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A man who came to the aid of his neighbour a week after she became trapped in her toilet says he wishes he could have helped sooner.
The 67-year-old Ipswich woman was wedged so badly - with her feet on either side of the toilet bowl and the door opening inwards - that she was unable to free herself and spent the week calling for help.
Woman, 67, stuck in toilet for a week
Seeded on Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:22 AM EDT
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I don't know the details, but it's reasonable to assume she may loose her legs.
#2 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:02 AM EDTI can imagine her back must have been killing her by that time... I hope for her sake the bathroom sink was at close enough reach to at least get a drink of water.... can't imagine trying to live off of toothpaste for a week
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#3 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:38 AM EDTI'm pretty sure she could get water somehow. She'd have been dead within a few days without water.
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She's sitting on a toilet. Of course she could get water. Idiots.
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I wonder if she was rescued by Mel Gibson...
There she was, finally time alone to read her favorite magazine, unraveled the toilet paper only to find a note from her grandson "Ha Ha you've been superglued!!!"
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Super glue + note on toilet paper = great mind. Great, great comment! You live up to your name entertainer1959.
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Penni: and a song just entered my mind. I know, I know... I couldn't help it!! :O
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That was actually a scene from Lethal Weapon 3 I think....
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Bob Dylan, Woodstock, 1969. Great year. As my kids say, "Kewl'.
I'm sitting here listening to Disco Duck. Talk about a classic. I really dig (we are in 1969, right), that one. Always send me Dylan links, he's my dude. Always, forever, Ms. Penni Dylan...
Tonight, I get enough quiet (I'm in a hotel) to have sweet dreams. A 30 year old Bob and I will be having a happening all night long (thanks to Lionel). BIG FAT LOL.
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I'm having trouble picturing how this is possible. I mean how (I want details) could this happen? Stuck in the toilet? Truth is stranger than fiction.
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#4 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDTWhy wait for the facts when we can speculate? My guess would be that she fell on her butt facing the toilet (legs on either side) with her back against the door and was in poor enough physical condition that she was unable to get up and unable to open the door wide enough to escape her prison.
Can you picture that?
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Unfortunately, I can picture it too well. I have coined a new IM shortcut -- SML (Scrubbing Mind Online). All can use it freely, with my blessing. This is for sure a SML moment.
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I think that when it says her legs were on either side of the toilet she was actually sitting on the toilet righg and her legs were spread cuz she was not sitting on the potty going potty. She was sitting on the potty with her dirty magazine doing something else entirely.
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I don't believe she was stuck in there for a week. A week is a pretty vague answer for a length of time anyhow. It's like saying, 'I'll be there in a second', which is obviously impossible as it takes more than a second to say that phrase. She would have been dead after a few days. She may have stuck herself in the toilet and started crying for help for a few hours for attention from family members if she is a lonely person or she was really stuck in there on accident and been no more than a few days till help arrived. The only witness as to how long and how she was stuck in the toilet is herself. The other witness only helped her out of the toilet.
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#6 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:58 PM EDTruthlessmoose,
'Isn't a week 7 days? I thought that was pretty definite.'
I'm just saying people like to round up or down to either exaggerate or nullify a situation that has or is occurring. In this case I believe the woman may have exaggerated the amount of time she allegedly was in there, rounded the time up to a week, to make it appear more serious.
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Well then she should have gone for a month and gotten a TV spot! lol
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celphone, it goes where I go, even to the jonny, living alone can be a problem, but if you use your head and not you bxxx, then having the celphone with you, is the answer, even if you can not afford $60.00 bucks a month, then purchase one of the pay as you go, and ONLY use it for an emergency. Was someone over weight, ??????.
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#9 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:27 PM EDTbxxx? whats bxxx? is it xutt? cuz xutt, bxtt, butx, buxt is not a bad word? is it?
Topdog2: celphone, it goes where I go, even to the jonny, living alone can be a problem
I totally agree with you on that one, I have been living alone since March and I take the cellphone to the bathroom & to bed just in case of emergencies. You never know when you may be stuck to a toilet or wake up to a prowler.......good advice to keep your cellphone where your home phone won't reach.
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someone left the lid up and she didn't notice it and got wedged in.
That is my 2 cents.
#10 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:05 PM EDTHaving read and re-read what it says, I can only assume that she went into the toilet, closed the door behind her, then had some sort of stroke and she slid down the door and her legs went either side of the pan, but to say she was in there for a week without food and drink is unbelievable!!!! If she was able to reach water to drink from the sink then she wouldn't be wedged as she claims, and there is NO way she would survive without food and drink for a week, having said that she could have eaten her own faeces and sucked the urine out of her clothes, but if she wasn't eating food she wouldn't have any faeces after a couple of days unless she was extremely obese
#11 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:23 PM EDTHelp!!! I've fallen and can't get out of the john ::splash:: Now where the devil did I put that life alert button?
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P.S. that's kinda disgusting -- I'm certain that if the bathroom was that small she could have been right next to the sink.... however, I was making the same point but having to publish the "menu" wasn't really necessary was it?
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Think outhouse. A pit toilet is exactly what it sounds like. You go #2 into a hole. (At least, I believe thats what he's referring to.)
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Anyone who lives in a city and has an outhouse in this day and age... deserves to get stuck in it... gross.
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Maybe she was trying really hard to squeeze one out, pushed her legs against the wall for leverage and threw out her back reaching to turn the fan on. Solved it in the first 48
#14 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:06 PM EDTLOL......oh you guys got me LMAO.....maybe she had one of those Peanut Butter Bricks that stick so hard you have to strain until your face turns red and she grabbed the door knob for leverage.
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Consider the woman who was stuck to her boyfriends toilet in Whitchita Kansas for 2 years until her skin started to grow around the seat. She had to be physically removed from the toilet with a crowbar and taken to the hospital to have the seat surgically separated from her. (Article can be found by googling "woman stuck to toilet seat".
#15 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:14 PM EDTI have cared for several people that were unable to get up from a toliet for hours to days its not that uncommon
#16 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:03 PM EDTThat reminds me of the old song:
"Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Seven old ladies, stuck in the lavatory
They were there from Sunday to Saturday,
And nobody knew they were there"
No, seriously. I am glad someone was able to get to her on time.
#18 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:31 PM EDTSomebody's GOTTA write the screenplay! Please, help me pick the cast members......
#19 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:19 PM EDTWoman, 67, stuck in toilet for a week
Never Never eat kangaroo meat from a streetvender.
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#20 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:35 PM EDTun-beleivable...and i meant "un-beleivable' wanted her 15 minutes of fame....
#21 - Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:44 AM EDTI wonder how many other people got stuck trying to recreate the scenario so they could figure out how it happened?
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#22 - Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:23 AM EDTFirst thing I would do after resting up,is knock out a wall OR what ever it took to make the bathroom large enough to enter and exit! wow I can only imagne how she felt sore throat from screaming for help and a very sore butt from sitting' poor Lady..her legs must have gone numb I hope she didn't get loose any body parts from all this..
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#23 - Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:00 AM EDTThis sounds like a extract from Michael Jacksons Thriller!!!!!!!!!!!
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#24 - Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:55 AM EDTLike MJ and his girl are coming out of the scary movie, and they come across an old lady stuck on the pot. He moon walks right up to the crapper, and then...
Next... poster, I did my part. LOL
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he howls again, as he catches a look at the lady's full moon, which is on full display, scaring the poor woman, making her lose her balance and sending her deeper into the can, which now has her on a death grip and won't let go.
And of course, upon hearing her blood-curdling scream...
(Next poster!--I too, have done my part for the screenplay... :)
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he breaks out into the dance, and a bunch of other old, beastly looking zombie people that had died from being stuck on toilets. The lady is of course freaking out, and her struggles seem quite futile.
Slowly, the dancing zombie toileteers edge closer, when....
(Someone else's turn!)
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Now now let's put everything in perspective. If she could not free herself by using her arms & hands to push against the toilet seat to get up, assuming she sunk pretty deep, sores would develop aound her butt & thighs and even her lower back. How could this man be able to free her without causing more injury? I could see her flesh tearing apart when he tries to lift her up. Is there more to this story? Fire Dept & medics not involved in the rescue? If not, I say this is bs.
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