Bob Dougherty, 57, accused employees of ignoring his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding.

"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The Daily Camera, of Boulder. "They just let me rot."

The lawsuit, filed Friday, said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck at the store in Louisville, Colorado, on the day before Halloween 2003.

A store employee who heard him calling for help informed the head clerk by radio, but the head clerk "believed it to be a hoax," the lawsuit said.

Home Depot spokeswoman Kathryn Gallagher said she could not comment on pending litigation.

The lawsuit said store officials called for an ambulance after about 15 minutes.

Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, and Dougherty, "frightened and humiliated," passed out as they wheeled him out of the store, court papers said. The toilet seat separated from his skin, leaving abrasions.

Here's my thought about this, and I'll try to be delicate about it as possible: why would a guy, ummm, be doing business at Home Depot that would require you to be sitting down? I'd have to be on the verge of, well, a mess to do that.

Lycoris

Toronto, ON

October 2005

NOV 04, 2005 09:01 AM

Paper your seats, kids! Safety first!

undeserving

Newnan, GA

October 2004

NOV 04, 2005 09:05 AM

he probably was one the verge of a mess if he was in enough of a hurry to not notice GLUE ON THE TOILET SEAT!

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK

August 2002

NOV 04, 2005 09:06 AM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 10 points for the title alone.

blauenaugen

Takoma Park, MD

July 2005

NOV 04, 2005 09:06 AM

Snopes

A professor who used a public lavatory in Nottingham found that he could not remove himself from the seat. After making suitable efforts and wondering what he should do, he called the attendant who, once he had broken down the door, ascertained that the professor was stuck to the seat with superglue - the work of vandals. A mechanic was called in to unscrew the seat, and then an ambulance to take the prof and the seat to hospital. When the ambulance men arrived they laughed so much that they dropped the stretcher, causing the professor to further suffer a broken leg.

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

NOV 04, 2005 09:07 AM

What a perfect title, Jake.

[Edited on Nov 04, 2005 by PointBlank]

sirloins

Huntington Beach, CA

October 2005

NOV 04, 2005 09:07 AM

Home Depot... I know first hand that they have some pretty powerful adhesives and epoxies. Heh, good stuff..

orehitna

Calgary, AB

March 2005

NOV 04, 2005 09:07 AM

the only things i could see would be if he was in the washroom, which would make sense, or if he was wearing shorts.

which shouldn't make much sense, unless they were shorty shorts.

and then he deserves to be glued to a toilet seat.

mydogfarted

Oakland, NJ

June 2003

NOV 04, 2005 09:10 AM

This version of the story has him claiming that the stress caused him to develop diabetes...

Jake, I don't know what your experience is with Home Depot, but the ones around my house have such horrible service that it makes me so angry I could shit!

Cassiel

Aurora, CO

September 2004

NOV 04, 2005 09:12 AM

I blame the altitude.