Submitted for your appproval:
A Wichita, Kansas woman has been sitting on her boyfriend’s toilet for the past two years. No, it’s not the world’s worst case of diarrhea, but, to my mind, a case of something mental gone awry. Supposedly the boyfriend, whose name has not been released (but the house the couple lived in is listed in public records as belonging to Kory McFarren. According to police who were finally called in to help the poor woman, they found her skin had grown around the seat and her legs appeared to have atrophied.
According to the AP report:
“She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body,” Whipple said. “It is hard to imagine. … I still have a hard time imagining it myself.”
Even though this case is bizarre, I feel for this young woman.
And now it seems authorities may be looking into pressing charges against the boyfriend for not getting her out of there sooner. According to reports, he brought her food everyday and asked her when she was going to come out of the bathroom. Her answer was always “maybe, tomorrow.”
I don’t know why, but her response reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner and the older couple who decided their fates on the whim of a fortune telling machine–maybe it’s because her rationale for her behavior seems just as incomprehensible to me.
What do you think of this case? Is the boyfriend partly responsible? Why didn’t anyone else notice they hadn’t seen her in TWO YEARS?
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