Gathering of the Figments

The Bee

Ahmahgahd, you guys. This is intense. And disturbing. And hilarious. You don't find news like this everyday, you know!

By ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press Writer

NESS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A man should be charged for allowing his girlfriend to sit on their toilet so long that her body became stuck to the seat, the sheriff said Thursday.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple was among authorities who discovered the woman last month living in the bathroom of a mobile home she shared with her boyfriend, Kory McFarren.

"The house was cluttered but not in shambles," he said. "The smell was overpowering - a terrible smell about the house, obviously coming from where she was at."

McFarren, 36, told police his girlfriend, Pam Babcock, 35, had a phobia about leaving the bathroom and may not have left the bathroom in two years, although he's unsure how long she was in there.

He said during that time, he brought her food, water, and clean clothes.

"The only thing I am guilty of is I didn't get her help sooner," he told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The sheriff said that judging by the woman's condition - she had open sores on which the toilet seat would stick - it appeared she likely sat on the toilet continually for at least a month.

"She would have to be sleeping on the toilet," the sheriff said.
Whipple asked the county attorney to charge McFarren for mistreatment of a dependent adult. The prosecutor did not return phone calls seeking comment.

"The unfortunate thing is this truly is a case of two people, in my opinion, with diminished mental capacity," Whipple said.

McFarren, who works at an antique store, said he has been taking care of Babcock for the 16 years they have lived together. He insisted that he tried to coax her out of the bathroom every day. The home has a second bathroom.

McFarren said he finally called police Feb. 27 after he became worried because Babcock was acting groggy, as if she didn't know what was going on around her.

What emergency responders found when they entered the bathroom has left many in the town of about 1,500 people buzzing and authorities incredulous.

Whipple said the seat was taken off the toilet so the woman could be transported to the hospital for treatment.

Doctors at the Wichita hospital told the boyfriend an infection in her legs has damaged her nerves and may leave her in a wheelchair, he said.

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Figment · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject:

Wow.

How strange...

That poor woman.

Ick.

*shudder*
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Aurora Asha Ila · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:48 am Post subject:

I heard about this the other day when i was talking to a mate. It was also on the Morning show! lmao. Sooooo Bemusement!

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By the way. Not poor woman. She brought it apon herself didnt she? STUPID OVER DRAMATIC TWAT FACE! lmao... i dont know if we can say those words on this forum... im sure ill be the first to find out...

Its like one of those OOPS i licked the pole when it was -20 Degrees thewthius outhie an ou mah tongue ith thuck.

Stupid stupid, what part of the brain convinces people to do stupid things like that?
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Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty, city,
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all.

Extract from Clancy and the Overflow, by A.B. Patterson.
Ironically he never actually went outside of a city his entire life, let alone Droving. phht. Henry Lawson was much more acurate, he didnt romanticise the Aussie bush.

The Bee · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject:

Well, it did say phobia, and phobias can probably make people do strange things... though where she got the idea to sit on the toilet without clothes or getting off for about a month, I have no idea. That's just insane.

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But how would I know?
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Hawkins · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject:

I have a phobia of giant squids. But I don't do retarded irrational things; like freak out whenever I walk by the ocean or something. :/ And besides; what the hell was she afraid of? Having the urge to poop when she wasn't near a toilet? If you have to go /that/ bad, just poop on a tree, bears do it all the time. Just try to find maple leaves to wipe with, those are the softest.
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The Bee · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

Ever heard of agoraphobia? I think she just had a really, really EXTREME case of it, and then went nutzo.
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Figment · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject:

Hawky, I don't think that could be considered a phobia... If you had a phobia of them, you probably never would go near or on the water... I think a lot of people would be afraid of giant squids...

Maybe it was that she had agoraphobia, as Michelle said... And maybe the are in the rest of the caravan was too bright and scary, so then she moved into the bathroom, where she could close everything off... And you know how small those caravan bathrooms are... Maybe that was the only place she could sit... And then she got sick of standing up and sitting down, and then standing up and sitting down about to take her pants down and pull them back up...

I dunno.

Still disgusting... But maybe it made sense to her...

When I was a kid, I would freak out if I didn't walk out the same way I had gone in... I thought it was like I was attached to this string, and that if I walked in one door, and out the other, I would get trapped...

I know that was different to her situation... But maybe she felt that if her rear wasn't touching the toilet seat, something would come and get her?
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