how did she survive? No shower/bath, no cloth changing, no exercise for 2 years. Why did it take the boyfriend 2 years to call the police?

he was mentally handicapped? She had a stroke?

On the other hand, what do you do if that is what someone tells you they want to do?

I want pictures.

I live in Kansas and saw this story in the Topeka paper today, but they had far less details than this article. I really, really want to know more details about this because it's so fantastically bizarre.

I hope he had another toilet in the house.

I know that I shouldn't be laughing about this, but it's just too bizarre to be true. I just checked the Topeka paper online, and they've got more details:

"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body. It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself," Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said in a telephone interview, adding that it appeared her body fat had grown attached to the seat.

Authorities planned to present their report to the county attorney later Wednesday to see if any charges should be filed against her 36-year-old boyfriend, Whipple said.

The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding he never explained why it took him two years to call.

He said the boyfriend had brought the woman food and water during the two years and told investigators he asked her daily to come out of the bathroom.

"And her reply would be, 'Maybe tomorrow,'" Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

The house had another bathroom he could use.

Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh as if she was using the toilet. Her legs looked like they had atrophied, he said.

"She was sitting on the toilet and was somewhat disoriented," Whipple said. "She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave."

She refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out. She was taken to a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City, where she is listed in fair condition. Whipple said she has refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a prybar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

http://cjonline.com/stories/031208/bre_toilet.shtml

Officer Whipple? As in Whipple of Charmin
bathroom tissue fame? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bx6Mpyi4xk&feature=related)

You couldn't make this stuff up...or maybe you could.

Yeah! Pics or it didn't happen!

I work in an ER and, on occasion, we will get patients in who fell at home, broke a hip and lay on the floor for a couple of days. The stench from two to three days of feces, urine and sweat is pretty strong...to put it mildly.

I do not want to imagine the smell of on obese womans nether regions after they had been shoved into a dark, moist area (toilet bowl) for some two odd years. I'm highly doubting she made it to the tub too often.

Thank goodness - there WAS another toilet.

It's like in the Nip/Tuck episode Momma Boone (google for it) where this old fat lady sat in her sofa for years and her skin interwove progressively with the fabric. At least this woman was in a better situation. Momma Boone had to defecate and urinate in a basket. She was a fictional character though. Not even the sick Nip/Tuck writers dared to think of a woman welded to a WC seat by two years long biochemical degradation processes.

Please someone say "April Fools!"

Reaction cat read this too:
http://jj.am/gallery/d/36722-1/original.jpg

[WARNING - while this link is SFW, the rest of jj.am is most certainly not. Seriously, some sections are probably best avoided altogether. It's just the best link I could find.]

ok, now, seriously... WHAT??

there are serious, deep issues going on there, not only with her, but with her boyfriend. i can't imagine sitting on a toilet for two HOURS, let alone two years!

Uhm Camillo, you might want to Google the name Gayle Laverne Grinds. Nip/Tuck aren't as clever as you think they are.

So for two years, not only did she not leave the bathroom, but she didn't even MOVE while she was on the seat and it welded to her? That's not possible. She didn't fall asleep? She didn't get a muscle ache and stretch her legs? She never stood up? I just fail to see how a human being can be unrestrained but completely immobile for that long. There's something bogus about the story, there's got to be.

So . . . how long before this gets adapted for CSI, ER, or Law & Order?

stop judging her, people, maybe she just had some taco bell

yay whee

Two years? That's abuse!

Maybe she was grazing the internets?

http://boingboing.metonym.net/index.php?http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/12/why-were-powerless-t.html

::speechless::

Maybe she was too embarrassed to admit she suffered from incontinence. On top of that she also was too practical -in a wrong way.

Two years? That's nothing, the Queen sat on the throne for 50 years.

Seriously, I thought the BB headline was "Woman sat on toilet for two hours." My thought was, "Really? Is that so amazing?"

Once I blinked and re-read it, well, I'm with Reaction Cat up there.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a prybar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said.

"Hey Doc, you ever seen anything like that before?"

"Yes, but not with a frame around it."

Here is a close to local forum cussing & discussing it.

http://www.67601.com/14_5992_0.html

Well. . . last time I drank a case of Schlitz, it sure seemed like I sat there for two years the morning after.

We all probably spend more than two years on the toilet in our lifetimes, but very few of us have the gumption to attempt to get it all out of the way in one sitting.

this reminds me of a morbidly obese woman from a couple of years ago who had sat on her couch for several years not getting up. Her skin had grown into the weave of the fabric.

I don't want to contemplate what the smell must have been like when they finally got her up........

Where can I find a girl like that?

@randwulf. Yep, Didn't know that... I live in Italy :-)

I wonder if he peed between her legs when he had to go.

What would possess someone to do that? Maybe she stopped up the toilet and was too embarassed to tell anyone and couldn't find a plunger.

I just heard that they're going to make a movie about it, told from the cops' angle. The working title is 'Bad Loo Tenant'.

I have a theory.

She must have been a customer service representative paid on a per-call-answered basis.

She had the epiphany that if her office was the john, she could sit there with a cordless phone and work 24/7. She was really ambitious, that's all!

The article doesn't mention anything about her being "obese", yet a couple of us seem to be assuming that this is the case. Inserting that detail seems a little fatphobic to me. (She's a lunatic! She must be a fattie!)

And #9, I'm sure you're not suggesting a skinny woman's "nether regions" would smell any better after being in the same situation?

Now, how does a woman like this have a boyfriend and I don't? Just sayin'...

@BLAZENHOFF

Ha. Well, she has a *boyfriend*, but it's one for whom it took TWO YEARS for it to occur to him to call for help when she was stuck on the toilet. Is she really livin' the dream here? (:

@blazenhoff: I think it's safe to say that you're better off without the kind of boyfriend who would happily let you sit on a toilet for 2 years.

Just think of the 'roids she must have incurred?

Maybe she was reading a really long book.

Yes...the book is entitled The Tao of Poo.

Apparently she hadn't left the bathroom in two years, but likely had been on the toilet seat for about a month.

There is more disturbing information here:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpMo5pdCnadyrY2ypTwfBfsPFxQwD8VCQ57G0
and a Mr. Science-y article here:
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/13/768309.aspx

Aaaaand... here's the update on the situation, as per the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/20/usa1/print