Quote:"It's not about the money. I want my health back. I want to be back to normal,"
Dougherty's suit against Home Depot, filed late last month in Boulder County District Court, seeks $3 million. It claims he suffered pain, humiliation and financial loss. Dougherty said
he suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome, nightmares and diabetes after the incident.Bob Dougherty sued the home-improvement chain last month, alleging employees at a Louisville, Colo., store ignored his pleas for help after he got stuck on a restroom toilet seat in October 2003.
The Rocky Mountain News reported Dougherty made similar allegations in his hometown of Nederland. Colorado Bureau of Investigation records show Dougherty pleaded guilty to filing a false police report in 1976, something Dougherty said he did not remember, KUSA-TV in Denver reported. Dougherty's lawyer, Mark Cohen, said his client was willing to take a polygraph test.