Headline of the year so far....

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Sherriff: Woman sat on toilet for 2 years

http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20080312/NEWS/941540930/-1/rss02

Disgusting story

So weird, but so convenient.

What a freak!

Here's my first thought. Man, can you imagine what she smells like??????

spectrefate wrote:

Here's my first thought. Man, can you imagine what she smells like??????

- My thoughts, exactly - And did she brush her teeth? 'cause if she didn't......oh, dear lord!

How can someone let that happen....

Am I the only one that finds it hysterical that the officer in charge of a toilet case is named "Whipple"?

Oh and this one:

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Authorities said they did not know if she was mentally or physically disabled.

I vote yes on that first part.

I'd say theres a little bit of mental disablility there

What about the sex??

That boyfriend is a winner I bet!!

From a responders POV, I bet this was a gem. I'm sure the call came in as a general illness or something and the responders get there and realize a person has been physically attached to a toilet seat. I'm sure they were fighting over who was going to cut the toilet seat free.

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From a responders POV, I bet this was a gem. I'm
sure the call came in as a general illness or something and the
responders get there and realize a person has been physically attached
to a toilet seat. I'm sure they were fighting over who was going to cut the toilet seat free.

You know it! Good call! I've never seen something like this but, man, it gets "interesting" out there!

I've been at the Station in the most "well-to-do" district the last 2 1/2 years so we get old people out the wazoo, divas, spazzing brats and car wrecks but not much of the really hideous things. HOWEVER, once in a while I'm taken a-back. When your LT says "her jaw is gone" you better take him seriously!!

scottmitchell74 wrote:

When your LT says "her jaw is gone" you better take him seriously!!

I bet that's a pleasant story.

spectrefate wrote:

scottmitchell74 wrote:

When your LT says "her jaw is gone" you better take him seriously!!

I bet that's a pleasant story.

I'd like to hear that one

If she was stuck to the toilet, where did her boyfriend go????

kmorg wrote:

If she was stuck to the toilet, where did her boyfriend go????

Ever heard of watersports?

The last three posts....................SICKIES!!!



We get a call for an 'injured subject'.....something like that. Well, people are forever saying that when it is merely just a "flesh wound" or something basic.

Well, the LT gets to the door first because he jumps right off and heads to the scene while the guys in the back get the bags. I watched him turn the corner, take a look, and not really blanche - but he had this sort of "huh?" look - and as calm as can be said "Her jaw's gone." I see some blood droplets outside but what he said doesn't compute. I figure he meant it's been broken or smashed by a fist (domestic dispute...something) but as I round the corner I see this woman kneeling there. Her jaw is literally gone.

From just below her nose and down - gone! Her lower jaw (mandible) and all her teeth are all over the floor. You can look into her mouth and see the jagged edges of her mandible way back at the rounded bony part. (Feel your jaw line and go back toward the base of your skull - it was blown off to about that bony curve). The flesh is everywhere. Blood everywhere. She's looking up at me with "What's next?" and I just look down at her. She's alive, lucid and just looking. So I just start talking. That's what you do anyhow. At least one person just talks. It distracts them. We can't really do anything. Her mouth, lips, cheeks and everything are splayed out and she has a sort of "squid person" look. We can't even intubate because she's breathing fine and conscious so she'd have a gag-reflex. She has no jaw to open anyhow, so if we had to intubate it would be a sort of blind jab into the hole. So was just keep talking. We get some guaze for the bleeding and sort of hold that to her mouth.

By then the ambulance gets there and this one young medic starts spazzing so me - so young but the senior guy none-the-less - tells him to calm down because he's not being professional. It doesn't help the victim at all when a medic is spazzing.

We ride along n the ambulance to the hospital and the only big concern is her airway. Her nose is swollen shut so if gunpoweder burns or just the massive trauma starts her throat swelling shut we have a problem. We don't, however, and all's well that ends well.

That was over two years ago and right now I can still tell you here SS #, her phone # and her Date Of Birth. It was burned into my mind. I got that info from her on the way to the hospital. SHE wrote it down!!! I think the event was so vivid and stark that the #'s just froze (I like #'s anyhow, but this was an extremem case).

There have been others, and maybe other threads will bring them to mind, but that one popped up when Spectre wrote what he did.


By The Way - she works as a nurse at one of the Nursing Homes we frequent and she's had a bazillion surgeries and amazingly looks pretty normal. You can clearly tell something has happened, but she looks like a scarred her - if that makes sense. I think she has a titanium jaw now. Weird.

That's a seriously bad call you had there, scott.

I was a 911 operator for years and its one thing to take the call on a phone, but to go and complete the call is a whole other thing.

Alot of people think firefighters are just there to put out fires and do nothing else. But there is a fire unit that goes to every medical call as well (at least that's how it is here) and those FFs take care of patients just as much as paramedics and never are given credit. I almost bet that FFs took care of this lady on the john and cut her free and the paramedics just transported her. FFs are the workhorses of the emergency repsponse industry, methinks, and they are the true heroes.

Wow Scott, you are the man. I seriously could not do what you do and blood doesn't really bother me.

And to the original post. Is two years even possible? Wouldn't blood flow to the legs stop?

I read part of another article where her legs had atrophied. Wow.

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Alot of people think firefighters are just there to put out fires and do nothing else. But there is a fire unit that goes to every medical call as well (at least that's how it is here) and those FFs take care of patients just as much as paramedics and never are given credit.

That's right. We're what's known as "First Responders" because there are more Fire Stations then Ambulance stations so we usually get there first....sometimes significantly.....especially when all the ambulances are already on another call.


Spectre.....kind words. We can be workhorses, but I've only felt truly herioc about twice the last 8 years and once was off duty. It's a good job, I'm proud to do it, but alas it's still a job.




Etomb- Almost everybody says that.....but I believe almost anyone can do it. Some guys (it's rare) truly get scarred but I've noticed a disconnect - almost an "out of body" feeling I get. I don't think it's unhealthy, either, because I don't have dream, rashes, sleeplessness - nothing. HOWEVER, IF I do have the old "Me, Myself and Irene" freak out like Jim Carrey I'm makin' a B-Line to Naches!!! I haven't met my "other" self yet, but I bet he's baaaaaad!!

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And to the original post. Is two years even possible? Wouldn't blood flow to the legs stop?

I wondered this as well. I wonder if she is a "big" woman and maybe the fatty tissue took the brunt of the sitting and arteries weren't cut off??

The end result of this story would be interesting. Maybe Oprah will visit?

Wonder what Dr. Phil would say.

LADY,you have to get off the damn toilet! It's starting to really stink in here.