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A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.
The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.
The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while firemen cut through the train’s pipework.
The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm.
See! All those tales of mobiles falling into toilets are true.
The same holds for the idiots who go fishing after them!
The sad thing was that he could have easily gotten his hand out if only he would have just let go of the phone. It’s like the monkey getting trying to get the apple out of the vase.
Good reason to have a cell phone flotation device…
Hey, c’mon, MY cellphone fell into the toilet last Friday! It lit up immediately, so it wasn’t hard to find 🙂 Fortunately, also, the toilet was… let’s say, clean. So I opened it, dried it, and left it for a couple days. Works fine now. Things like this make me love Nokia.
And maybe the guy on the TGV had an iPhone – would you let go off one???
Never carry a phone that isn’t easy to replace or say goodbye to.I carry 2 Tracfone burners so I always have a back-up.BTW they now have a double minutes for life deal and a refurb phone for 19.95.Hey John how come these guys aren’t advertising on this blog?
Nothing new. Same thing happened to a woman on an Amtrak Northeast Corridor train a few years ago.
Making a cell phone call from a toilet on a train makes for a good pun:
Mobile Throne
:).
SMALLER ISNT BETTER..
Frenchman, cell phone. No, he was probably after a snack.
Even better question…why is this news??
It was nokia? Is there a point, what phone cannot be thrown in a toilet bowl in the manual? There is a good work for lawyers!
🙂
What would you do for [an iPhone]?
— Would you search for it in the dark?
—– Yes
— Would you shoot a man?
—– Yes.. *BANG*
— Would you fish it out of a high-speed train toilet?
—– …
Why is rail transportation being demonized here? “Train of Terror”? I’m pretty sure these toilets are also used by the major air carriers. Any toilet that’s moving and pitching about, as much as it does in planes or high speed trains, can’t rely on simple gravity to suck down the crap. The man probably thought it was like his toilet at home, grabbed the phone, and then flushed to clean it off before retrieving it. But the extra suction pulled his hand in. You can make things nearly foolproof. But it’s impossible to make things damn fool proof.
He went for that phone undeterred or was that under turd?