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Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.
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 reported in fair condition at 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 of 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. "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier."
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{"commentId":1569622,"authorDomain":"apollo"}
I saw this on Nip/tuck but that woman was stuck on a sofa.
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- 1 vote
#1 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:35 PM EDT{"commentId":1570987,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
There was a woman in Florida who was unable to walk because she was so heavy. She sat on the couch for so long, that the material grew into her skin. I can't recall where I read it, but I'm gonna go look.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":1570992,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
{"commentId":1570992,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1571051,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
1) Gross! 2) What, no picture?
Workers said the home was filthy, and Grinds, 40, was too large to get up from the couch, even to use the bathroom.
Ewwww
{"commentId":1571051,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":1571736,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
1) Gross! 2) What, no picture?
No Smell-O-Vision either ? Geez I'd bet someone on Digg has it :-)
{"commentId":1571736,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1572010,"authorDomain":"roybatty"}
Remind me to never tell the wife to "sit on it."
{"commentId":1572010,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"roybatty"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1570346,"authorDomain":"replytoj001"}
What can you possibly say about a situation like this?????
replytoj001
{"commentId":1570346,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"replytoj001"}
- 1 vote
#2 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:20 PM EDT{"commentId":1570377,"authorDomain":"damiankd"}
I wonder if she's been washing her hands this whole time.
{"commentId":1570377,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"damiankd"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1570374,"authorDomain":"restso"}
Uh... weird.
{"commentId":1570374,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"restso"}
#3 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:26 PM EDT{"commentId":1570444,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
Brian lives in Kansas, maybe he could do a live interview ? This is just too weird....
{"commentId":1570444,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 1 vote
#4 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:41 PM EDT{"commentId":1570473,"authorDomain":"spinladen"}
{"commentId":1570620,"authorDomain":"morwynd"}
First of all:
W
T
F
Second of all, what "charges" are being considered here? She sat there of her own volition, by all accounts (including hers). I guess you could argue he should've called for help sooner? But is failure to do so in violation of any law? It's not like he's her guardian, or her life was in danger or something.
{"commentId":1570620,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"morwynd"}
- 6 votes
#6 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:28 PM EDT{"commentId":1570827,"authorDomain":"spookybf"}
...so he fed her? Nobody noticed she was gone for 2 years? Nobody else noticed that this guy had a woman on his toilet for two years? This makes no sense at all.
{"commentId":1570827,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"spookybf"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":1570705,"authorDomain":"lkeithlutz"}
Honestly one of the most bizarre things I have ever read about in my life.
{"commentId":1570705,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"lkeithlutz"}
- 5 votes
#7 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:49 PM EDT{"commentId":1570810,"authorDomain":"DrKnow"}
How long should you allow someone to sit on your toilet before you report them?
{"commentId":1570810,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"DrKnow"}
- 6 votes
#8 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:35 PM EDT{"commentId":1570850,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
Depends on how many bathrooms in the house. If only one, I would report it real fast....
{"commentId":1570850,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":1571144,"authorDomain":"DrKnow"}
Would it be considered torture to set the food on a TV tray just outside the bathroom door?
{"commentId":1571144,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"DrKnow"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1571729,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
That might be pushing the envelop just a little bit unless you also tied a string on to it.
{"commentId":1571729,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1570959,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
Sergeant Whipple? I hope she didn't squeeze the Charmin!
{"commentId":1570959,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
- 5 votes
#9 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:23 PM EDT{"commentId":1571061,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
I hope the toilet didn't overflow....
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1572031,"authorDomain":"chasencash"}
Okay wierd wierd wierd but it was her choice. Some people actually feel safe in four walls - her boyfriend supported her choice, admittedly to her detriment because her legs are wrecked and she let her skin grow around the toilet - perhaps he thought she was being sensible enough to actually get up off the toilet. Who knows - wierd but criminal?
{"commentId":1572031,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"chasencash"}
- 1 vote
#10 - Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:44 AM EDT{"commentId":1572036,"authorDomain":"softfacts"}
So someone got stuck in a toilet for two years? Big deal. I lived in West Virginia for four. Top that.
{"commentId":1572036,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"softfacts"}
- 5 votes
#11 - Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:49 AM EDT{"commentId":1572510,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
I lived in West Virginia for four.
Whoa....4 yrs, no power, no Internet, outhouses, going to the stream for water.....that is scary ! :-)
{"commentId":1572510,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1575797,"authorDomain":"lkeithlutz"}
I wonder what this would be called, in medical terms. Surely to goodness there is something that desribes this behavior.
{"commentId":1575797,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"lkeithlutz"}
#12 - Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:06 AM EDT{"commentId":1576363,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
I think they would have to add a new one in the DSM for this one....
{"commentId":1576363,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1577541,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}
I'd call it a form of extreme agoraphobia: an anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. As a result, sufferers of agoraphobia may avoid public and/or unfamiliar places. In severe cases, the sufferer may become confined to their home, experiencing difficulty traveling from this "safe place."
* or perhaps, Separation Anxiety Disorder: Developmentally inappropriate and excessive anxiety concerning separation from home or from those to whom the individual is attached, as evidenced by three (or more) of the following.
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I have an odd manifestation of one of those disorders. I am terrified to go to new places alone. I do it anyway, if there's a good reason. But if I think I'm lost I often have panic attacks. It's not the being around new or strange people, I like people. It's the being alone in a strange place, especially driving alone. The last time I drove more than a few miles from home was Vinemeet West and it is likely I will not drive anywhere for the next year. ::sigh:: My chest tightens up just thinking about it.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":1577776,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
But if I think I'm lost I often have panic attacks.
Ever thought of getting a GPS ? They are pretty cheap now and will tell you exactly where you are and one button push and it will tell you exactly how to get home again.
That helped a friend of mine that had a hard time going more then a few miles away from home as he also had the same type of panic feeling.
I kinda agree on the agoraphobia on this one. However I heard they are thinking of pressing charges against the boyfriend, I am not sure what kind however.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1577824,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}
Ever thought of getting a GPS ? They are pretty cheap now and will tell you exactly where you are and one button push and it will tell you exactly how to get home again.
It's on my list. In the short term, I make my son do all the driving. :D
{"commentId":1577824,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"gwenny"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1577864,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
Ah...good idea...Make the kid work :-)
{"commentId":1577864,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1594363,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}
Discover explains How the Heck Did a Woman Become Fused to a Toilet Seat?
{"commentId":1594363,"threadId":"233549","contentId":"1361304","authorDomain":"gwenny"}
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