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Is Sitting on the Toilet for Two Years a Crime?

By Rachel Plotnick

What you are about to read is indeed bizarre, but whether or not a crime has actually been committed has yet to be determined. According to the Associated Press, at the urging of the local sheriff the district attorney?s office in Ness City, Kansas, located some 182 miles northwest of Wichita, is considering filing charges against the boyfriend of a woman who purportedly remained inside the bathroom at her boyfriend?s home for approximately two years without coming outside. By the time emergency medical personnel arrived at 36-year-old Kory McFarren?s home, McFarren?s girlfriend, 35-year-old Pam Babcock, had sat on the toilet seat for so long that her skin had actually begun to grow around the seat, according to what Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple told to the Associated Press...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).