So I've got this great idea for a screenplay.
The story goes like this...
Due to severe beatings she had received as a child, a thirty-something year old woman develops a strange phobia and doesn't leave the bathroom for two years.
I know, bizarre, yes?
It gets more interesting.
The woman spends the majority of her time on the toilet. Yes, on the toilet.
In fact, she spends SO much time on the toilet that she becomes unable to remove herself from the commode.
Her boyfriend suspects something is wrong and tries to get her to come out from the bathroom each day, but she resists and he just brings her food and water as needed.
Eventually, the police are alerted and the woman and attached toilet seat are taken to a hospital where the seat is somehow removed.
Meanwhile, the woman's leg muscles are so atrophied that she may never walk again.
Now before you go thinking that I am completely warped, you should know this.
The story demonstrates that truth is stranger than fiction, because I didn't make this up.
I'm absolutely amazed that something like this could even take place.
I mean, there are some pretty bizarre stories out there.
Just today there was a story about 800 dogs being seized from a triple-wide trailer home in Arizona. Yes, eight hundred, along with seventy or so caged birds.
And you can regularly find stories like this on bizarre news sites.
But this one really floors me.
Two years on the toilet.
Wow.
It's easy to make all kinds of scatalogical jokes about this poor woman, but I don't want to participate in that. I'm just amazed that it happened at all and I feel sorry for her.
But there is a joke built into the story which I am not sure anyone has spotted.
The name of the Ness County Sheriff interviewed by the Associated Press is Bryan Whipple.
Yes, that is like Mr. Whipple, the fictional grocery store clerk that often scolded women in his store by telling them "Don't squeeze the Charmin!"
Truth is truly stranger than fiction.
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March 14, 2008 01:22 AM
Thanxalot for sharing such a tragic abd ironis story, Joel
No jokes today. Just take time to reflect and be thankful....
God Bless her and all who read this blog article. Peace.
March 14, 2008 02:32 AM
A BIG THANKS JOEL
March 15, 2008 11:12 AM
They are thinking of charging the boyfriend. They should charge the girl with trespassing.
The boyfriend is an enabler. All he had to do was to stop feeding her. She would eventually get up. He is about as bizarre as she is. They were made for each other. They ought to make a movie. It would be a love story, and it would involve only one set.
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March 31, 2008 04:26 PM
i read and then dismissed this story at first but then when I see that the guy is being charged I have to stop and say wait a damn minute. Of course the system is going to jump on anything they possibly can in an effort to get more people involved in their godless system all the time telling you they are over loaded. But just today I realized what this guy just might have gone through. My mother is 87, my dad 88, mother is in the last stages of alzheimers or dementia or just crazy, take your pick but bottom line is that we can't get her to do anything, i mean anything. We can't get her up to bath her, she refuses so my dad has to bath her there in the bed. I just bought a $400 mattress when i brought them here to live with me and she has a habit of hanging her butt over the edge of the bed literally defying the law of gravity and so when she pee's, which she's doing all the time because she won't get the hell up and use the potty right next to the bed, it has run down the edge of the matress cover which is only plastic on the top and cloth on the sides and now the matress, box springs and even the floor is just horribly soiled. Person after person gives you different numbers to call for help, you call, they take all the info and listen to you and then they don't do a damn thing.
April 2, 2008 08:38 AM
I can't believe that they can charge the guy for something like this. It seems like nobody is held accountable for any of their actions anymore, but somebody else is. It's the same with video games where parents blame the industry for their problems, when in fact they are just bad parents and want to find a reason to justify why their kids are so bad.