Thursday, March 13, 2008

She was on the toilet for 2 years?!


FoxNews reports that "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.""

11 comments:

Henson Ray said...

I can't even begin to tell you how disturbing I found this article. The description of the skin growing around the toilet ball is, unfortunately, an image that will now stick with me for the rest of my life.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like both she and her boyfriend need psychiatric help.

Anonymous said...

I agree they both need help this is a clear sign of a mental emergency.

justjudith said...

uh...it's so fantastical it sounds made up. an ingrown toilet seat? blech.

Televisiontraci said...

This story is compleely unbelievable to me. First of all I read somewhere that she wasn't sitting for the full two years that at one point she was just living in the bathroom that she would eat, change clothes, and bath. At what point did she sit down and decide not to stand up? I know sitting in one place can be uncomfortable after a while. Did she get cramps in her legs? What prevented her from standing?

I don't know I think there is more to this story than what has been released. I just waiting for the rest to come out.

Beth Anderson said...

This was the topic of conversation at work today! 2 years and she still had a boyfriend? Don't you think at some point he would have said, "Honey, I don't think this relationship is going anywhere."

Mom Watch said...

The depths at which crazy can take some people is frightening.

Kimba The White Lioness said...

Obviously, they had more than one bathroom in the house!

=P

Shine said...

Oh Gosh, I am glad somebody get her out of there, she most have been very afraid of going out, what could be the reason?, it will be intresting knowing the whole story, I hope she gets psicologic help and somebody ask the boyfriend why he allow this to happen... Disturbing in did. so Sad.

waliz said...

i cant imagine it either...how she sleeps and changing clothes? and eat in the toilet too? hmmm...

Fantasy Writer Guy said...

Gross!

So he was pissing in the kitchen sink for two years?