Police are investigating a Monticello, Kentucky Walmart after a woman used the restroom there and found herself Super Glued to the toilet seat. The same thing happened in a Maryland Walmart just prior to April Fool's Day. Regarding the latest case, Monticello Police Department Chief Ralph Miniard told WCPO, "We're looking at it. Right now, I wouldn't be prepared to say which way it was -- accident or intention." (Thanks, Charles Pescovitz!)
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Jun 20, 2012
Woman glued to Walmart toilet
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Accident? How do you accidentally put super glue on a toilet seat?
Don’t you at the very least wipe the toilet seat before you sit on it? You never know what splatters are on there – or in this case, glue
Actually, that was just a result of some expelled residue left over from undigested chemical components of today’s American diet.
And bad aim by the previous occupant of the toilet.
Surely it’s just as likely to be trolls trying to get a compensation payout out of the shopping centre.
Given how fast superglue cures, that’s my guess.
I hate to say it, but I’ve been wondering that myself… and it is Kentucky.
I hope for her sake that she wasn’t on her way to her waxing appointment. Although I suppose that could be a side benefit.
Super glue beads on most surfaces. How could a person not notice a clear, semi-reflective material on the toliet seat and then do what most sensible people do when they see beaded liquid on a toliet seat, wipe it down with toliet paper!
I’m convinced that most people just sit without looking. I don’t understand it, either.
How many people actually get cooties from toilet seats? It’s far more dangerous to grab the handle on the trolley or use the ATM or touch the cart at the grocery store since your hand is probably going to end up near your face. Your thighs, not so much.
It’s not the cooties. It’s the urine on the seats. I see that maybe 10% of the time. Maybe it’s splashed water from the toilet flushing. Maybe not. Nevertheless I am not going to sit in someone else’s urine. So yeah, I always look.
This. For women, the percentage is much higher. Women simply do NOT sit down without looking in a public toilet.
So either we’re talking about women who were mentally incapacitated at the time, or something’s fishy.
I got my thighs near my face one time in band camp.
Well, yeah, as a yoga teacher, getting face to thigh doesn’t seem that outré. Except when it’s the back of your thighs.
In this case it was, indeed, a very unconventional approach to [cough] yoga…
Most superglue (cyanoacrylate) dries in minutes when exposed to the air.. That must have been one packed bathroom in Walmart.. Oh wait.. It is Kentucky..
I feel like that should be a meme for some reason. Not anything against actual Kentucky, really… I’ve just always thought Kentucky was a funny sounding state name.
Bad… BAhahahahaad things… happen down in Kentucky.
Didn’t this happen to Larry the Cable Guy at the Home Depot? He kept yelling: ‘I can’t get off!’