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October 17, 2014 8:19 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

[su_right_ad]Andrew Walls didn’t think it was funny when the anesthesia wore off and he was wearing pink panties.

The prank took place at the Delaware Surgery Center, where Walls was an employee at the time. He suspects his coworkers are responsible for the prank.

Walls’ civil lawsuit stated, “When the plaintiff recovered from the effects of the anesthesia administered by defendants, he awoke to realize that while he was unconscious pink women’s underwear had been placed on his body. When the plaintiff initially presented for his colonoscopy he had not been wearing pink women’s underwear and at no time did the plaintiff voluntarily, knowingly or intentionally place the pink women’s underwear upon himself.”

Walls claims his coworkers “failed to maintain proper policies and procedures for the care of patients with respect to not engaging in extreme and outrageous conduct.”

The incident happened in 2012. Walls lost his job in the months following the prank, an event he says the joke is responsible for due to the “severe emotional stress” it caused him.[su_csky_ad]

D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

67 responses to Wakes Up From Colonoscopy Wearing Pink Panties, Sues

  1. whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    it’s bad enough that they had to “go there” but to then put pink panties on him, oh man that’s…

    • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 8:40 pm

      Funny. When I had a lumpectomy I wrote a note to my surgeon and attached it to my breast. A week after surgery when I was told to take off the first wrap I found a return note, just as cheeky as mine.

      • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 8:48 pm

        see, i wanted to wait until the jokes came in. if it had been me, and these were friends/co-workers, i would have laughed it off. some people don’t have a sense of humor.

        • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 8:49 pm

          I believe I am going to pull that prank on my husband when he goes in for his.

          • mea_mark October 17th, 2014 at 8:56 pm

            I hope he doesn’t read your comments online.

          • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 8:57 pm

            Naw, he sticks to his two blogs

          • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 8:57 pm

            i just laughed my ass off on that one. take a pic. but, of course no posting.

          • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 9:01 pm

            we tend to pull pranks on each other. He had the surgeon create a very large chest with my second BC issue. I thought they had reconstructed a rather large chest for me

  2. StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    This is breast cancer awareness month…
    Perhaps it was just a reminder.

  3. tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 8:39 pm

    honey, you have larger problems then pink panties if they gave you severe anxiety and stress. Take a mental health year with lot’s of therapy

    • StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 8:40 pm

      High Five~!

      • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 8:40 pm

        Some people just need to lighten up

        • StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 8:41 pm

          Indeed~!

  4. StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    Sometimes wearing women’s panties can feel…liberating..;)
    Whats the big deal?

    • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 8:44 pm

      thong or full

      • StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 8:47 pm

        Full of course..
        I dont like the way the,…
        never mind..:)

        • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 8:49 pm

          no banana hammock for you.

  5. StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    He should be thankful this didn’t happen in Texas..
    He could have awoken in a pair of Thomas Eric Duncan’s soiled underwear.

  6. Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 8:46 pm

    In a weird way … I think that what they did could cause a person to wonder if they did that while I was out … what else? He went in for a procedure which means he should have been treated with the respect any patient is given. I’m gonna have to side with the guy. What they did to him was inappropriate and wrong. It’s not like he went to a party with them and he got wasted and was pranked. He went in for a procedure that is, from what I’ve been told and am not looking forward to when it’s my time, uncomfortable and icky to begin with.

    • StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      I totally understand.

      • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 8:53 pm

        I just think if he had been pranked at a party or something and woke up with panties … fine. It’s better than some of the sh*t I’ve seen at parties in my younger, wilder days but having a colonoscopy? Yeah … that can’t be good.

        • StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 8:57 pm

          No one looks forward to a colonoscopy..

          My first prostrate exam was a shocker also..
          If I had known it was the same thing my girlfriend had been doing, I could have saved myself a lot of money.

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 8:59 pm

            BAAHAAHAAHAAA!!!!! Well, at least they don’t press them between two plates and squish them flat while you hug the thing squishing them.

          • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 9:04 pm

            that’s not fun at all. i was in shock.

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 9:13 pm

            Try having a lady grab your nip and yank it because she needs more tissue and then say “Don’t speak!” It was awful! I told my Doc that my first date as a teen was tamer than what she did! Thankfully, I hadn’t been the only one that had that issue and they replaced her. It just makes it go a lot better when someone is being really kind.

          • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 9:42 pm

            well that’s good. but i haven’t been back since 1999.

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 9:53 pm

            Wow! I wouldn’t wait any longer. It isn’t as bad as the first but it’s important. Cancer is so insidious. I have saved the messages on my phone from my mom and I look at the time stamp and how her voice changed in less than a year. The Chemo, the sickness … she got to the point where she welcomed the end. That really sucked. I’m only in my forties and was looking forward to being able to spend more time with her. My Dad had Meso and it slowly killed him. She had to work a lot to pay for his meds. Me and my boys miss her. Just think about it, please?

          • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 10:25 pm

            i will think about it. my promise to you. and sorry for your loss.

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 11:08 pm

            Thanks! You made me a happy lady! OH, and thanks. I miss her but she got me to think about myself. I was a smoker too. I quit and it’s been 5 years now.

          • whatthe46 October 18th, 2014 at 1:48 am

            i will get there as soon as i can.

          • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 10:46 pm

            go, do not think about it. call tomorrow and make an appointment

          • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 10:41 pm

            ask for the new 3D mammogram and an MRI, less squishing and better pics and the mRI will show everything

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 11:09 pm

            They have those? I wonder if I’m covered for those?

          • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 11:16 pm

            The 3d is becoming standard the MRI is not unless there is history or you had BC already

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 11:28 pm

            We have the boob squisher still. But I’m good till next year and hopefully, our hospital will have one!

          • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 9:01 pm

            you’re stupid funny. saved a lot of money… HA!

          • StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 9:04 pm

            Just tying to bring a bit of levity to a serious subject..(cancer)

            Watched my dad, grandmother and great aunt all suffer the curse.

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 9:11 pm

            Dad, Mom, Grams, Great Aunt. It is indeed a scary thing. That’s why I can’t tell how this guy was feeling going to have a colonoscopy. That’s serious stuff and maybe his family has a history and they just thought it would be funny once it was all done to “put girls pink undies” on him. I went a really long time before I had my first Mammogram. I was afraid to hear, “We’ve found something.” It was anxiety 10.0 for me waiting to get the results.

          • StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 9:30 pm

            I understand…
            I get physicals once a year through work and I ain’t gettin any younger..
            So far so good.

          • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 10:40 pm

            been there done that

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 11:06 pm

            Hope everything went well! My best friend is a survivor for almost 6 years now. It was a rough time. I’ve been lucky so far.

          • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 11:16 pm

            2 years and 6 years

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 11:26 pm

            Twice? Wow! Props lady! That takes a strong spirit! Glad your ok! I really enjoy talking with you!

          • tracey marie October 18th, 2014 at 7:10 pm

            3 times, as well as vaginal,ovaraian,uterus and a melenaoma.LOL I am a walking cancer stick.

          • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 9:40 pm

            sorry for your loses.

          • StoneyCurtisll October 17th, 2014 at 9:43 pm

            No worries..:)

    • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 8:55 pm

      i was to get one, but i needed to make an appt. that DID NOT happen. i had to have surgery and they didn’t do it when they had the chance, should have when i was already out like a light.

      • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 8:57 pm

        Ouch! Hope everything turned out ok! Not looking forward to that little milestone but I’d rather have it than colon cancer. Of course, I am a female so the underwear thing would be weird if it was someone else’s. That would be icky.

        • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 8:59 pm

          no no no no. i had to have another kind of surgery. no where near there. lol. and i’m a female as well.

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 9:06 pm

            Oh! Okay! LOL!!! I was in full facial cringe mode. Thinking “what does he mean they operated when he wasn’t out? They do that? Sadists!”
            I was going to make a joke about the undies until I thought, he’s getting a medical procedure that I don’t know how he was feeling about before hand. A joke isn’t funny if it hurts someone that you’re suppose to be friends with. At least, that’s what I tell my kids because I have to explain to them when their friends are hurt over a joke that my kid thought was funny. Like the boy with Autism, that the kids on the soccer team taped to the goal post as a joke. Someone wrote to me, which got deleted by the time I got to it, “What’s the big deal? He wasn’t hurt or anything.” But he was. He was frightened. I have a son on the spectrum. So, if I can’t show understanding here … that makes me feel like I’m not standing by my own words.

          • whatthe46 October 17th, 2014 at 9:39 pm

            “I was in full facial cringe mode.” so was i when you thought what you thought.

          • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 9:48 pm

            LMAO!!!

    • searambler October 17th, 2014 at 9:23 pm

      Well, yeah, but these were co-workers (presumably in a friendly way, at least before) and not just random strangers. Maybe they stepped over the line a tad, but I’m not buying his ‘mental anguish led to his firing’ line. An apology was in order, but a lawsuit? I think that’s unwarranted here, and I think someone convinced him that he has a case. I’m guessing he hopes the hospital’s lawyers offer him a settlement. IMO, of course.

      • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 9:47 pm

        Well, in a civil suit you have to meet the requirements of Duty, Breach of duty, Causation and then damages. So, the language is more a standard legal term. You have to have the damages element or you have to cause of action. Hard tellin’ how it played out afterwards. He could have been pissed, embarrassed … but if he believes he was fired because of his behavior afterwards, he’s got a solid case. They did have a duty, friends or not, the breached that duty, causation of the injury would be their direct action of placing women’s underwear on him while unconscious, and then he has to prove the injury. I’m sure he is hoping for a settlement. Most lawsuits do. But I can’t say an apology was warranted because I don’t know what led to him being fired and what type of employee was he before hand. I don’t have those facts, so it’s hard for me to make that call.

    • tracey marie October 17th, 2014 at 10:37 pm

      They lightened the situation up. IMO it is hilarious

      • Mainah October 17th, 2014 at 11:32 pm

        If it had made him laugh, sure but it didn’t. I’m kind of conflicted about it. I was chuckling, don’t get me wrong. Just the more I thought about it … the more I had to say “wait a minute”. I read the story about the boys that taped an Autistic boy to a goal post as part of a hazing thing. They called it a harmless prank but when they left the boy taped up there for like 15 minutes, he was screaming bloody murder. My youngest has PDD-NOS and what seems harmless to other’s isn’t so harmless to him. It’s only funny if the person you’re pranking isn’t hurt by it.

  7. Obewon October 17th, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    Where was Sheriff pink panties Arpaio during this escapade? No Sheriff Joe alibi either. I rest my case.

    • Chinese Democracy October 17th, 2014 at 9:14 pm

      lol I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if any of those inmates seriously sued for emotional distress?

  8. Boehner-Monkey October 17th, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    It’s sort of like Lindsey Graham waking up after a Maker’s Mark Party at the McCain’s!

  9. fahvel October 18th, 2014 at 3:34 am

    59 comments about pink undies and nothing so far about bombing the lives of syrians. giddy bunch of adolescents out there?

    • rg9rts October 18th, 2014 at 5:07 am

      You read the wrong article

  10. rg9rts October 18th, 2014 at 5:08 am

    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

  11. William October 18th, 2014 at 9:41 am

    Not so bad. My dear old Navy buddies and their “initiations”. Waiting patiently for you to wake up from a serious night of alcohol induced debauchery. Attaching a toe tag and wheeling you into a walk in cooler.

    • whatthe46 October 18th, 2014 at 1:52 pm

      i would have freaked out to no end.

  12. OldLefty October 18th, 2014 at 10:44 am

    Easy as it is to mock this, it is an egregious violation of trust that a patient puts in healthcare providers while they place themselves in this very vulnerable position at the hands of virtual strangers.

    • whatthe46 October 18th, 2014 at 1:51 pm

      i would agree, but at the same time these were co-workers and friends. i don’t think that they believed he’d be so upset about it.