This just amazes me.

[belquar]

How someone can just sit idly by watching someone else sit idly by to the detriment of their health when you supposedly care for them just amazes me.

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- A 35-year-old woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.

"She is an adult; she made her own decision," said her boyfriend, Kory McFarren. "I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it."

The case drew nationwide attention after Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat in the two years she apparently was in the bathroom.

"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."

McFarren, 36, said he can't be certain how long Pam Babcock stayed in the bathroom because "time just went by so quick I can't pinpoint how long." He said beatings she received in her childhood caused her phobia.

"It just kind of happened one day; she went in and had been in there a little while, the next time it was a little longer. Then she got it in her head she was going to stay -- like it was a safe place for her," McFarren said.

But McFarren said she moved around in the bathroom during that time, bathed and changed into the clothes he brought her. He brought food and water to her. They had conversations and had an otherwise normal relationship -- except it all happened in the bathroom.

McFarren said he finally called police February 27 after he became worried because Babcock was acting groggy -- like she didn't know what was going on, except she was awake.

What emergency responders found when they went into bathroom has left residents of this small western Kansas town buzzing, and law enforcement officials incredulous.

Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said.

"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."

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.

"She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave," he said.

Whipple said the county attorney will determine whether any charges should be filed against McFarren.

McFarren, who works at an antique store, said he has been taking care of Babcock for the 16 years they have lived together. He insisted that he tried to coax her out of the bathroom every day.

"And her reply would be, `Maybe tomorrow,"' Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

She was reported in fair condition Wednesday 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.

Babcock has an infection in her legs that has damaged her nerves, and there is a possibility she may wind up in a wheelchair, McFarren said.

James Ellis, a neighbor, said he had known the woman since she was a child, but that he had not seen her for at least six years.

"I don't think anybody can make any sense out of it," Ellis said.

Babcock had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up, he said.

"It really doesn't surprise me," Ellis said. "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier."

 

[sheridesabeemer]

I'll take a guess that neither of them think as clearly as we do.
"after a while, you kind of get used to it."

 

[tourunigo]

I just finished reading that in our local paper. Very strange. Two years? Even with my twisted imagination I cannot conjur up an image that makes any sense. Likely a basket full of issues led to this. Maybe it wasn't two years but it must have felt like it. Sad really. -Bob

 

[R80RTJohnny]

In twenty or thirty years this will sound like an urban legend. Let's not judge them too fast as they may have other issues that have not come out yet. No pun intended.

I wish them well and hope that they both get the help that they deserve.

That being said my wife can no longer complain about my bathroom time.

 

[tessler]

It sounds like a Samuel Beckett play.

 

[mrich12000]

nutbars..

 

[hlothery]

Try this at home

OK.....everyone try this at home tonight. Try to sleep while sitting on a toilet. That, there, is some real talent!

 

[belquar]

OK.....everyone try this at home tonight. Try to sleep while sitting on a toilet. That, there, is some real talent!

Thank goodness it wasn't during the digital revolution, but there once was a picture of me passed out on a toilet in the Army. Imagine that statue of The Thinker....

That was me. buck naked. passed out on the can. My roomate stacked all our empties in around me and took a picture.

Ahhh the memories of the wild days.

 

[OHScot]

Please do not post pictures.

 

[Rapid_Roy]

I could make jokes here, but I don't want to. It seems too sad.
I think after a day, I would be calling somebody, maybe sooner, for my wife.

My son is 13, and if he spends a long time in the bathroom, I'd rather not think about it.

 

[aerialfilm1]

OK.....everyone try this at home tonight. Try to sleep while sitting on a toilet. That, there, is some real talent!

Obviously you're not a drinker

 

[WEZUL]

What he said.

 

[bubbagazoo]

OK.....everyone try this at home tonight. Try to sleep while sitting on a toilet. That, there, is some real talent!

Sleeping while "sitting" on the toilet - never done it. Sitting in front of toilet with head on the seat and sleeping - guilty. I would like to say I remember that party but ...

 

[RTRandy]

Call me crazy, but you can accomplish a lot in there if you put your mind to it.

With this and a Sunday newspaper there's no tellen what you could do in there.

 

[JSCORTINO]

2 years on the pot

I'd hate to see the ecoli count on that keyboard

 

[hlothery]

Obviously you're not a drinker

Wait a minute, now! I'm not sayin' I never feel asleep on a toilet (with some help from my old friend Miller Lite), but I woke up and went to bed after the fall!

 

[mrich12000]

this is wild

Kansas Police: Woman Pried From Boyfriend's Toilet After Sitting on It for 2 Years
Wednesday, March 12, 2008



Hate when that happens

wow

 

[rocketman]

OK.....everyone try this at home tonight. Try to sleep while sitting on a toilet. That, there, is some real talent!

When I worked a division of McGraw Hill back in the late 70's in Dc there was a guy that worked there that would sleep in the bathroom all the time, he'd prop up his legs against the door so you couldn't see if feet and snooze for hours, but since You could here him snoring all the way down the hall outside, which kind of negated his effort to hide by rasing his feet. HaHa!
He got away with it simply because he was mentally challenged and was hired on as "go-for" office runner, thru the DC employment office for ÔÇ£special needsÔÇØ type individuals.
Talented? well I donÔÇÖt know about that, but dedicated to avoiding work, most decidedly! Ha Ha!

RM

 

[ctrod]

Sounds like a good story for Paul Harvey--and now you know the rest of the story

 

[The_Veg]

When I worked a division of McGraw Hill back in the late 70's in Dc there was a guy that worked there that would sleep in the bathroom all the time, he'd prop up his legs against the door so you couldn't see if feet and snooze for hours, but since You could here him snoring all the way down the hall outside, which kind of negated his effort to hide by rasing his feet. HaHa!
He got away with it simply because he was mentally challenged and was hired on as "go-for" office runner, thru the DC employment office for ÔÇ£special needsÔÇØ type individuals.
Talented? well I donÔÇÖt know about that, but dedicated to avoiding work, most decidedly! Ha Ha!

RM

Sounds like when I worked in a large mainframe data-storage facility some years ago. The place was a 24-7 operation, and weekend shifts bored me to tears. I often amused myself by trying to find good places for covert naps. One time I crawled into a disused Storagetek Timberline automated tape-library unit:

Not so good actually, as the space inside was mostly taken up by the tape-storage racks and left only a narrow cruved space in which my big strapping self couldn't get very comfy:

I also tried napping standing up inside an equipment-cabinet that was just the right narrow size for it to be theoretically possible...but it still was no good. The eventual solution was to just go find an empty office with comfy furniture.