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Man Sues After Using Glue-Covered Toilet
Yahoo News/AP ^ | 11/2/2005 | Yahoo News/AP

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."


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To: BipolarBob

So does the defense have photo's?


61 posted on 11/02/2005 6:23:55 PM PST by Kimmers
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To: Mike Bates
I dunno why they had to call an ambulance. I mean, this WAS a Home Depot, right?


62 posted on 11/02/2005 6:26:13 PM PST by Sloth (You being wrong & me being closed-minded are not the same thing, nor are they mutually exclusive.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

LOL. I can't believe I'm on a long legs ping list:')


63 posted on 11/02/2005 6:32:55 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Mike Bates
What a dolt!

Dude! Haven't you heard of these??


64 posted on 11/02/2005 6:34:29 PM PST by kstewskis ("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big..." Jerry Fletcher)
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To: Rose of Sharn; tuffydoodle

over here.


65 posted on 11/02/2005 6:35:07 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: kstewskis

Those things stick too.


66 posted on 11/02/2005 6:36:00 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: CindyDawg
LOL!

But at least the glue would stick to the paper, and not so much to his hoo-haa!

67 posted on 11/02/2005 6:37:35 PM PST by kstewskis ("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big..." Jerry Fletcher)
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To: diamond6
Does anybody know the place to get the best price on HP Inkjets?

Wal-Mart the Friday after Thanksgiving.

68 posted on 11/02/2005 6:40:35 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Mike Bates

Typical guy, didn't inspect the seat carefully before sitting down. I wonder if they had those paper thingys available?


69 posted on 11/02/2005 6:49:17 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Mike Bates
Well, if he first put paper on the seat, he would have realized something was wrong. Serves him right for setting his @ss directly on the seat.
70 posted on 11/02/2005 6:51:14 PM PST by fso301
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To: Mike Bates

It was a terrible joke and the man was ill at the time. I feel for the guy. But I don't think he should get a settlement...15 minutes is not that long.


71 posted on 11/02/2005 6:51:59 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles
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To: savedbygrace

i believe you mean Rio Linda the one rush refers to . Loma Linda is the seven day adventist city where the teaching hospital accomplished the first heart transplant and has one of the nations finest cardiac care and oncology care centers in the world. been there for cardiac care if you want to live a little longer its the only place to go and people come from all over the world for proton treatments /p>


72 posted on 11/02/2005 6:58:19 PM PST by mt tom
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To: Mike Bates

My gut instinct is that he's the #1 suspect for putting the glue on the seat.


73 posted on 11/02/2005 6:59:09 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: CindyDawg; Maximus of Texas

Welcome to our club. We were going to have jackets, but Max insisted on frilly booty shorts. ;-)


74 posted on 11/02/2005 7:06:58 PM PST by LongElegantLegs (Yarn-ho.)
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To: CindyDawg

I saw that. Rotted. Isn't that a bit extreme?


75 posted on 11/02/2005 7:08:11 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Mike Bates

Either that or it 2 years of lawyer shopping to find one willing to even bother.


76 posted on 11/02/2005 7:08:43 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: mt tom

You're probably right, but I thought Johnny Carson started that, and I thought it was Loma Linda. I'm undoubtedly wrong. Sorry for ruining the joke for you.


77 posted on 11/02/2005 7:10:31 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: Mike Bates

Sounds like this man truly was on de-pot.


78 posted on 11/02/2005 7:17:13 PM PST by miele man
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To: aomagrat

Man, I wipe any toilet seat I'm going to sit on first. You just never know what those little spots of liquid on the seat might be.


79 posted on 11/02/2005 7:23:28 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: demsux
My favorite is putting saran wrap (clear) over the bowl, but under the seat... Mean but funny.

My grandfather told me about making nitrogen tri-iodide and putting it on toilet seats as a youngster. It would apparently go off if a fly walked on it.

80 posted on 11/02/2005 7:23:55 PM PST by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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