28 March, 2003
Newspaper cutting, Metro North

Sex toy that made sparks fly

A THRILL-SEEKER electrocuted himself with a home-made sex toy.

Manfred Lubitz wired himself up to the gadget, which had a vibrating mat, massage pads and electrodes attached to his genitals, to watch porn movies.

Police in Malaga, Spain - where the 65-year-old German lived said: 'There seems to have been a power surge while he was watching a film called Hot Vixen Nuns. And the flat was damp.'

Mr Lubitz boasted to friends that his Orgasmatron, named after a sex machine in the Woody Allen film Sleeper, 'was better than a woman, and a lot cheaper