Woman gets stuck on toilet, suffers burns
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - A woman who became stuck to a toilet seat in a shopping mall restroom was treated at a local hospital after paramedics used fingernail polish remover to free her, officials said.
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The 53-year-old Council Bluffs woman suffered burns to her skin in the incident, which happened Wednesday, officials with the Fire Department said.
Investigators said they believe someone placed a cement compound on the toilet seat in the restroom at the Mall of the Bluffs.
Investigators say they are treating the case as an assault and vandalism.
The woman, who wasn't identified, told KETV in Omaha, Neb., that the burns are painful and that the incident was one of the most embarrassing moments in her life.[/quote]
1) That is funny as hell.
2) How can they say they are looking at this as an assault? Isn't intent to cause bodily harm needed for assault?
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PsiChi the Flatulent wrote:
How can they say they are looking at this as an assault? Isn't intent to cause bodily harm needed for assault?
I regularly squirt Super Glue onto bog seats as an act of benevolence to people who may otherwise fall off.
How could anyone perceive it as malicious
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
A man alleged the same back in 2005 but may have been lying.
MSNBC wrote:
Home Depot was sued by a shopper who claims he got stuck to a restroom toilet seat because a prankster had smeared it with glue.
Bob Dougherty, 57, accused employees of ignoring his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding.
"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The (Boulder) Daily Camera. "They just let me rot."
The lawsuit, filed Friday, said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck at the Louisville store on the day before Halloween 2003. A store employee who heard him calling for help informed the head clerk by radio, but the head clerk "believed it to be a hoax," the lawsuit said.
Bob Dougherty, 57, accused employees of ignoring his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding.
"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The (Boulder) Daily Camera. "They just let me rot."
The lawsuit, filed Friday, said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck at the Louisville store on the day before Halloween 2003. A store employee who heard him calling for help informed the head clerk by radio, but the head clerk "believed it to be a hoax," the lawsuit said.
MSNBC wrote:
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.
Dougherty’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, denied his client made such a claim and said Dougherty is willing to take a polygraph test.
"The allegation doesn’t make any sense," Cohen told The Associated Press Tuesday.
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.
Dougherty’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, denied his client made such a claim and said Dougherty is willing to take a polygraph test.
"The allegation doesn’t make any sense," Cohen told The Associated Press Tuesday.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
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2) How can they say they are looking at this as an assault? Isn't intent to cause bodily harm needed for assault?
California Penal Code
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240. An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present
ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another.
ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another.
I can see where the interpret having your ass superglued to a public toilet as a violent injury. I would see it more as Battery, as there was more than just an attempt to injure someone.
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242. A battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence
upon the person of another.
upon the person of another.
Bet she uses those paper liners from now on.
Edit: I know I’m using CA penal code but I'm sure Iowa has a similar definition.
Edited, Aug 4th 2006 at 3:22pm EDT by BloodwolfeX
PsiChi the Flatulent wrote:
How can they say they are looking at this as an assault?
If somehow my balls got glued to the seat, you can beat anyone within a 3 mile radius of the stall will be dead.
Provided by the management for your protection.
Too bad for her.
Too bad for her.
Gah, how anyone can sit on a public restroom seat without 10 layers minimum of those paper liners or toilet paper is beyond me.
GitSlayer wrote:
Gah, how anyone can sit on a public restroom seat without 10 layers minimum of those paper liners or toilet paper is beyond me.
Believe it or not, there are a lot of places that still don't provide them.
I'm spoiled, because out here in Oregon it seems that every where you go they are provided, so it was a bit of a rude awakening to return home to visit Michigan and find that there were practically NO places that provided them.
Nonetheless, there's always the whole "cover the seat with strips of toilet paper" substitute in a pinch, so there's really no excuse for planting your bare backside on the public seat.
To be assault you have to cause a violent injury to someone. That injury does not have to be directly caused, it can be indirect. ie. Removing a ladder from someone working on a roof, moving a chair before someone sits down, leaving a rake where someone is likely to step on it and hit them selves in the face. Comedy is just full of assault. 
I would guess that the glue when in contact with skin can cause oxidation and therefore burns. Since they placed it where it was likely to come in contact with skin, they are commiting ASSault.
Edited, Aug 5th 2006 at 12:22am EDT by fhrugby
I would guess that the glue when in contact with skin can cause oxidation and therefore burns. Since they placed it where it was likely to come in contact with skin, they are commiting ASSault.
Edited, Aug 5th 2006 at 12:22am EDT by fhrugby
Am I the only one who found ***ault to be kinda funny? A pun even?
someone tried this a while back with superglue.
it wasnt as much as an assult as it was someone trying to sue a shopping mall for lax security. after it was proven that the gule would have to have been placed there within 30 seconds of her sitting on it or it would have dried, her story fell apart and she addmitted she did it for the money.
mabe this wench found a new twist. something that takes longer to dry. even so, someone would certainly notice something sticky on a public tolet seat immediatly and the normal reaction would be to stand, not sit there and let it harden.
most people anyway. sounds like a scam.
it wasnt as much as an assult as it was someone trying to sue a shopping mall for lax security. after it was proven that the gule would have to have been placed there within 30 seconds of her sitting on it or it would have dried, her story fell apart and she addmitted she did it for the money.
mabe this wench found a new twist. something that takes longer to dry. even so, someone would certainly notice something sticky on a public tolet seat immediatly and the normal reaction would be to stand, not sit there and let it harden.
most people anyway. sounds like a scam.
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