Just my theory.
Posted on 06/04/2005 9:43:17 PM PDT by QwertyKPH
“When I struck the lighter, the whole thing just detonated. The whole top blew off. I can't tell you if it blew me out the door or if I jumped out.”
John Jenkins
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A man who says he was severely burned when a portable toilet exploded after he sat down and lit a cigarette is suing a general contractor and a coal company.
John Jenkins, 53, and his wife, Ramona Jenkins, 35, of Brave, Pa., filed the lawsuit this week in county circuit court, accusing Chisler Inc. and Eastern Associated Coal Corp. of negligence.
The lawsuit seeks $10 million in damages.
The lawsuit says Jenkins' face, neck, arms, torso and legs were severely burned last July after the cigarette ignited methane gas leaking from a pipe underneath the toilet unit.
“When I struck the lighter, the whole thing just detonated. The whole top blew off,” said Jenkins, a methane power plant operator with North West Fuels Development Inc. “I can't tell you if it blew me out the door or if I jumped out.”
Eastern Associated owns the Blacksville property where the explosion occurred. Jenkins alleges that heavy equipment from Chisler ran over the pipelines before the explosion, causing the methane gas leak.
A call to the Charleston office of Peabody Energy, the parent company of Eastern Associated Coal, was not returned.
A man who answered the phone at Chisler's office in Fairview said the company would have no comment.
I can't spell!!!!!!!!
That's what he gets for lighting up, after having a bowl of chili.
I hate it when that happens!
I hate when that happens...
Just my theory.
Sounds like a crappy case to me.
Sounds like a real "bummer" no pun intended
*snicker*
Ya think he had been stuffing a koran down the toilet, when the book blew up?
He will settle out of court for medical bills, and 50,000.
If that cat had 9 lives, he just spent 'em all.
The Koran is a weapon of mass destruction.
The Koran is a weapon of mass destruction.
lol...So, will he quit smokin' or just stay out of deep vaulted johns?
In this case, drop the "m" and you'll have it right.
"Mr. Kramer, we are prepared to offer you free visits to any portable toilet anywhere in the world, AND....."
Kramer: "I'LL TAKE IT!"
Jackie Chiles: "Who told you to take it? Did I tell you to take it??"
"Jenkins, a methane power plant operator with North West Fuels Development Inc."
You just can`t make something like that up.....
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