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.
Actually there are thousands, but they are known as Johns or Johnnie on the job
My dad was a union irorworker. He told me how someone would put an M-80 down the stack of those things from time to time while someone was pinching a loaf. Just to break the monotony of the job I guess. One time they hooked a crane to one and gave a guy the ride of his life.
Outhouses in the Adirondacks in the winter are no fun.
Probably kept the smell and flies down, though.
He is now scarred for life because, as he told me, he won't go into port-a-johns because whenever he walks into one, he immediately starts getting an erection! heh, heh, heh...
True story.
I've never seen the south-of-the-border variety do that but one place I worked was next door to a Catholic Charities chapter and they had literally thousands of new Vietnamese immigrants in there each month and they DID actually get up on the seat with their feet and squat. What was really disgusting was to go in the mens room and have up to five of them crowded around each urinal all jabbering away as they did their thing.
Ah the wonders of multiculturalism!
Read later.
Multitasking gone wrong, ping!
Oh $h!t! Somebody's gonna get sewered..
Oh, thanks. We didn't need that visual.
In Australia, that's known as "Kangarooing the Loo" !
This sounds like a recurring urban myth to me. The porta potties are vented thru their roofs. This oldie was explored on myth busters in regards to regular toilets and proved impossible.
Just tossing a lit butt in the gas would not ignite it. They had to use a lit match to make it go off. Either a weak brained investigator using an urban myth to spice up a slow news day or an anti smoking nazi on a jag.
Outhouses are called dunnies in Australia.
My money is on the latter!!!!
As a child, my brother in law had to go into hiding for a week over a prank. He crept up on the outhouse while his grandfather was using it, and dropped a quarter stick down the vent hole.
Your fault?
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