Could have been worse
Posted on 04/07/2011 10:26:28 AM PDT by JoeProBono
ELKTON, Md.- A man who sat on a glue-covered toilet seat in a Maryland Walmart suffered minor injuries but authorities said the perpetrator of the prank could land in jail.
The prank was actually a day early for April Fools' Day, CNN reported. Police, paramedics and firefighters were summoned to the store in Elkton Thursday, March 31, at about 7 p.m. EDT.
Firefighters spent 15 minutes getting the victim off the john. The victim, identified only as a 48-year-old man, had to be taken to Union Hospital of Cecil County with the toilet seat still glued to his rear end, Lt. Matthew Donnelly of the Elkton Police Department said.
The seat was finally removed at the hospital, leaving the man with only minor injuries.
Donnelly said the person who carried out the prank could be charged with second-degree assault. Investigators say the attack appears to have been someone's idea of fun and the victim was simply unlucky.
Could have been worse
The good news is that it was only glue.
Super-Gluing skin to an object is not a prank - it’s assault.
Saran-tape on the toilet, is a prank.
Vaseline on the lid of the bowl, is a prank.
Filling a hair dryer with foot powder is a prank
Gluing a quarter to the sidewalk is a prank.
Anything that is intended to cause harm, is NOT a prank. It’s not that difficult to see the difference.
Super-Gluing skin to an object is not a prank - it’s assault.
Saran-tape on the toilet, is a prank.
Vaseline on the lid of the bowl, is a prank.
Filling a hair dryer with foot powder is a prank
Gluing a quarter to the sidewalk is a prank.
Anything that is intended to cause harm, is NOT a prank. It’s not that difficult to see the difference.
WHO.....sits on a bare, public toilet? Good grief! He would have been clued to the prank if he’d just used the paper protectors they provide.
WHO.....sits on a bare, public toilet? Good grief! He would have been clued to the prank if he’d just used the paper protectors they provide.
oops... I hiccuped. :)
Super glue drys really fast. The guy must have seen the perp exit the bathroom. Not much of a time interval between the setup.
Response: One hopes so.
the glue may have actually protected the man from toilet seat cooties
Many years ago there was a true incident involving a large woman who got, well “stuck” in a toilet seat aboard an airliner..I think is was American. She had to land in that position, and it took rescue workers about 30 minutes to dislarge her....She got a lifetime pass from the airline..
Not as well as the paper protector...and it would have been a lot less humiliating....
U.S. woman in airplane toilet ordeal
High-pressure vacuum flush sealed woman to toilet seat
OSLO, Jan. 21 — An American woman had no need to fasten her seatbelt on a flight from Scandinavia to the United States after a high-pressure vacuum flush sealed her to the toilet seat of the transatlantic airliner.
THE WOMAN filed a complaint with Scandinavian Airlines System after her ordeal on a Boeing 767 flight last year.
She got sucked in after pushing the flush button while seated, activating a system to clean the toilet by vacuum, the airline said on Monday.
“She could not get up by herself and had to sit on the toilet until the flight had landed so that ground technicians could help her get loose,” a SAS spokeswoman said. “She was stuck there for quite a long time.”
Someone who really has to go,right now!!!
LOL... that’s horrible! (but funny)
They can't stop 2 seconds and apply the protector before they sit? Really?
I'll bet a dollar that the victim set this up for a pay-day.
I’m calling BS. Who actually sits on a public toilet seat without either wiping it off with TP, or putting one of those stupid paper gaskets down?
Mythbusters busted this a LONG time ago
How about shooting someone off of a toilet with a fire hose? The expression on the face right before you open up the nozzle is priceless.
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