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How the Heck Did a Woman Become Fused to a Toilet Seat?

(Hard bones + soft tissue) x one month of immobility = extremely bad news

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Domestic disputes don’t generally make world headlines, but when they result in a woman’s buttocks attaching to a toiletseat, they tend to draw a bit more attention. After fighting with her boyfriend, 35-year old Pam Babcock locked herself in the bathroom of the couple’s mobile home and refused to leave… for the next two years. When her boyfriend, Kory McFarren, finally called the authorities to report that “there was something wrong with his girlfriend,” they found that she was physically stuck to the toilet seat—her skin had not only attached but, according to the initial reports, appeared to have “grown around” the seat. The cops eventually pried the seat off the toilet with a crowbar and sent the woman—seat attached—to a hospital in Wichita,where they were finally separated.

So how did this happen?

The woman probably became fused to the seat because of skin-penetrating wounds that developed on her behind. ...

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