59 year old, Bob Dougherty, is suing Home Depot for not giving him the proper service he needed. Aparently Mr. Dougherty became glued to a toilet seat in the store and the employees failed to help him. Now Mr. Dougherty claims that the incident threw him into a diabetic coma.

The man, who’s been in the intensive-care unit since he was admitted a week ago, was “doing OK” and able to walk again, according to hospital officials. But Cohen, Dougherty’s attorney, said that his client has had some rough days. “I spoke with him this morning, and he’s doing better,” Cohen said. “But when I went and visited him on the 19th, he was in a heavy fog. He recognized me at one point and said, ‘Is that you, Mark?’ ”

Home Depot officials have filed a court motion with a Denver judge asking that the case be dismissed. Dougherty’s lawsuit alleges that, in 2003, he entered a bathroom stall in the Louisville Home Depot and couldn’t stand up because someone had put glue on the seat. When Dougherty called out to employees for help, they thought his pleas were a hoax, according to the lawsuit, and eventually fire and ambulance crews had to unbolt the toilet seat while it was still attached to Dougherty.

As he was being wheeled out of the store on a gurney, Dougherty passed out and paramedics couldn’t find a pulse. In their rush to flip him over, the seat was ripped from his flesh, causing abrasions, according to the lawsuit.

Following the 2003 incident, Dougherty said he suffered recurring nightmares and lack of sleep, which he said psychiatric consultants credited to the toilet-seat incident.

In 2005, a former Nederland official alleged that Dougherty claimed he was glued to a second toilet at the Nederland Visitor Center the previous summer. Dougherty vehemently denied that charge. But Dougherty has said in the past that the traumatic event caused him to develop post-traumatic stress disorder and diabetes, and Cohen on Monday said his client’s medical problems could come into play during the trial.

“Our contention has been that his post-traumatic stress disorder brought about his diabetic condition,” he said. “So you can say, ‘Well, this would not have occurred but for (the toilet-seat incident.)’ ”

If Dougherty were to die before the case goes to trial, Cohen said, “The law limits his (estate’s) ability to collect damages for pain and suffering.” “But he really wants to have his day in court,” Cohen said.

You have to feel sorry that the guy got glued to the toilet seat, but to say that it gave him post traumatic stress disorder is milking it for all he can. Some people are just desperate to get the money they can. Makes you wonder if he glued himself to it.

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