Here’s the most disturbing story we’ve come across in weeks, courtesy of the Associated Press.
An excerpt:
Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.
“We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital,” Whipple said. “The hospital removed it.”
Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman’s 36-year-old boyfriend.
“She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body,” Whipple said. “It is hard to imagine. … I still have a hard time imagining it myself.”
He told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.
“And her reply would be, `Maybe tomorrow,”‘ Whipple said. “According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom.”
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2008.
OMG! That totally happened on an episode of Nip / Tuck! An obese woman sat on her couch so long her skin fused with the upholstery, and she was stuck. Her boyfriend brought her food and water, but needless to say, she had to do her personal business right there, which added to the, uh, mixture that stuck her to the couch. Gruesome stuff…
Follow-up – the boyfriend is being charged with neglect of a dependent adult, even though she sat there at her own volition– http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/20/woman.bathroom.ap/index.html