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You're Name's Not John

DW staff (sms)June 21, 2007

Police were called on to settle a dispute between a prostitute and her client when a prophylactic -- guaranteed to work over 95 percent of the time -- burst while the two were in the act.

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Not even stringent German testing can guarantee a condom won't breakImage: picture-alliance/dpa

What was no doubt intended to be a passionate evening ended abruptly Wednesday with the police getting involved in a midnight tryst after the condom a prostitute was using with her customer broke.

Fearing the worst, the 22-year-old woman wasn't willing to take "John" for an answer when she demanded her client's name, so she called on the police to help her get the information she wanted.

When police arrived at the brothel in the German city of Braunschweig they were able to convince both members of the by then not so intimate pair to fess up and exchange contact details

"We'd rather be on the safe side when there are rows in the red light area," a police spokesman said. "Both were satisfied, and both now know exactly who they had sex with."

Prostitution is legal in Germany.