Salesman Richard Carter fears he's facing the sack after struggling with a seven-year erection.

Richard, 34, developed the rare condition, priapism, after taking panic attack medication.  It left his penis almost constantly stiff and he needed eight hospital operations to reduce it.  Richard's bulge also left him in agony as he drove vans selling fire extinguishers for Chubb.

He was forced to take so much time off that bosses have told him they may need to "reassess" whether he can still work for them as an on-the-road salesman. Richard, from Holbrooks, Coventry, claims he's been threatened with redundancy and offered a pay-off of just 10 weeks' wages - despite a decade of service.

He said: "Some may think it's good to have an erection for that long, but I was often in terrible pain. I had to wear knee-length coats in summer to hide it, yet people at work thought it was a joke."  The condition has now improved and Richard won a bravery award in 2003 for using his extinguishers on a blazing car.

He said: "I was told the op may make me impotent, but I had to risk it to avoid any more pain." Chubb last night said they might find Richard an alternative job. A spokesman said: "We sympathise with him. His position is under review."

He sounds like most teenage boys to me. We shouldn't laugh though, he's having a hard enough time as it is...

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Whoa! That's cured it.