Posted on 10/28/2008 10:08:56 AM PDT by Renfield
A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.
The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.
The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while firemen cut through the train's pipework.
The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
That must suck.
It’s hard to stop a train.
Pouvez-vous m’entendre maintenant ?
Don’t say oui oui while going wee wee on a train?
Homer Simpson: "Yes" D'oh!
CRAPPY DAY...PING!!!
This sounds like something that would happen to me.
LOL - I needed the comedy break - thanks for posting!!
I hate it when that happens!
That’s weird, most trains in Europe empty directly on the tracks, you can see them if you look down. Maybe due to the TGV’s speed they can’t do that.
"CBP officers make a spicy discovery
"Maybe a Mission woman wanted customs agents to believe she had a very big baby. A 21-year-old woman tried to smuggle nearly five and a half pounds of chorizo concealed in several baby diapers insider her SUV at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge just before midnight Friday, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"An officer at the checkpoint saw a pile of diapers inside the woman's 2005 Ford Expedition and ordered her into secondary inspection for a closer look. The woman told them her baby had soiled the diapers, officers said. But after the inspectors tore into the folded diapers to check out what was inside, the brown Mexican pork sausage was out of the bag.
" 'You would be surprised what people carry in their vehicles,' said Felix Garza, a local U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman. Border crossers frequently try to illegally bring across fresh foods such as pork, chicken, eggs and avocados that can create problems for U.S. agricultural production, Garza said. The woman was fined $300 and released. The officers seized the chorizo."
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/woman_19128___article.html/diapers_customs.html
As for the cell phone, don’t worry. I hear this guy is flush with cash ;)
Chorizo, diaper soil - same thing...
ping
“Pouvez-vous m’entendre maintenant ?”
That was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the headline. LOL!
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