Unless she got her hand caught up there somehow, or had allergies, I would imagine her scalp was not much involved. There are products one does not store on the bathroom.
As I said - I’ve had that shit in my hair.
The standard Gorilla Glue did soak through a head scarf and onto my hair. For the hair style she had, flat to the head, and applied in a spray, yeah, I could see it gluing to her scalp, too, at least in some spots.
Even if it’s just a cap of solidified hair - sweat and oil can’t get through it and will build up on her scalp skin, which will be uncomfortable. Ask anyone who has tried to scratch an itch under a cast about stuff like that.
She’s had this stuff on her hair and scalp for a month. On average, hair grows about a half-inch per month, yet it doesn’t look like the half-inch nearest her scalp is glue-free. Could the glue have blocked her hair follicles?
Maybe she thought that Gorilla Glue spray was like Aqua Net on steroids?
I once saw, as reason for admission to the pediatric ward, “Super Glue in eye.” The child was too young to be told to just lie still, so she had to be sedated and taken to the OR, where it was removed, her eye was patched, and presumably her parents put the Super Glue on a higher shelf.
On average your skin regenerates in about a month as well. The thing is, not every hair on your head grows at the same rate, nor does every skin cell. I expect that as things grow out it would release in patches, but those patches will be attached to other bits that continue to be anchored for longer but that’s way more thought than I’ve given to such a problem before, and probably will ever again.
She’s not the first person to inadvertently adhere to something. Pretty sure someone somewhere has written something about this, but I don’t feel up to looking for it at the moment.
It seems like a buzz cut would eliminate a lot of the glue. It’s hopelessly gummed up in the hair.
I get glue off my hands by gently rubbing. It’ll eventually loosen and peel off. The process would be painful on the scalp. She’ll probably need sedation while they massage and rub the scalp to peel off the glue.
Or trim her toenails with a chainsaw.
On the plus side, at least one partner in this should qualify for a Darwin Award by rendering themselves unable to spawn.
My theory is that, unless it’s a household cleaner (DH cited Simple Green as an example), if it’s sold at Home Depot or similar, it’s probably not a good move to put it in my hair.
If she really is stubbornly stupid enough to try to cash in on her own idiocy, I hope the judge orders her to pay the defendant’s legal fees, between guffaws and giggles.
People have left Krazy Glue on toilet seats. It has not gone well for the victims.
I use glues including equivalents to Gorilla Glue all the time. My experience is that it sloughs off your fingers very quickly - even the back of them which doesn’t experience high wear. I’ve always assumed it’s because the glue is only attached to your outer skin cells which are dead and continually being replaced, plus oil is coming up from the pores beneath.
I suppose your scalp is somewhat different but I’m nonetheless puzzled by how long this has lasted.
Crazy glue and Gorilla Glue are two chemically different things, even though I’ve encountered quite a few people who think they’re pretty much the same. They aren’t. There is actually a de-bonding agent available for Crazy Glue. I am not aware of such a thing for Gorilla Glue.
I suspect the length of time this has lasted is partly due to the area covered. At this point it might even be loosened in some spots but those bits are still connected to other areas cemented down.
Given how nasty some of the stuff being used to loosen it is (Goof Off, acetone, etc.) if I were her I’d be trying to get it off in small patches rather than slathering it over my entire head, but then, I’m not her and I’m not an expert in dealing with this sort of thing.
Yeah, it’s a polyurethane glue and every time I’ve used that type of glue the instructions have stated that the only way to remove it is “mechanically”.
Back when I worked as a cobbler if people came in with a bad DIY repair with superglue (Crazy Glue) we could usually just zap it with de-bonder or hit it with a bit of acetone, peel it apart, then fix it properly.
If the DIY repair was Gorilla Glue we’d charge people extra because the only way we could deal with it would be to physically remove/grind away the glue and that shit was not kind to our equipment, nor quick and easy to do.
I was wondering about using acetone and wondered if people thought it would work because it does on superglue, but apparently it can soften Gorilla Glue.
Gorilla Glue is like a tattoo: assume it really is forever.
She’s going to a plastic surgeon in LA. He claims to have a medical grade solvent that will remove the glue. I hope he’s successful.
My only reaction is ~
Stupid ** should ** hurt.
‘Don’t be a fucking idiot’ seems to cover most bases, but it seems like that’s just difficult advice for some.
Yep. Time for my own story about stupidity with polyurethane.
One time I had a problem with my roof - squirrels chewed through the boards just under the corner of the roof, then tore out the insulation and made a home inside. My house is three floors tall; my tallest ladder only just reaches high enough to work on the affected area and that’s still a bit of a stretch (I don’t actually attempt it any more).
I went up the ladder, made sure the squirrels were not home, screwed a metal plate over the damage, then inserted the nozzle of a can of expanding polyurethane foam through a small remaining hole and proceeded to squirt it into the cavity behind. This work was all taking place at a level above my head.
I looked away for a moment or two, then when I looked back, a large ball of wet polyurethane foam had formed and it was slowly tipping over toward me.
I couldn’t jump out of the way as I was three stories up. If I did nothing or tried to descend properly, it would just fall on me uncontrollably, probably on my head, so I used my left hand to sort of sweep it to the side as it fell.
It stuck to my hand and rolled down most of my left arm. By the time I got back down to ground level, it was coating most of my left hand and arm.
I wiped as much as I could off with rags while it was still wet, but as the residue cured, it became a hard, uncomfortable crust, bonding to the hairs on my arm.
It took several days for it all to come off - leaving my arm looking pretty raw and sore - like someone had done a bad wax job of removing the hair.
Edit: don’t be a fucking idiot with polyurethane
Polyurethane glue is great. It is also terrible. And for precisely the same reason
Especially since some find stupidity lucrative, by way of lawsuit/settlement lotto. IMO, this is a big reason GG should NOT hand over any money unless required to do so by a court. If they were to be so concerned about “goodwill” they handed this idiot money, that would encourage emulators looking for a payday of their own.
Maybe Gorilla Glue could feature her in a comical commercial about how effective their product is.