Month: November 2005

Man sues for getting glued to toilet seat

David Pescovitz:
Bob Dougherty of Nederland, Colorado has sued Home Depot because, he claims, just before Halloween of 2003 he used a bathroom in the store and found himself glued to the toilet seat. He says that employees ignored his calls for help. Now the director of operations for the town of Nederland says that in 2004 Dougherty complained to him of getting glued to a toilet in the visitor center but said he managed to escape. Dougherty’s attorney denies that his client ever made such a claim. In any event, Dougherty’s suit against Home Depot seeks $3 million for “pain, humiliation, and financial loss.” From the Associated Press:

Dougherty’s lawsuit, filed October 28, states that officials at the store in Louisville called for an ambulance after he had been stuck for about 15 minutes. Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, which separated from his skin, leaving abrasions, according to the suit.

The lawsuit also stated Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and that he thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck…

“It’s not about the money. I want my health back. I want to be back to normal,” Dougherty said. “I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to anybody ever, ever again.”

Link (Thanks, Mark Pescovitz!)
Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing

Apple’s Mac OS Killer in 1996

Before Apple acquired NeXT for its NeXTStep operating system, it was working on a modern operating system of its own. Named after the popular American composer, Aaron Copland, the OS was a complete rewrite of the existing Mac OS that supported multitasking, protected memory and a brand new look that would eventually be rolled into Mac OS 8 as Platinum. The project stagnated under the leadership of Gil Amelio, and was canceled after it became clear it could not be completed. Read the story at Low End Mac.

Originally from OSNews