite for sex.
The story ends by saying that Sykes no longer wants to talk about the case (she was awarded $50k). Yeah I’d rather that the hagardly 60something year old not talk about her hungry libido, so I’m cool with that. But this story is amazing, if only for its combination of insatiable sexuality and cable-based cars.
I wouldn’t want a wife or girlfriend in a similar cable car situation, mind you. But I want my daughter to get really cable car’d up as soon as she turns 15. Not because it’d be hot or anything, she’s my daughter. I just want her to be popular, even if she doesn’t have a great personality. That’s what you do as a parent. You think outside the box for your children’s happiness. I don’t care that I live in New York City or that there aren’t any cable cars on the Eastern seaboard, that little girl is going to ride cable cars until she’s f*cking guys until they respect her!
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