NOTW: Woman pried off toilet seat

[Bungleau]

From Associated Press Weird News

Woman pried off boyfriend's toilet after 2 years By ROXANA HEGEMAN • ASSOCIATED PRESS • March 12, 2008 WICHITA, Kan. -- Deputies say a woman in western Kansas became stuck on her boyfriend’s toilet after sitting on it for two years. 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.” The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to report that “there was something wrong with his girlfriend,” Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call. Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh. She was “somewhat disoriented,” and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said. “She said that she didn’t need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave,” he said. She was taken to a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City. Whipple said she has refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators. Authorities said they did not know if she was mentally or physically disabled. Police have declined to release the couple’s names, but the house where authorities say the incident happened is listed in public records as the residence of Kory McFarren. No one answered his home phone number. The case has been the buzz Ness City, said James Ellis, a neighbor. “I don’t think anybody can make any sense out of it,” he said. Ellis said he had known the woman since she was a child but that he had not seen her for at least six years. He said she had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up. At one time the woman worked for a long-term care facility, he said, but he did not know what kind of work she did there. “It really doesn’t surprise me,” Ellis said of the bathroom incident. “What surprises me is somebody wasn’t called in a bit earlier.”

Some of the comments there are pretty funny... I'm trying to figure out how she slept on it.

[johnny]

OMG!!!

[Gangrell]

I don't really have the words

[Harkoliar]

i read it earlier.. kinda bizarre.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

2 years....

[Ladyzekke]

Not sure if her husband is all there either. I mean, how did she eat? He had to have brought her meals so really just let her...sit there... Something just doesn't add up.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

she might as well call Guinness book of records at this point!

[Bumbus]

Originally Posted by Ladyzekke Not sure if her husband is all there either. I mean, how did she eat? He had to have brought her meals so really just let her...sit there... Something just doesn't add up.

It does say that her boyfriend brought her food and water everyday. He also asked her to come out of the bathroom everyday; according to him anyway.

I have to wonder what the boyfriend was using as a toilet all that time; maybe they had a spare bathroom.

I do think that if you are going to decide stay in one place and not move at all on the toilet is kind of a… convenient… place to do it.

I hope she had a television or…something…to do for all that time.

The whole thing is very bizarre and hard for me to believe.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

I'm guessing she didn't have a job?

[Unglaublich Verwustung]

Maybe she worked from home?