Posted on 06/16/2008 12:51:11 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
Shopper sues Home Depot, claims he was cemented to store toilet
JUNE 13--A St. Louis man claims that he was injured last year after being glued to a toilet seat in a Home Depot and is suing the retail giant for negligence. Haywood Rosales, 31, charges that during an August 2007 visit to a Home Depot in Florissant, Missouri he used a store bathroom and came into contact with a toilet seat "covered with adhesive," according to his Circuit Court lawsuit.
Rosales's lawyers told TSG that their client did not notice the adhesive before sitting down and that he used his cell phone to alert his wife, with whom he was shopping, after realizing "he was glued to the toilet seat." A copy of Rosales's June 11 lawsuit, first reported by Courthouse News, can be found below.
When Rosales stood up, the complaint asserts, he "received cuts, bruises, and tearing on his buttocks and thighs," and subsequently "endured the embarrassment, pain, and suffering of the initial injury and its concomitant treatment." Rosales, who claims he was "rendered unable to work" by his injuries, is seeking in excess of $25,000 in damages. Rosales's lawyers said their client sued Home Depot after the retailer's insurer "summarily rejected" a claim.
In November 2005, a Colorado man filed a similar lawsuit against Home Depot, alleging that he was so fused to a toilet seat that paramedics had to remove the seat from the toilet to get him out of the store bathroom. After almost two years of litigation, the Colorado case was dismissed after a federal judge ruled that Home Depot did not have prior "actual or constructive knowledge" of the dangerous toilet, nor was the glue prank foreseeable. Rosales's lawsuit refers to the earlier incident, charging that Home Depot should have recognized that "there would be a strong possibility that instances of copycat behavior would occur."
What a crappy deal.
True, but what do you want to bet that Mr. Rosales was the copycat?
Yeah a real pain in the ass.
Did the culprits go by the name “D-Day” and “Bluto”.
What no @ss-gaskets available at Home Depot...?
Generally speaking:
1. It would hae to be super glue in order to bond in a few seconds, but if it was cyanocrolate it would dry before the “perp” left the bathroom.
2. If it wasn’t and the “vic” sat down and felt wet gooey mess he should have stood back up before it had a chance to set.
Given these conditions we must assume that the victim has a dead end and couldnt feel the adhesive...
“he used a store bathroom and came into contact with a toilet seat covered with adhesive”.......
Gack!...didn’t this doofus check the seat first?...
As opposed to being an insensitive a**?
There are always risks to using a "public" restroom. Let the crapper beware.
Maybe Larry Craig had just used int with a friend and not cleaned up afterwards...
Sounds like a DIY job to me. I check the guy’s history.
It pays to use toilet seat covers or lay T.P. on the seat before sitting down and unloading !
What adult sits on a public toilet seat without inspecting it closely for cleanliness beforehand?
-ccm
Actually, I make it a rule to NEVER plop my butt on a public toilet seat without that white piece of paper on it... doing that will eliminate yourself 100% as a victim of the ol' glue on the toilet seat prank...
Either this gentleman glued himself on the seat to sue HD or is taking a big risk to contact various diseases...
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