Another Man Sues Home Depot After Being Glued To Toilet Seat
Perhaps you recall the strange story of Bob Dougherty, a Home Depot customer who sued the retailer after being glued to a toilet seat at their Louisville, CO location. Mr. Dougherty contended (before the case was dismissed) that the incident gave him post-traumatic stress disorder and that he developed diabetes as a direct result of Home Depot's negligence. Now, nearly 4 years after Mr. Dougherty became affixed to the Home Depot toilet, a Mr. Haywood R. Rosales of St. Louis, MO has filed a similar lawsuit, claiming that Home Depot was negligent in allowing a "copycat" incident to happen to him.
From the complaint:
The Home Depot knew or should have known, that after the incident in Boulder, CO that there would be a strong possibility that instances of copycat behavior would occur, especially since the Home Depot sells a wide variety of adhesive products and that same could be used in a similar manner to recreate, or to cause a similar situation.
Mr. Rosales claims he was "rendered unable to work" by his injuries, is seeking in excess of $25,000 in damages.
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Man if he lost his job, talk about double canned.
I wonder when people will start complaining that Home Depot doesn't have any public restrooms?
Not Boulder Co. location -- it was the Louisville Co. location, check your sources please.
what a nasty prank. I hardly ever use public toilets.
I hate to be the "blame the customer" type but shouldnt the customer share the responsibility in what he sits in when using someone else's toilet? Dont people look at the seat when using a public restroom? I know I do. I also wipe the seat beforehand just in case my quick visual inpection missed an errant drop of urine.
One must consider the possibility that this person MAY have done this to himself in order to get money from a lawsuit. The whole "rendered unable to work" thing makes me wonder. WOuldnt be that hard... bring in superglue, put it on the toilet seat, flush it down the drain, then sit down.
If I have to sit on a public toilet, I wipe the seat down first, then use the paper cowboy hat - regardless of how badly I need to go.
I can only assume that these guys routinely sit in other people's urine if they managed to sit in glue.
How long would you have to sit there for the glue to actually dry?!?!?! And what about those disposable toilet cover seats? Or toiled paper the seat if all else fails...
The only way I would ever take a dump in a public restroom is if I was literally shitting my pants. Even then, the seat gets thoroughly wiped, and not one, but TWO seat protectors are put down (failing that, the seat gets lined with toilet paper).
How could you sit yourself down on those filthy seats without cleaning it first? HOW?!?
Sir I am going to sue you because I walked through your yard...and stepped in your dogs poo ruining my work shoes..shame on you! you owe me monies...
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@donopolis: I've seen (and unfortunatly, been next to) people that just couldn't wait to go (at other store toilets, not Home Depot)...and some of those were ill people.
Now, I've no idea if this guy was that 'urgent'...if he was, then there's some clout there. If not...
There's mention of a 'copycat' in the suit, dunno if he himself put that in there or the lawyer did, but it makes it sound like he did it to himself.
Hey i've been in those situations myself...I would sooner poo myself than sit without looking.
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Ridiculous. I'm going to Lowe's to do this to be original. I need a new car from a fast settlement. This oughta do it. I heart America. Our future is so bright /sarcasm.
Well I, for one, am not going to blame the customer... I'm going to do the first, most logical, and most rational thing that comes to my mind... I'm going to blame Comcast.
Hover. That is all.
When I was a kid working as a busboy (and cleaning the bathroom), I saw an old guy in distress take a poo squirt in a urinal.
I didn't clean it.
First, oh look, I slipped on your icy sidewalk that I already knew was icy before I stepped onto it, so I'm suing you... = Cash Payout.
Glue on toilet I neglected to check = dismissed. Difference? One is more fulla shit, yet in armchair legal circumstance, exactly the same from a negligent owner standpoint.
Second, Seriously, who sits on a public toilet without checking it out or using a toilet paper ring? Hell, who sits on them? Hover god damn it, hover (least you get glued to the seat)
All part of the public services...no charge.
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Who doesn't build a nest prior to sitting down in a public rest room. It nasty brushing your junk up against the open C in public restrooms, my willie demands a buffer.
@donopolis: That's you, though. You =/= Majority of the masses, and let's not forget that not everyone on earth reads this (although they should :D)
Some people are 'urgent', some people do not know any better, and some just simply know and yet don't care.
My bet is still on him doing it to himself, though. Those bottles are freaking small...
What kind of jackass puts glue on a public toilet seat? I don't see how this is Home Depot's fault or anything, but man, you gotta be a special kind of [censored] to do this.
@masterage:
Okay, let's assume that this person
1. did not apply the glue to himself as we both suspect he did.
2. was just in too much of a hurry or to urgent.
3. Didn't realize somehow that one should look where one places their bare buttocks.
Even if all three of those things are true...I don't think that it is Home Depots responsibility to protect people from their own bad judgment. Therfore..Not Home Depot's fault.
Don
Lawsuits like these make me just as sick as RIAA ones. All in all it screws everything up for legitimate problems.
@donopolis: I never said it was (or wasn't) home depot's fault.
But this entire thing is fishy and let's move on.
Two words: Ass. Gaskets.
Home Depot should just have a sign on the door saying, we are not responsible to the glue that is most likely on the toilet. They can even get cheeky about it and make the sign using a toilet lid.
DIABETES?!?!! WHAT?!?!
@donkeyjote: wow that's pun. :P
how do you glue your bum to a seat? Was it gorilla glue? That would have been awsome if it was, but gorilla glue is brown so if you're sitting on brown stuff you probably deserve to get whatever is coming to you.
I didn't even know that they had bathrooms at a home depot. nor would i ever use them i'd rather crap my pants.
I think we all want to know what kind of glue it was.
Hovering is good. You get the added benefit of strengthening certain muscles.
Just so happens I did a lot of errands this weekend and had occasion to make use of the facilities at Home Depot, OfficeMax and Macy. Cleanest award went to OfficeMax but Home Depot surprisingly wasn't too far behind. The Macy's, however, had one faucet in need of a washer, three soap dispensers in need of soap and one very beleaguered trash can in need of emptying.
@Skankingmike: Haha. Crapping your pants is so funny. Ask someone with IBS, Crohns or Colitis about that.
Crap (pardon the pun) like this is why there are fewer public toilets out there.
I don't really have an opinion about the lawsuit itself, but I have to add: I'm pretty sure that there are FAR more germs on the doorknob, the stall latches, and the sink hardware than on the toilet seat. I really doubt putting down a paper ring protects you from much of anything... except glue apparently.
Walk INTO the toliet cubicle while viewing the toliet seat, quickly turn and ..... well you get the idea.
No matter how bad I need to go there is always a point before I sit down that I check the status of the toliet seat.
Sounds like a money grubbing slimmy lawyer has found the ideal victim to accept the corporate donation (settlement).
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Death of Personal Responsibility.
"I didn't know I shouldn't put hot coffee between my legs in the car."
"I didn't look at the toilet seat before I sat down."
"She swore she was on the pill."
I have IBS & had a few close calls in my time , but even in my most dire & urgent needs I still managed to visually check the seat before I sat. Granted it was a REALLY quick inspection...
Wasn't the main problem in the previous case the fact the employees ignored his pleas for help? Thus leaving him stuck for hours. Unitl I know more I'm not sure if this is in the same league of negligence.
AMERATURES!
You gotta mace it up after you put the adhesive down...
Plus, how hard is it to tear a toilet seat off?
@no.no.notorious: Severe stress is a known trigger for the onset of type II diabetes. This is well documented.
Shouldn't the guy be happy he only got away getting glued to the toilet seat? He might have been the first person to get herpes from a toilet seat...or at least one of the rare cases.
But seriously, I usually wipe and then layer the toilet seat with toilet paper before sitting down. Call me paranoid but I ain't taking risk in a public place.
there are bathrooms in Home Depot?
What do these people want? The only viable outcome is that Home Depot close off bathrooms to all customers. There is no way a store is going to check the toilet seats every time someone uses it. And what ever happened to wiping the seat with a piece of toilet paper before plopping down to make sure it was safe? This suit better fail.
OK, we've all reached an agreement that looking before you poo is basically a given and only a fucking moron would just sit and shit.
The question I have is when the dude sat down and noticed that there was something disgusting all over his ass, why didn't he IMMEDIATELY stand up to inspect? Clearly, the dude remained sitting there taking a shit, so that the super glue had time to dry, or else it was sealant or something, which takes a LONG time to dry. In any case, even super glue doesn't immediately form a bond, as we all learned as kids, and it really doesn't even hurt to unstick your fingers or whatever (not that I have ass gluing experience though, so ymmv).
So, clearly it was some sort of very, very powerful, instantly acting glue that only glues upon contact with another person (or someone was watching his actions and deduced he had to shit, whereupon they went and pulled the prank moments before he entered the stall as would be the case with glue of the super variety), or the dude was himself negligent in that he knowingly remained sitting in some sort of liquid, on a public toilet no less, until it bonded to his ass. Way to go, genius.
The plaintiff clams that Home Depot did not "exercise ordinary care". What would that entail? Cameras in every stall? A wide-stanced restroom attendant? At least we'd know where to find the sales help.
Sounds like the dude had a pretty shitty day. Sorry I couldn't resist.
Home Depot should be able to tie this up in court until $25,000 only buys a tank of gas. Like maybe, 2-3 years.
Does no one look at a public toilet seat before sitting down...If I absolutely have to go...I wipe the seat first...I just think..ya'know...gross...what is it that these people don't mind sitting in?
I know blame the Consumer, but good god man, look where you are putting your bare ass.
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