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."
So does the defense have photo's?
LOL. I can't believe I'm on a long legs ping list:')
Dude! Haven't you heard of these??
over here.
Those things stick too.
But at least the glue would stick to the paper, and not so much to his hoo-haa!
Wal-Mart the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Typical guy, didn't inspect the seat carefully before sitting down. I wonder if they had those paper thingys available?
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.
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>
My gut instinct is that he's the #1 suspect for putting the glue on the seat.
Welcome to our club. We were going to have jackets, but Max insisted on frilly booty shorts. ;-)
I saw that. Rotted. Isn't that a bit extreme?
Either that or it 2 years of lawyer shopping to find one willing to even bother.
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.
Sounds like this man truly was on de-pot.
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.
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.
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