Toilet seat case coming unglued?

Fatfreek

Remember this one? Well, according to his hometown's former city official, it may not have been Bob Dougherty's first attempt at claiming some toilet seat stick-down. Dougherty's attorney, Mark Cohen, said this latest allegation "... doesn't make any sense".

I think it does.

Fats

November 8, 2005

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, 57, is willing to take a polygraph test.

"The allegation doesn't make any sense," Cohen told The Associated Press Tuesday.

Neither Trzepacz nor the Nederland town administrator immediately returned a call from the AP. Nederland is about 45 miles northwest of Denver.

Dougherty's lawsuit, filed Oct. 28, said officials at the store in Louisville called for an ambulance after he had been stuck for about 15 minutes. Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, which separated from his skin, leaving abrasions, according to the suit.

The lawsuit also said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck.

The lawsuit claims he suffered pain, humiliation and financial loss. It seeks $3 million.

"It's not about the money. I want my health back. I want to be back to normal," Dougherty said. "I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anybody ever, ever again."
© Copyright 2005 Associated Press.

Finally-Free

Sounds like a very sticky-ass situation to me.

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kid-A

The lawsuit also said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck.

Not sure how you confuse having your ASS glued to a toilet seat with a coronary infarct, but hey, whatever floats your boat! I hope they at least let him take the toilet seat home with him free of charge!!

Satanus

Thanks for the update, fatty.

"It's not about the money. I want my health back.

Home depot isn't in the health business. He should have glued himself to a toilet seat in a doctor's office or a hospital. Dumbass.

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Jourles

This makes me think of those people who walk into a Vegas casino, spill water in front of them, trip over themselves and then try suing the casino. Only problem is, they get nailed on video every time.

And didn't that sue-happy lady with the finger in the chili try suing El Pollo Loco for food poisoning or something a couple of years prior to the Wendy's incident??

If this guy told that director of ops in Nederland about another ass incident that happened before, then either this guy's ass has a target painted on it and has the worst luck, or he finally figured out how to go after a multi-billion dollar company the right way.

But come on. What are your chances of having your rear end glued to a public toilet seat twice within a year? Put me on the jury.

RunningMan

A sticky situation, indeed. Aside from the difficulty in believing his story, the amount of $3 million seems more than a little preposterous - actual damages were more likely in the range of the above number, without the million attached.

startingover

"It's not about the money. I want my health back. I want to be back to normal," Dougherty said. "I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anybody ever, ever again.

If this is real, it is an obvious prank. How is suing Home Depot going to make sure this doesn't happen again.

We had a guy in this area, who was in a wheelchair, going into establishments and sueing them for not having their restrooms in compliance with the handicapped requirements. In one case he sued them for not having insulation on the hot water pipes under the sink, very frustrating for the owners since they didn't even have hot water piped to the sink. In several he measured the height of the towel dispenser, some were off by maybe an inch and so he sued. It seems his lawyer filed quite a few lawsuits on behalf of this man, if my memory serves me it was in the hundreds.

A lot of owners just settled with the guy for several thousand dollars, a friend of mine refused to do that and fought it, it's costing him much, much more than that. I think he's still fighting it and the costs are going up.

Very frustrating when people abuse the system, especially when lawyers seem to be at the root of it,

Finally-Free

We had a guy in this area, who was in a wheelchair, going into establishments and sueing them for not having their restrooms in compliance with the handicapped requirements.

It makes me wonder how he ended up in the wheelchair. Probably the guy was just a bitch from birth and someone finally had enough and took a baseball bat to his kneecaps.

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Satanus

You'ld think that they would get together and hire an accident specialist to arrange one for the wheelchair guy

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startingover

Believe me, my friend is extremely pissed. Not sure if it was the same guy or not, but a customer of mine told me that a couple of hours away from me a guy was doing the same thing, arriving in a limousine. It happened to his girlfriend at her place of business, apparently he couldn't find anything wrong there but others weren't so lucky.

FF, you may be right about the kneecaps.

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