# Would You Like to Touch My Boobies? That'll Be $32K **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883 "2006-09-23T21:01:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/1 "2006-09-23T21:01:40Z")
[Judge says it’s overcharging.](http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=13573591&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews) > [@](#): > > A fee of 25,500 euros ($32,000) is way too much for a woman to charge a man for fondling her bosom, a Finnish district court ruled. > > The court jailed a couple in their twenties for more than a year for charging a 74-year-old who suffers from dementia a total of 25,500 euros to enjoy the woman’s breasts on 10 occasions. So, apparently, the fellow had buyer’s remorse. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/2 "2006-09-23T21:04:39Z")
I’d think someone would let an old man grab their tits for TONS cheaper. As a matter of fact, we need a good, old fashioned price war. So, um…I’ve got 5 bucks right here! A niiiiiiiiiiice crisp Lincoln! Who gets felt up first? don’t come running all at once! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/3 "2006-09-23T21:11:11Z")
Well, it is only $3,200 per time, and then only $1,600 per boob. Almost a bargain. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/4 "2006-09-23T21:11:55Z")
I wonder what a fair price would be? I’m gonna be sending out invoices soon… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/5 "2006-09-23T21:26:38Z")
Man, and I thought I was getting burned when that hooker wanted an extra 20 to take her top off! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/6 "2006-09-23T21:36:41Z")
> [@](#): > > “Based on general life experience alone, it is indisputably clear that a 25,500 euro charge is disproportionate to the compensation in question,” Judge Hasse Hakki, who heard the case, told Reuters Friday. > > But he said the court in Kokkola, about 300 miles north of Helsinki, would not decide “the proper financial value of the compensation.” Pretty slick on Judge Hakki’s part. He’s passing the question of proper price on to another court. Coward. What kind of research will the next judge do? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/7 "2006-09-24T00:21:04Z")
Um… wellm I have balls to fondle. Two hundred fifty bucks a pop. Two for one special thru the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/8 "2006-09-24T00:58:01Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Man, and I thought I was getting burned when that hooker wanted an extra 20 to take her top off! [/QUOTE] That seems especially steep if you’re not straight . . . ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/9 "2006-09-24T01:02:12Z")
When will people learn? In the long run, buying is _always_ cheaper than renting. ---
**Author:** ![jake1964](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@jake1964](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jake1964)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/10 "2006-09-24T01:11:04Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] When will people learn? In the long run, buying is _always_ cheaper than renting. [/QUOTE] You’d think so, wouldn’t you? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/11 "2006-09-24T01:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] When will people learn? In the long run, buying is _always_ cheaper than renting. [/QUOTE] You clearly have not learned the Businessman’s Credo – If it floats, fucks, or flies, Rent, don’t Buy. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/12 "2006-09-24T01:21:21Z")
If the guy has senile dementia, that would seem to be the relevant legal point. The key point to my mind is that the old guy probably has lost his ability to know what he’s doing. I wonder why that wasn’t the basis for the judge’s ruling. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/13 "2006-09-24T01:27:46Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] If the guy has senile dementia, that would seem to be the relevant legal point. The key point to my mind is that the old guy probably has lost his ability to know what he’s doing. I wonder why that wasn’t the basis for the judge’s ruling. [/QUOTE] For some reason, apparently the judge did npt want to rule the man was not mentally comptent to see to his own affairs. Possibly that might have led to a some form of commitment to an institution, if no family were available or willing to take responsibility for him. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/14 "2006-09-24T03:26:08Z")
If he’s giving $32,000 to a woman so he can grope her breasts, he clearly is not capable of managing his own affairs. There’s a whole industry in Florida devoted to soaking old people who’ve accumulated wealth over the years who the lose their mental group and if they run afoul of the grifters, they shortly lose their wealth. Very nasty stuff. You have to recognize when these people have a problem and help them out early, before they lose it all. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/15 "2006-09-24T03:56:17Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] If the guy has senile dementia, that would seem to be the relevant legal point. [/QUOTE] Simply selling something to a person with senile demntia is legal, isn’t it? As long as the price is reasonable, that is. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/16 "2006-09-24T17:13:52Z")
[QUOTE=scr4] Simply selling something to a person with senile demntia is legal, isn’t it? As long as the price is reasonable, that is. [/QUOTE] I would think that was the point, if he’d paid a market price I doubt anyone would care ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/17 "2006-09-24T23:12:40Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] I wonder what a fair price would be? I’m gonna be sending out invoices soon… [/QUOTE] Will you be delivering or do I… I mean or does **someone** from out of state have to come to you? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-touch-my-boobies-thatll-be-32k/373883/18 "2006-09-25T04:01:05Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] For some reason, apparently the judge did npt want to rule the man was not mentally comptent to see to his own affairs. [/QUOTE] I know exactly nothing about Finnish law, but in the U.S. at least, it is very difficult and expensive to prove someone incompetent to enter a contract. Establishing “incompetence” involves a lot of time-consuming and expensive expert testimony and such, while establishing an unreasonable fee (in Finland) appears to involve saying, “Judge, based on your general life experience, don’t you think this price is nuts?”