A Georgia woman is still searching for answers to how she found herself unable to get up from a toilet seat at Banks County Home Depot, two weeks ago in what appeared to be a prank the Huffington Post reported Tuesday.
The incident occurred when Illyanna De La Keur went to the home supply store with her sister, and brother-in-law the last day before the Thanksgiving holiday, and sat on a toilet seat in the store's restroom without seeing the glue on the seat.
"I'm a grown woman who can't even sit up," De La Keur told WBSB-TV. "I was stuck probably over an hour. There were people in there. There were men in there. Everybody was sticking their head in. And here I am with somebody rubbing WD-40 on me and pulling me loose from the seat. I couldn't understand why they weren't just taking me to an emergency room and having a doctor remove it.
De La Keur's sister Aleera Canino, and emergency medical staff helped to separate her.
"She wasn't in her right state of mind to OK an experiment on her. It worked, but I don't think she should have been there," De La Keur' told WSB-TV.
A man in Boulder, Colo. also found himself in the same predicament in 2005, and sued the retailer.
According to the Associated Press, Bob Doughtery said employees did not answer his calls for assistance.
"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told the AP. "They just let me rot. There is no evidence to show that someone did it besides who was in there. This is not Home Depot's fault. But I am blaming them for letting me hang in there and just ignoring me."
The lawsuit stated Dougherty was coming off of heart bypass surgery, and believed he was having a heart attack at the time he became immobile. Store employees then dialed for an ambulance 15 minutes into Dougherty's dilemma.
Medical staff took off the toilet seat from the bowl when he elapsed.
