DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Home Depot is defending a lawsuit filed by a man who claims one of the chain's stores ignored his cries for help after he fell victim to a prank and was glued to a toilet seat.

Bob Dougherty, 57, of nearby Nederland, said he became stuck to a bathroom toilet seat last year after somebody smeared glue on it.

"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The Daily Camera, of Boulder. "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.

According to the lawsuit, store officials called for an ambulance after about 15 minutes. Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat.

Dougherty, "frightened and humiliated," passed out as he was being wheeled out of the store, court papers said.

The lawsuit said the toilet seat separated from his skin, leaving abrasions.

"This is not Home Depot's fault," Dougherty said. "But I am blaming them for letting me hang in there and just ignoring me."
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What a crappy experience!

Is that American terminology 'Hanging in there'

Not what I would call it.

Maybe the head clerk thought that this was another episode of Jackass?

Just a thought.... lol


Edit: There is no need to quote the full article.
-Disinterested

Lmao, thats priceless.

oh my , how humiliating that must have been .

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa, sorry, that is just so funny, brings a tear to the eye. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I knew I shouldnt have used such a strong glue ooops.. I live in CO and never heard of this till now.

LOL ROFL LOL

BAM!

Hopefully the morons responsible are caught and get their faces glued to toilet seats by the man who went through this ordeal.

OMG!!!

That's mean, but you know what...I'd probably be laughing my butt off if I was one of the employees. Cause you can't write things like this!!

Now, I have heard of a guy getting duct taped to a toilet!!!

A close friend of mine was in the navy. One of the guys who was suppose to be on guard duty fell asleep on the head. He & a couple of others took a big roll of duct tape & "secured" him to the bowl!!! Hey! Those ships can sway a lot when they are out to sea!!!

40nrockinon

LOL


Ouch, i feel sorry for him...

Nobody left him there to rot, It is not Home Depot fault, that some degenerate decided smeared super glue on the toilet seat. It is not the employees job to greet people before they walk into a restroom and say, look before you sit, that's just common sense.



He should of added stupid, for not looking before you sat on a public toilet seat.



Nobody was ignoring him. The employees called emergency services, and after 15 minutes, proper medical assistants was giving.

The morning show on the radio station I listen to spoofed this this morning. They have one guy they always set up to do stupid stuff and they convinced him to glue himself to the toliet seat and yell for help.

I guess most of the people in their building must listen to the station to, cuz instead of helping him they were throwing stuff at him, turning off the lights and sticking their halloween masks under the stall. He was stuck there for most of the morning.

How embarrassing!

Me and my dad were talking about this and he proved a good point, normally when u sit on some thing you feel it and get up right ?, why didnt this guy feel the glue ? glue normaly takes a while in order to bond stuff to other stuff. The guy could have always just did it him self to get money from the store, never know.

I could think of better ways of making a few bucks and keeping my dignity intact.

Good call!!


Doubts Raised About Toilet-Seat Case
By Associated Press

Tue Nov 8, 8:47 PM

DENVER - A man who sued Home Depot last month claiming a prank left him glued to a toilet seat made a similar allegation about another restroom more than a year ago, an official told a newspaper.

Bob Dougherty's lawsuit alleges employees at the store ignored his pleas for help on the day before Halloween 2003 because they thought he was kidding.

But Ron Trzepacz, former director of operations for the town of Nederland, where Dougherty lives, told the Rocky Mountain News in Tuesday's editions that Dougherty told him in the summer of 2004 he was glued to a toilet seat in the town's visitor center but pulled himself free.

Trzepacz told the paper he inspected the bathroom and found "no indication that anything had been on the toilet seat." No police report was filed, he said.

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Nice! Another scam artist given his just deserts hopefully.

Now... when I've GOT TO GO 3 SEC AGO!!! OMG!1!!11one!! I don't really look at the seat... I'm lucky if I can put my bottom over it in time sometimes when that No. 3 starts kicking in... And, during "times of stress" like that, my butt can tend to sweat... so I dunno given the right "emergency" circumstance I can see this happening to me...

would totally suck, and something to laugh about... later....

....

...number one...I know which one that one is....number two...know which one that one is too....

Celumnaz....you're gonna have to help me out here, what on earth is a number three? Have you been able to invent your own, new and improved method of human waste disposal?

A serial butt gluer. I hope they plaster this guys face all over his local newspapers with a huge headline "Man glues own butt to toilet seat for money."

Couldn't he come up with a new way to try to sue someone?

lol, that's what I call um... "the squirts", "the runs", "butt vomit", umm... diarrhea... #3

....why did I ask? Just...seriously...why? Why?

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_313140426.html

This article says that he may have made the same claim just 6 months ago!!!! Now, if that doesn't smell like yesterday's fish, I don't know what does!!!

40nrockinon