Who ya gonna call?
Posted on 11/02/2005 5:33:30 PM PST by Mike Bates
Boulder, CO -A hardware retailer Home Depot has found itself in a sticky situation, defending a lawsuit filed by a man who claims the chain's Louisville store ignored his cries for help after he fell victim to a prank and was glued to a toilet seat.
Bob Dougherty, 57, of Nederland, said he became stuck to a bathroom toilet seat on which somebody had smeared glue on Oct. 30, 2003, and felt "tremendous panic" when he realized he was stuck.
"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The (Boulder) Daily Camera. "They just let me rot."
His lawsuit, filed Friday said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery at the time and thought he was having a heart attack. A store employee who heard him calling for help informed the head clerk via radio, but the head clerk "believed it to be a hoax," the lawsuit said.
Home Depot spokeswoman Kathryn Gallagher said she could not comment on pending litigation.
The lawsuit said after about 15 minutes, store officials called for an ambulance. Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, and while wheeling a "frightened and humiliated" Dougherty out of the store, he passed out.
The lawsuit said the toilet seat separated from his skin, leaving abrasions.
"This is not Home Depot's fault," he said. "But I am blaming them for letting me hang in there and just ignoring me."
Good thing I'm not on the jury. His humiliation would just be starting.
Mean but funny.
Poor baby!
He rotted? In 15 minutes? I would have ripped my skin off before being carried thru the store on a commode.
I had to wait in line for 15 minutes at a Home Depot. I'm suing.
I guess everyone needs a hobby.
Baloney claim.
For one, if there was "glue" on the seat you would have to have smelled it just entering the restroom.
Two, you would have seen it on the seat. Or noticed something was on the toilet seat.
Three, the likelyhood the person sat on the seat and immediately didn`t realize there was something on the seat is rather unbelieveable. You would immediately get up, and I doubt any glue would have the ability to keep a person from not standing up in a matter of seconds.
Now if he sat on the seat for sometime, then I could see him getting stuck. But for that to happen, all the other things I mentioned would have to be ignored.
Sounds like a scam to me.
Who ya gonna call?
Was he able to finish his "business"?
This was a cruel stunt & I'm sorry he was recovering from bypass surgery, but being left for 15 mins isn't exactly being left "to rot"
I take it you won't be on the jury that awards the guy $16 million. Or more.
Sounds like he needs more fiber in his diet.
Good one.
I know how he feels. Hurt a lot when it happened to me too.
Evidence! Well he did have 15 minutes. Which one of you guys was wanting to be on his jury?:')
>> but the head clerk "believed it to be a hoax,"
I would have done the same. Next case please!
Could have been worse. Did he have McDonald's coffee with him?
Who sits on a public toilet seat without cleaning it first?
I don't know if people actually tend to look at toilet seats. If you leave the lid up, ladies fall in all the time.
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