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Texas toilet starts gushing oil... Woman returns to crude-covered home
The Associated Press ^
| Feb. 05, 2004
Posted on 02/06/2004 11:33:41 AM PST by new cruelty
LONGVIEW, Texas - A Texas woman has struck oil — or maybe it struck her.
Leila LeTourneau returned from work late Monday to find crude oil covering her home’s floors and spilling from the toilets, bathtub and sinks.
Experts have told her the oil kind of “burped up.”
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bubbleup; crudecommode; oiltoilet; slick; superbowl; texastea
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The toilet in question.
To: All
Experts have told her the oil kind of “burped up.” Happens to me all the time.
To: new cruelty
How hilarious.
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:35:42 AM PST
by
King Black Robe
(With freedom of religion and speech now abridged, it is time to go after the press.)
To: new cruelty
My son had a Manhattan apartment that looked like that, but it wasn't oil.
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:35:42 AM PST
by
js1138
To: new cruelty
well....i'll be the first to say it......"Oil that is, black gold, texas tea"
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:36:02 AM PST
by
volchef
(Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef. - Andy Rooney)
To: js1138
ack. The entire apartment?
To: new cruelty
You know there were a few X-files episodes about stuff like this.
I'd move if I were her.
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:36:23 AM PST
by
Bikers4Bush
(Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Write in Tancredo in 04'!)
To: new cruelty
There's a "Jed Clampett" joke in here somehwre....
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:37:03 AM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: new cruelty
I bet that they tell her that he has the mineral rights to what goes in, but not for what comes out.
-PJ
To: new cruelty
“I always tease people about ’doesn’t everybody in Texas have an oil derrick in the back yard?’ Then when I came home I discovered I struck oil inside the house,” LeTourneau said.
She and her son are now staying at a hotel.
They bought a hotel already? :))
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:37:19 AM PST
by
Tolik
To: new cruelty
A good part of it. Pretty much totaled it and a lot of belongings. Plumbing in NY seems to reverse course at odd intervals.
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:38:24 AM PST
by
js1138
To: new cruelty
Next thing ya know ol' Leila's a millionaire....
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:40:25 AM PST
by
Plutarch
To: new cruelty
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:41:20 AM PST
by
VxH
To: new cruelty
Time for her to load up the truck and move to Beverleeeee!!
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:43:05 AM PST
by
FReepaholic
(Never Forget: www.september-11-videos.com)
To: js1138
Plumbing in NY seems to reverse course at odd intervals.
It's considerably more "regular" on the higher floors ...
To: volchef
Oil that is, black gold, texas tea" make that Texas pee
To: tiamat
See #5 and #13.
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:43:20 AM PST
by
ntnychik
To: mhking; dighton; aculeus; hellinahandcart; BlueLancer; general_re; Tijeras_Slim; L,TOWM
Oily house photo update. (Don't loose your lunch).
To: new cruelty
Lends a whole new meaning to the expression, "Don't smoke in the bathroom."
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:43:56 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(John Kerry is nothing more than Ted Kennedy without a dead girl in the car.)
To: new cruelty
We sure thats oil? Maybe the owner had some texas chilli?
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:44:20 AM PST
by
smith288
(If terrorist hate George W. Bush, then he has my vote!)
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