Taking matters to extremes

I'm a pretty lazy chap really, and I've also been known to spend a while in the lavatory - sometimes it's just the best place to catch up on reading - but there really are limits.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Deputies say a woman in western Kansas became stuck on her boyfriend's toilet after sitting on it for two years.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

Now, you might think that, if your girlfriend had been sitting on the loo for two years (two years!) you'd get a bit concerned. And, fair play to him:

The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call.

Now that takes callousness to a whole new level...