Nov 9, 4:34 PM (ET)

DENVER (AP) - A man who sued Home Depot claiming a prank left him glued to a toilet seat in a bathroom said Tuesday he's willing to take a lie detector test to dispel any doubts about his story.

Bob Dougherty sued the home-improvement chain last month, alleging employees at a Louisville, Colo., store ignored his pleas for help after he got stuck on a restroom toilet seat in October 2003.

The Rocky Mountain News reported Dougherty made similar allegations in his hometown of Nederland. Colorado Bureau of Investigation records show Dougherty pleaded guilty to filing a false police report in 1976, something Dougherty said he did not remember, KUSA-TV in Denver reported.

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


Trzepacz said he inspected the bathroom and found "no indication that anything had been on the toilet seat." He said no police report was filed. Trzepacz, who now lives in Franklinville, N.Y., did not immediately return a telephone message left by the AP.

Dougherty called Trzepacz's claims "nonsense" and said, "I don't even know the guy."

Dougherty's lawyer, Mark Cohen, said his client was willing to take a polygraph test.

"The allegation (by Trzepacz) doesn't make any sense," Cohen told The Associated Press.

Trzepacz said he worked for the mountain village about 30 miles northwest of Denver for 13 years.

Dougherty's suit against Home Depot, filed late last month in Boulder County District Court, seeks $3 million. It claims he suffered pain, humiliation and financial loss.

The lawsuit said Dougherty, 57, was recovering from heart bypass surgery at the time and thought he was having a heart attack.

Dougherty said he suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome, nightmares and diabetes after the incident.

"It's not about the money. I want my health back. I want to be back to normal," he said. "I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anybody ever, ever again."

A Home Depot spokeswoman had no immediate comment Tuesday.


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I read this in the 'Philadelphia Inquirer' yesterday. I can see some sue happy nutcase gluing himself to the can.

Lapi'che


Diabetes? OOOKKKK

I saw this on Yahoo

lol, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's not home depot's fault that some teenagers pulled a prank on him! And how the heck do you get PTSD from being glued to the toilet seat?

This is getting weirder and weirder . . .

Bull**** detector max alert .

I can see how hes maybe suffered stress, but how on earth did he end up with diabetes from it?!

In my opinion that removes just about all of his credibility!

polygraphs lie, I'll NEVER take another again, EVER.

I was held for an extra Hour, because the polygraph came back and said I was lying about my Name!!!! I lied about my phone number, according to the polygraph, I lied about my address, according to the polygraph. boooooo to polygraphs.

Maybe he's some sort of attention seeker and wants them to stick the polygraph on his bum

*LOL* @ me... Maybe... Definitely an attention seeker...

maybe it thought you were having an identity crisis

What are the odds on someone getting maliciously glued to a toilet seat ?

this is the best i can find.

"The odds are greater that you'll be killed or injured by a deer or a bathroom appliance than by a marauding shark, according to the latest statistics complied by the International Shark Attack File maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History. Stay out of the bathroom. Injuries involving toilets number in the tens of thousands each year. In addition, bathroom bowl products (things such as plungers, cleansers and, we presume, those ghastly deodorant cakes found in rest stop toilets) annually account for more than a thousand injuries. Killer sharks? Statistically, no problem. I'm worried about those toilets."

so it seems the "bottom line" is that toilets are more dangerous than sharks

I still haven't found God down my toilet....

How in the world is Home Depot, or even Burger King for that matter, going to keep some idiot from going into a public bathroom and glueing himself to the toilet? Maybe he should have done it at a government building. If he planned to sue, they are the ones with the real money.

Assuming that this is ligitamate, (and I don't think for a minute that it is), did he not feel the glue as soon as he sat down?

Just how long does it take this guy to use the "can" anyhow? Was it his first one of the week?

How do we know that it was glue and not just the Tiddy Bowl man down there with a harpoon?