A Bronx man claims he was wrongfully arrested last year by cops just for carrying Viagra around with him, and now he's suing the city and the detective who cuffed him. According to court papers obtained by DNAInfo, Peter Williams was thrown in jail for two days—which is equivalent to 12 lost erections on the little blue pills!
Williams said he and a friend were heading to work at about 3 p.m. on May 25th, 2011 when Det. Howell Daniel stopped them. In the lawsuit, Williams accuses Daniel of using excessive force during the stop. Williams was placed in a police van for four hours, then left in jail for two days; there were no charges filed against him, and no specific reason given for his detention. "The wrongful, unjustifiable and unlawful apprehension, arrest, detention and imprisonment were all carried out without a warrant or probable cause," the lawsuit says.
Williams "still suffers from episodes of anxiety, anger, loss of sleep, and other impingement of emotional good health," according to the lawsuit. Most of those aren't even possible side effects of Viagra, although we'd probably take loss of sleep over "a blue tint to your vision" or "prolonged, painful, or inappropriate erection of penis." Nevertheless, this hostile atmosphere is toxic for people who need to pick up their Viagra from the Park Slope Food Co-op whenever they're running dangerously flaccid—of course, this is why we recommend everyone goes all-organic with "Himalayan Viagra," aka "dong chong xia cao," aka dried dead worms.
