Maybe the craziest news story of... period

[othermike]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpMo5pdCnadyrY2ypTwfBfsPFxQwD8VC3P781

Sheriff: Woman Sat on Toilet for 2 Years

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — 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."

[dragon_drift]

=O that must've been one long crap

[Aznsilvrboy]

How does skin grow to be stuck to the seat?

[WhiteHot Light]

How does skin grow to be stuck to the seat?

Probably took the imprint of the seat and grew around it or something...:lol:

[FearSonic]

Her bum began to absorb that toilet seat.

It became one with it.

Unity.

[Valek]

I knew Digg or Reddit would somehow manage to find its way here. Skin actually growing onto the seat is more amazing than disgusting imo. Am I the only one who wants to see how skin has actually grown around a toilet seat?

[sonic]

:lol:

what a crock of sh$#....

[P__S__2]

How did she wash her hands? and what if she clogged the toilet?


LOL this is funny.

[strangeepiphany]

I knew Digg or Reddit would somehow manage to find its way here. Skin actually growing onto the seat is more amazing than disgusting imo. Am I the only one who wants to see how skin has actually grown around a toilet seat?

You're not the only one. I'm completely fascinated and want to see as well.

I'm confused though. How do you leave someone on the toilet for two years? I would have called for help in two days max.

[NDman]

She might even make the New England Journal of Medicine!! :cheesygri

[mrG]

What they failed to mention was that it was a single bathroom house. The boyfriend finally called after 2 years because he couldn't hold it in any longer.

[TimePilot]

working at Mcdonalds for 2 years or sitting on toilet for 2 years. Wonder which is worse? :lol:

Where do you find these crazy stories. I'm still trying to comprehend how you can sit on a toilet for 2 years. Well maybe possible if she had a laptop and internet access. lol

[d_jedi]

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.
wtf? :confused:

[frogger]

Gotta be pretty mentally ill to pull that off.. She didn't even pull her pants up?!?

[Valek]

That honestly must have been a pretty painful thing to go through. Sitting down on a toilet seat gets uncomfortable after like an hour, with your butt hanging in the bowl, circulation gets cut off. I've had many a sleeping leg after reading a Redwall novel on the toilet.

[ariell]

Wow. That's insane. How did she sleep? Wash? And what kind of person waits 2 years, until you're literally welded to the spot to decide it's time to call for help? I'm speechless.

[theurbancanadian]

:D So now I understand why there has been so much Wichita jokes on TV.

[Grassgreen]

I wish my mother in-law could try this...

[TapemanPL]

she has lived the dream. sitting on the toilet and just eating, doing business and sleeping all in one spot, she obviously didn't want to get off... if she had a tv in there i would be so jealous

[wisdom_kid]

I dont get it. Atleast I have a story to tell my friends :|

[ali123]

WOW Seems pretty unrealistic but very interesting... (if it's not fake..)

[board123]

Does Not Compute!

[blainehamilton]

WTF. There is no way this could be real, could it? 2 YEARS!?!

[LonesomeDove]

A crappy story, to say the least. Don't believe it. No one can sit in one spot for 2 days without moving, save for 2 years. You try sitting in one spot for a long time. Imagine how your back will feel.
Someone at Associated Press planted the story. Also, why did she have to go 150 miles to a hospital in Witchita? There must be a medical facility closer.

[blue mountain raider]

this is an early apr fools?

[Valek]

A crappy story, to say the least. Don't believe it. No one can sit in one spot for 2 days without moving, save for 2 years. You try sitting in one spot for a long time. Imagine how your back will feel.
Someone at Associated Press planted the story. Also, why did she have to go 150 miles to a hospital in Witchita? There must be a medical facility closer.

Wow, you sure are smart! :rolleyes: They said her legs atrophied, so no doubt it hurt. No one is disputing that.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_20560.aspx She didn't sit for 2 years straight.

To address your second point, it's common sense. They sent her to a hospital in Wichita because medically speaking, the hospital in Wichita was the logical choice as the medical facility there would be more likely suited to handle a case such as hers, rather than a walk in clinic from where she's from. Send them to the closest hospital that can HANDLE the case, not just the closest hospital, period.

[Emancipated]

Remember a few years ago when an obese woman's skin grafted into the couch? They had to remove the couch with her to the hospital because she was starting to get cardiac arrest. She was an absolute whale. I mean, what kind of mental disability can a person suffer from to just sit or sleep on the couch for so long that your skin becomes one with the furniture? Come on!

[cfuttlo]

Crazy woman

[Rekognize]

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[burnt_toast]

the question is: Where did he go for number 2, if she sat there for 2 years?

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that is one insane story...

[plymouthhater]

http://www.ksn.com/news/local/16611691.html?video=YHI&t=a

[st7860]

maybe she couldn't go

[dirkpitt]

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[ariell]

Remember a few years ago when an obese woman's skin grafted into the couch? They had to remove the couch with her to the hospital because she was starting to get cardiac arrest. She was an absolute whale. I mean, what kind of mental disability can a person suffer from to just sit or sleep on the couch for so long that your skin becomes one with the furniture? Come on!

Well that's kind of different. That has nothing to do with her 'mental ability'. If she was really obese then she was probably not physically capable of actually getting up.

[st7860]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/20/woman.bathroom.ap/index.html
man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom in their house, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult.

Kory McFarren, 37, was charged Monday in Ness County District Court.

McFarren called the Ness County Sheriff's Office in late February to say something was wrong with his girlfriend. When authorities arrived at the home, they found Pam Babcock, 35, stuck to the toilet, which they think she had sat on for about a month.

McFarren told authorities that Babcock feared leaving the bathroom and may not have left it in two years, although said he was unsure how long she was in there. He said that he took her food and water daily, and that he repeatedly asked her to come out but that she usually replied "maybe tomorrow."

"The only thing I am guilty of is I didn't get her help sooner," McFarren told The Associated Press nearly a week ago.

Ness County Attorney Craig Crosswhite said the mistreatment charge most closely fit the situation.

"I looked at the statutes and spoke to the attorney general's office," he said. "This was a very unusual set of circumstances, and this is the law that most closely applied to the situation."

Authorities said Babcock sat on the toilet so long that open sores developed and caused her to become attached to the seat. Sheriff Bryan Whipple has said that he used a pry bar to remove the seat from the toilet, and that the woman was taken to the hospital with the seat still attached.

"She would have to be sleeping on the toilet," Whipple said.

Doctors at a Wichita, Kansas, hospital where Babcock was taken told McFarren that an infection in her legs had damaged her nerves and could leave her in a wheelchair. She was still at the hospital Wednesday night.

McFarren's first court appearance will be in April, Crosswhite said

[Lava]

I'm speechless.