I wouldn't have admitted it......

Merika · 11-20-2005, 12:09 PM

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By Sarah Langbein, Rocky Mountain News (Colorado - where else? )

NEDERLAND - The man who said he was glued to a Home Depot toilet seat in 2003 passed a polygraph test administered on Wednesday.
Bob Dougherty, 57, smiled inside his lawyer's office just minutes after learning of the test's results. Wheat Ridge polygrapher Jeff Jenks was paid an undisclosed amount of money by Fox 31 News to perform the test.

Jenks asked Dougherty about 20 questions, Dougherty said. And four of those questions dealt with an allegation by a former town official that Dougherty said he was stuck to a toilet seat in the visitors' center restroom in 2004. Dougherty had denied that allegation.

"In my opinion, he is telling the truth," Jenks told the station.

"I knew it was going to be this," Dougherty said of the polygraph results.

The finding prompted Dougherty to call for an apology from Nederland officials.

"I'm not going to be putting up with crackpots," he told Fox 31. "I don't need any more of this stress."

"I want them to fix my name, now that they've dirtied it."

Dougherty, who said he threw up prior to an interview with the Rocky Mountain News, said he agreed to take the test because "everybody thinks I'm dirty."

"This is going to kill me. My life is shortened as it is."Mark Cohen, Dougherty's lawyer, also set out to find out the source of Tuesday's News story, which quoted former town director of operations Ron Trzepacz as saying he took a complaint from Dougherty in 2004 about a sticky toilet seat.

Cohen issued a public records request to the town, asking for seven sets of documents, including "copies of any phone records or fax records or e-mails evidencing any communication by any town employee to any newspaper or media outlet during the past 14 days."

Dougherty made national news with his $3 million lawsuit against Home Depot.

On Oct. 30, 2003, he said he was glued to a toilet seat in the Louisville store. Dougherty said he needed to use the restroom urgently and reached for a paper seat cover before sitting down. When the dispenser was empty, Dougherty sat down anyway.

That's when his legs and buttocks became affixed to the seat, which was unbolted by paramedics and carried out with Dougherty still attached.

Dougherty and his lawyer, Mark Cohen, said they are suing Home Depot because employees ignored his calls for help and failed to stock toilet seat covers.

News of a possible copycat situation in Bakersfield, Calif., was reported by MSNBC on Wednesday.

The unidentified man was taken to a hospital still attached to the toilet seat, according to news reports.

Meanwhile, Dougherty's appearances on national television shows died down Wednesday. After interviews with the Today show and Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dougherty said he was focusing on saving face in the tiny mountain town.

"I've always gone with honor and integrity," he said.

"Now I'm scared. I don't like this happening. I can't afford this in my life."

Hoping to comfort Dougherty and make light of the situation, friend Larry Borovay in Simi Valley, Calif., created the Web site gotglued.com.

The site, which features a male cartoon character with a toilet seat stuck to his rear, is still under construction and should be completed by Friday, Borovay said.

The Web site will ask visitors to share their humiliating and embarrassing stories.

"I told him that laughter is the best medicine - let people laugh and laugh with them," Borovay said of a conversation with Dougherty.

"I want people to open it up and laugh with Bob."