The woman in the bathroom...
Mar. 12th, 2008 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hdsqrlIn case you've not seen or heard this yet: http://www.hutchnews.com/Todaystop/toilet2008-03-11T20-13-03
Short version, not that the article is long, is that a woman sat on her boyfriend's toilet for 2 years, and somehow became fused to the toilet, and he just RECENTLY got her some help.
Short version, not that the article is long, is that a woman sat on her boyfriend's toilet for 2 years, and somehow became fused to the toilet, and he just RECENTLY got her some help.
Okay, so, mental illness has to be a factor, true. BUT!
How does something like this happen? Girl comes over, says she needs to use the john, and heads for the bathroom. Rolling with the benefit of the doubt, let's say she's got a nasty case of food poisoning or something, and she's in there for an hour. Maybe she tries to get up, but feels like she's still got to go, so she sits back down. She gets thirsty and asks him to bring her a drink of water, and he does, worried about her hydration level. Hours go by, and she asks him to run down to the corner and pick her up a value meal or make her a bowl of soup or something. At this point, shouldn't he be worried enough about her to see if she needs to see a doctor? And even if she insists she'll be fine, and hey, let's even give him a couple of DAYS to roll with this, because, true, people can be stubborn, you KNOW she's not locked herself in because he's admitted to bringing her food and water...but two years?
And the other thing that I can't wrap my brain around is this: How does one become bound to the toilet by natural means? If the girl is eating and drinking on her own, and as the article makes no mention of any paralysis that might make moving on her own impossible, becoming bound to a toilet isn't something that happens overnight. At some point, you've got to FEEL that something's not quite right down there in the butt-and-thigh area, so wouldn't you at least shift your weight or SOMEthing to prevent that from happening? Even imagining the worst case of (please put down your lunch at this point) maybe she couldn't flush and the toilet contents built up so high that it actually TOUCHED her (hey, have you been in the portapotties out at the Haunted Houses each year? That HAPPENS), the smell would have had to have been so great that the boyfriend should have done something WAY before it became an issue of her becoming One With the Toilet.
It all just boggles my mind.
Note, if you will, the sheriff's name in this case is Whipple. Hah. So if this turns out to be a big joke, there's your foreshadowing for the day. But if it's REAL...?
Someone enlighten me, please.
How does something like this happen? Girl comes over, says she needs to use the john, and heads for the bathroom. Rolling with the benefit of the doubt, let's say she's got a nasty case of food poisoning or something, and she's in there for an hour. Maybe she tries to get up, but feels like she's still got to go, so she sits back down. She gets thirsty and asks him to bring her a drink of water, and he does, worried about her hydration level. Hours go by, and she asks him to run down to the corner and pick her up a value meal or make her a bowl of soup or something. At this point, shouldn't he be worried enough about her to see if she needs to see a doctor? And even if she insists she'll be fine, and hey, let's even give him a couple of DAYS to roll with this, because, true, people can be stubborn, you KNOW she's not locked herself in because he's admitted to bringing her food and water...but two years?
And the other thing that I can't wrap my brain around is this: How does one become bound to the toilet by natural means? If the girl is eating and drinking on her own, and as the article makes no mention of any paralysis that might make moving on her own impossible, becoming bound to a toilet isn't something that happens overnight. At some point, you've got to FEEL that something's not quite right down there in the butt-and-thigh area, so wouldn't you at least shift your weight or SOMEthing to prevent that from happening? Even imagining the worst case of (please put down your lunch at this point) maybe she couldn't flush and the toilet contents built up so high that it actually TOUCHED her (hey, have you been in the portapotties out at the Haunted Houses each year? That HAPPENS), the smell would have had to have been so great that the boyfriend should have done something WAY before it became an issue of her becoming One With the Toilet.
It all just boggles my mind.
Note, if you will, the sheriff's name in this case is Whipple. Hah. So if this turns out to be a big joke, there's your foreshadowing for the day. But if it's REAL...?
Someone enlighten me, please.
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Date: 2008-03-12 03:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-12 04:36 pm (UTC)Wow.
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Date: 2008-03-12 04:45 pm (UTC)Here's my thought, nasty as it may be: I'm not interested in my tax dollars being used to try to "rehabilitate" either of them. As Ron White says, "You cain't fix stupid."
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Date: 2008-03-12 04:57 pm (UTC)*shudder* I don't want to think about how this shit happens.
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:06 pm (UTC)Hope snopes.com checks this out.
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:24 pm (UTC)