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How much is your cell phone worth to you? If you lose it, do you just curse a few times and decide to pay for a replacement? Or, do you risk life and limb trying to get it back? A 26-year-old man went for option B, and ended up getting his arm caught in a toilet for two hours.
The man, a passenger on a French high speed TGV train, apparently dropped his phone into the toilet. When he tried to get it back, the bowl's suction system latched onto his arm and left him unable to free it. Emergency services cut the toilet free of the train, delaying the other passengers for two hours, and removed the man on a stretcher with the toilet still stuck to his arm. They certainly didn't spare him any dignity, as one witnessed said, "He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off." Ouch.
Unfortunately, this isn't the first case we've heard of toilets and cell phones. A Lebanese student got stuck in his bathroom in 2005, and a passenger on a Grand Central Station train suffered the same fate in 2003. At least the killer cell phones aren't back yet (cue spooky Halloween music). [Source: BBC via Textually.org]
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Subscribe to commentsPJOct 28th 2008 4:25PM
Ban Cell phones or require a license to use them. They create more problems and trouble than they are actually worth. So shut up and drive.
Hugh RanazzoOct 30th 2008 3:55PM
He wasnt driving you MORON,but I do agree that ppl should not drive and hold a phone to their ear{Unless they are brain surgeons and on the phone with the hospital about a patient they will operate on as soon as they arrive},a hands free device is fine,because everyone is capable of talking to passengers while driving.
tom sheridanOct 29th 2008 11:15PM
to PJ:
okay, we will listen to you and ban cell phones and pass a law requiring a license to use them. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DonOct 30th 2008 7:30AM
Ban or require a license??? No wonder Obama is getting alot of votes...there are people o0ut there actually willing to give up freedoms and Liberties freely!!!
LisaOct 30th 2008 10:55AM
He didn't have to be talking on his phone when it fell in. I dropped mine in once when it fell out of my pocket. It's not worth the effort to retrieve it since they don't work after being submerged!
CaptDonOct 30th 2008 10:12AM
The article wasn"t clear....
Did they saw the arm oor the toilet bowl "clean off"??????
neeseeOct 30th 2008 8:32AM
Serves him right for talking on the darn thing in the bathroom. I don't
know about the rest of you, but I really hate it when I know I am
talking to someone sitting on a toilet! Have a little bit of decency folks!
I wonder what it sounded like to the person he called. Maybe he
took texting a little too far! GRGL-GRGL
Carl UlmerOct 30th 2008 9:18AM
Funny story-- but, did somebody retrieve the cell phone for the poor chap????
BetsyOct 30th 2008 10:06AM
Seems I'm being dense here, but did they saw off the toilet or the hand?
ReggieOct 30th 2008 9:56AM
What did they eventually saw clean off...the toilet or the hand?
tigerlilyOct 30th 2008 10:22AM
You're kidding me right? Seriously, Obama is going to tax the hell out of you and you still want him in office....Ok, what the heck? Seriously, we need grown up voters to choose our President not these willy nilly losers on your poll.
Happy Halloween from the witch of the East. And good luck to Casey Anthony...the evil witch from Florida. Oh well, wear masks, go hunting, and have a good time.
carleton kentOct 30th 2008 10:46AM
What had to be sawn off? The guy's hand (highly unlikely) or the toilet? The quote doesn't make it clear. It is clear, though, that your writer thought it was the hand--or chose to think so without verifying.
BetsyOct 30th 2008 10:32AM
Tigerlily,
Can't you see there are more important things to discuss? We want to know what happened to that poor man's hand!
JamieOct 30th 2008 11:17AM
they are talking about the toilet LOL
M. IrvingOct 30th 2008 12:19PM
With the war on terrorism, Americans have been freely giving up their liberties for years. Don's "highly ranked" comment just shows how people care about themselves more than others. I think it is time a social consciousness was developed. Because of this "poor fellow's" thoughtless stupidity, rescue crews had to work for 2 hours to save him. Send this thoughtless "victim" the bill. If you're going to act thoughtlessly, you should pay for it. As conservatives would surely agree, freedom should and does come at a price. Except when the individual has to pay for it? Lol.
Regarding the fate of the victim's arm, I think the article is clear. It seems there are many who need to work on their reading comprehension. Or was it ambiguous and now an editor has clarified the article since those comments were posted? :-)
treeOct 30th 2008 11:45AM
OK people READ the article, they cut out the toilet with his hand still stuck in it! That means he still has his hand but not his dignity......to me no cell phone is worth sticking my hand in a public toilet but to each is own, maybe he had is life stored on it, but who knows. Me I would walk away and as some have said he did not have to be talking on it to have it fall in, ever lose anything out of your pockets or is everyone here perfect, come on be real people!
JameelahOct 30th 2008 11:53AM
The logical thing to think is that they sawed off the toilet.
Doofy-Looking & ProudOct 30th 2008 1:02PM
For those of you who think it's too doofy-looking to have your cell phone in a belt holster, you go right ahead and keep it in a shirt pocket. And guess what happens when you bend over the bowl to reach the flush lever? No, really, think hard!
mouthfullofmmmsOct 30th 2008 1:15PM
HA.. I know someone who dropped a brand-new pair of 300$ glasses in a port-a-potty and went after them...
billpulkownikOct 30th 2008 2:25PM
with all the municipalities moaning about budget short's , i give them a continous cash cow , no tax raise or etc, just some goodcop's?????? who are on the ball not the take, , ticket phone users in their cars for at least a $150.00 a pop. accidents will decline , road saftey will improve, and maybe , just maybe we will see better drivers on the road. this is a cash cow that yet has to be tethered and milked. the builder.