Works like a charm.
Yeah, but he would have looked a bit odd taking it into the bathroom with him.
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."
That's not bad. Have you shopped at Wal-Mart lately?
A rare breed indeed.
Works like a charm.
Yeah, but he would have looked a bit odd taking it into the bathroom with him.
What a pathetic jerk@!
Try Walmart the day after Thanksgiving.
If there were, Barney Frank would have subpoenaed them for a congressional investigation by now.
According to Ford's "48 minute rule" no one should have noticed for at least another 33 minutes.
LOL See my post 86. GMTA
Well, maybe he DID rot.
Seems to me you can find a shyster to take any sort of case.
Gerald Ford even made a law about that? :)
"Note to self... Always use the ass gaskets at Home Depot."
HAHAHAHA That's funny! Now every time I see a dispenser of those things I will get a chuckle...
New Trier politics John Edwards to appear
Former U.S. Senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards will headline the New Trier Democratic Organization's 2005 Annual Dinner on Nov. 6 at the Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel in Northbrook.
Edwards is scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m. about the national landscape, national leadership and his One America Committee, a group dedicated to building "one America that works for all of us."
Nearly 300 North Shore citizens are expected to attend, including Democratic politicians U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of the 9th district, state Sens. Jeff Schoenberg of the 9th district and Susan Garrett of the 29th district, state Reps. Julie Hamos of the 18th district, and Karen May of the 58th district, and Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin, who represents the 13th county district. A volunteer service award will go to B.S. Subbukrishna of Wilmette.
Call (847) 446-8030.
LOL
Ford To Monitor, Time Employees' Potty Breaks
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It is quit common for litigants to wait until shortly prior to the expiration of the statute of limitations before filing a lawsuit. Could be he tried to reasonably resolve the case and Home depot was hoping the statute of limitations would expire.
If they had put a crown on his head he may have looked like King Dick For A Day as they wheeled him away on the unbolted toilet.
That's what he gets for not putting toilet paper around the toilet seat before he sat on it.He could have avoided a big pain in the ass if he took that one little precaution.
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