Posted on 07/14/2004 5:54:52 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Outhouse Explosion Burns Smoker The Dominion Post
A man was hospitalized for burns after he lit a cigarette in a portable outhouse and the outhouse exploded.
MECCA said that at about 9:40 a.m. Tuesday, Monongalia Emergency Medical Services responded to a burn call at the Clay-Battelle Community Health Center on the Mason-Dixon Highway in Blacksville.
The spokesperson said a man, whose identity is not being released, was inside a portable outhouse when the explosion occurred.
The methane gases inside the outhouse didn't "take too kindly" to the lit cigarette, the spokesperson said.
A Clay-Battelle Health Center spokeswoman said the man drove himself to the clinic.
Mon EMS workers said the man was not severely hurt but they could not comment specifically on his injuries or release his name due to privacy policies.
Mon EMS transported the man from the health center to Ruby Memorial Hospital.
Too funny.
Well, maybe it was the cig, but I'm not sure about cell phones either. Aside from some interesting background music, there are other considerations to take into account when using the phone in a portable john.
Gives a whole new meaning to... "that BURNING sensation"!!!!
I think the real story was that he was lighting farts after a long night of mexican food and caronas.
i love those guys!
"The methane gases inside the outhouse didn't "take too kindly" to the lit cigarette"
According to Hank Hill methane IS a bastard gas. In this case it appears that it was a MF'er.
Now that is what you call blowing the "sh" out of something!
1. The spokesperson said a man, whose identity is not being released - ....duh....
2. Gives a brand new meaning to the term "sh!t for brains"...doncha think?
Time for Preparation CO2.
Ka-Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PPPHHHHHHHHHHHHHHFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHH
They empty out the port-a-johns on construction sites pretty regularly but I do have experience in this. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT open the door of one of those things after the Mexicans have had their post-lunch grunt. Even the flys won't go in there.
Never smoke in a plastic box full of chemicals and gas. NEVER!
We just used one for 3 weeks while our new mobile home was being set up and trimmed, so this kind of (pardon the pun) hits home. Maybe they should put warning labels on those things. And here I was being petty by complaining that they didn't have a beer holder in them...I coulda blowed up real good!
Hubby said you can always tell if there are illegal aliens on the job by the footprints on the seat of the portable toilet, LOL!
Don't you think it would be safer in the old fashioned kind? The ones made out of wood with the 1/4 moon cut in the door?
Joe had been gone from his home for quite some time. One day his mother saw him walking back up the dirt road toward the house. She went out and said, "Whar you ben Joe?"
Joe answered, "I went off ant joint the Army Ma."
"What did you larn thar?" she asked.
"I learnt how to shot a fancy gun, make my bed, and all sorts of good things."
Ma told Joe, "You better go say Hi to your Pa then."
Joe went to the barn and talked to his Pa.
Pa asked Joe, ""Whar you ben to Joe? We bin a missin you"
Joe answered, "I went off ant joint the Army Pa."
"What did you larn while you were thar?" Pa asked
"I learnt a lot of things, like shootin a fancy gun, blowin up things and throwing hand grenades."
"What's that?" Pa asked.
Joe said, "I brung one home to show you. What you do, is pull this here thing out and then you throw it at what you want to blow up", as he lobbed it toward the outhouse. The grenade rolled up next to the outhouse and blew it to smithereens.
About that time, Grampa comes stumbling out brushing the dust off of himself.
Pa and Joe run up and ask him, "You OK Gramps?"
Grampa said, "Yup, but I ain't never gonna fart and light my pipe in the outhouse again!"
Shi# Happens
Of course. That's what we have at my house.
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