When You Gotta Go, You Can't

[Armywife375]

When You Gotta Go, You Can't

Thursday, November 03, 2005



Some guys just can't get off the pot � literally.

Bob Dougherty, 57, has sued a Home Depot (search) in Louisville, Colo., saying he got stuck to a toilet seat in the restroom there after a Halloween jokester rubbed glue on it, according to The (Boulder) Daily Camera.

In the suit, Dougherty claims employees ignored his yells for help for at least 15 minutes � thinking the whole thing was some kind of hoax.

"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The Daily Camera. "They just let me rot."

Filed on Friday, the lawsuit says Dougherty had been recovering from six-way heart bypass surgery when he was shopping in the store the day before Halloween 2003.

He thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck to the can and took three nitroglycerin pills.

An employee eventually heard the super-glued shopper calling for help and let the head clerk know about the situation via radio.

The head clerk didn't act right away because he "believed it to be a hoax," Dougherty's statement says.

Kathryn Gallagher, Home Depot public relations manager, told The Daily Camera she couldn't comment on pending litigation.

After at least 15 minutes more, store officials finally called for an ambulance, the suit says.

Boulder County Paramedics (search) unbolted the seat and, while wheeling the "frightened and humiliated" man from the store, he passed out.

The paramedics rushed to get Dougherty on his back, and the toilet seat separated from his skin, leaving abrasions, the lawsuit says.

"This is not Home Depot's fault," he told The Daily Camera. "But I am blaming them for letting me hang in there and just ignoring me."

Dougherty's lawyer, Mark Cohen, said the store offered a measly $2,000 to settle the sticky situation.

"That was insulting," he told The Daily Camera.

The lawsuit says three suspicious juveniles were spotted inside the store, and coins were found glued to the sidewalk just before Dougherty got glued to the john.

[yrualeg]

Okay, maybe I am just a little callous but fuck this clown. this is the reason that things are so expensive anyway. Frivilous freakin Lawsuits Do you think that this is really going to cost Home Depot anything they are just going to pass the cost on to the consumer Just like every other company. This fucking asshat thinks that since no one came to help him they should have to pay him cause his feelings were hurt and he was embarassed. too Fucking bad, what Home Depot should have to cover are the medical costs thats it nothing more. They have no legal duty to help this poor stupid man that aparently doesn't look at the seat before he sat his stupid ass down, if he would've done that ....all of this could've been avoided. What about some personal Responsibility look where you shit asshat

Poor Fuckin baby booo fuckin hooo

[Armywife375]

I thought it was funny at the point he said they let him Rot, FOR A FULL 15 MINUTES! [LOL] I was rather impressed in the turn around time.