A CABLE CAR NAMED DESIRE (the real name of the case)
The case of Gloria Sykes caused a sensation in San Fransisco throughout the month of April, 1970. A devout Lutheran from Dearborn Heights, MI, the 23-year-old Sykes had been in San Fransisco only two weeks when, in September, 1964, she was involved in a cable car accident. The Hyde Street cable car lost its grip and plunged backwards, throwing Sykes against a pole. She suffered two black eyes and several bruises, but worst of all, claimed her lawyer, she was transformed into a nymphomaniac. Although she had had sex back in Michigan, she became insatiable after the accident and once engaged in intercourse 50 times in five days. THis inconvenience caused her to sue the Municipal Railway for $500,000 for physical and emotional injuries. The jury of eight women and four men was basically sympAthetic and awarded Sykes a judgement for $50,000.
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