Posted on 04/19/2015 5:26:59 PM PDT by Gamecock
HEFEI—Here’s why it’s not wise to squat on a sitting toilet.
A man who went to the restroom while waiting for a flight at Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in Anhui, China, was injured when he attempted to squat on the toilet bowl.
Anhui News reported that his companion received a call for help and found the man lying on the floor, his buttocks bleeding and the toilet bowl crushed to pieces.
He was sent to hospital for treatment but reportedly managed to make it back to the airport to catch his flight.
According to a member of the airport’s staff, the man’s weight was too heavy for the toilet to bear and it broke.
Did the Ty-D-Bol man survive?
Squatter’s Rights?
Excrement occurs
I dislike those commodes that are bolted to the wall. Yes, I weigh 250 lbs & wonder how much are they load tested for.
In Uzbekistan where I was deployed there were usually footprints on either side of the port-a-john seat.
You don’t want to make contact of any variety with a Chinese toilet.
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Working on large construction sites with sometimes iffy toilet trailers, I developed the habit of taking a quick glance under the stall door before entering (in the event the latch was defective and somebody was already un there).
That method worked fine until I went to a site with a bunch of Iranian and Pakistani engineers. Footprints indeed.
Looks more like the damn thing wasn’t bolted to a floor flange, and considering it’s China................
So some guy got butthurt because he didn’t know how to use a crapper.
Dude those are set up with a heavy cast iron flange bolted into the concrete and 5/8 threaded rod and nuts holding the commode! it's not gonna come of the wall with you or a 350 pounder sitting on it, relax.
I worked at a Japanese company here in the US for about 10 years as the network engineer. We had this same problem. We were always getting new shipments of Japanese interns every month or so. They were always breaking the seats and tracking mud all over them. They finally started including western toilet etiquette to their orientation and even then the problem never went away. Many thought it was completely unsanitary to sit on the toilet and refused to do it.
I saw a picture of a girl who stood on one of those to paint, or hang something. It was from some other country. The porcelain cut a baseball gloved slice off of her buttocks and legs to the bone. It would have taken a tiger 3 minutes with a katana to do what the toilet did to her in. .3 of a second. I am surprised the guy got back on the flight.
I recall at my former job in a 10 floor highrise. I had to go to the restroom. So I swing open one of the stall doors only to find UGH...excrement not inside the bowl but on the porcelain seat. It was so disgusting. I’m like “who is stupid to not know you are suppose defecate inside the bowl”. I’m not sure, either the female just squatted on top or defecated standing up.
I hope our Toilets are not made from China =)
You have not lived until you have had to use an outhouse out in a shepherd’s field in the West Bank.
It is seared...seared into my memory.
Not in this case.
In China, it might b a good idea to consider standing on the seat rather than sitting. After all, you don’t really know who has had their shoes on the seat earlier.
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