Chile Giving Out Free Viagra to Senior Citizens

Apparently true. (Checks calendar – April Fool’s Day was over a month ago):

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080501/D90CGQD00.html

Insert Joke Here.

No jokes from me. I think that’s great.

Well…it’s not the entire nation of Chile–it’s only one town. A working-class suburb, actually. Population 98,000.

And you have to register in advance, and be certified by a doctor as needing them, and as being healthy enough to handle the strain of your suddenly hectic sex life.

So it’s not really “Chile giving out free Viagra to senior citizens”, it’s “the mayor of a big town realizing that he could do nothing more than give away 1,500 free Viagra pills and suddenly be more popular, not to mention garnering the kind of publicity that you can’t buy.”

Sorry to be the wet blanket here. Hope those plane tickets to Santiago are refundable… :smiley:

For some reason, I initially read this as “Chili’s Giving Out Free Viagra to Senior Citizens.”

I looked up the total population for that town yesterday. Apparently only somewhere around 1.5% of the population qualify as needing the medicine.