Exploding toilet
 

Woman sues after toilet exploded on train.

http://tinyurl.com/y8c9apg

Was she insured against this sort of thing? I get the impression she was fully covered.... :D

Nice one Dave, I have to smile even though it was probably a nasty experience for the lady in question eh. She probably was covered.

More Toilet Trouble
 

More toilet trouble from the same site.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...toilet_attack/

Do you suppose she might have been a USA railway enthusiast? Then it might well have been a case of what happens 'when the s**t hits the railfan' ! :D
...and what's the chances that if she'd come to the UK some years back, a similar event may have occurred on a 6-PAN or 4-LAV EMU? Or possibly on a train hauled by 'Deltic' D9012 'Crapello'? Wow! Real lavatorial humour! :)

That's easily explained - all French toilets suck...
Looks like he was on the phone, and was put on 'hold'. I wonder if he ever got his crappy phone back? I bet he was flushed! :D

Back in 800 days we ran into Newquay the train emptied the shunter uncoupled the engine to run around we got on the other end the shunter went in between and while he was in there a woman flushed the toilet the pipe was right next to Joe the shunter, he shouted at the top of his voice YOU DIRTY B?????? in think the whole of Newquay must of heard it.
She got out of the train and walked down the platform very quickly.
I had tears running down my face :D :D :D.

ccmmick.

He He
 

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I had tears running down my face :D :D :D.ccmmick.[/QUOTE]

What was running down his face.

So, do toilets discharge onto the tracks ?

I remember the EMU's on the Southend (Victoria) line had a sign asking passengers not to use toilets while the train was in a station.

The thought of the tracks being contaminated with flushed "richards" seems a little unsavoury.:eek::D

I don't think that ALL discharge on the track - I visited Ferme Park carriage sidings years ago, and the bog tanks were emptied there, but then again, I've noticed a Richard III on the tracks at Portsmouth Harbour station, everyone started singing 'Golden Brown' at the time! :)

Apparently in America they discharge into the cubicle! :D

Most older train toilets emptied straight on to the track but newer trains have retention tanks.

In my wide and varied travels in Europe (and North Africa) between 1977 and 1994, the vast majority of trains had toilets fitted with a hinged flap down the pan, flushing meant that water forced down the flap and washed (some/most) of whatever onto the track; you could see the sleepers flashing (flushing?) past. Often, the flaps wouldn't fully return to the 'closed' position, and, especially in winter, sitting on the throne involved getting a very draughty rear end. :D:eek:

Most of the trains I've travelled on in Continental europe, even the more modern NS Sprinter units discharge onto the track, and dont mention toilets on Chinese Trains, I feel ill at the very thought of using (and smelling the stench) from one!

This guy was a guardsman for South African Railways for 50 years, so when his retirement came up, the railways built him a circular track and gave him a disused railway carriage in which to live as his retirement home. He was delighted. A few months later his ex boss decided to visit to see how he was enjoying his retirement. On arrival, he noticed the guy's wife grunting and puffing, pushing the carriage around the track. "What's up?", he asked the couple. "Well boss, after all these years in the Railways, don't you know that the toilets only work while the train is in motion?" :D

Did the lady in the original post "Get her own Back ":D:D:D

I expect so; some of it was in the paper... :)
Would the actions of such a person making a claim in the courts following such an event be described as 'sueage' ? :D

A quick true story. In my early 20's I worked in a tax accountants. One of our best customers who contacted us almost daily, went quiet for a couple of months which was unlike him. We eventually got a letter from him with a photo of him in a wheelchair with a broken arm and leg.

He had been having a sneaky fag on the throne and when finished put it between his legs into the bowl and that was about the last he remembered before waking up in hospital. Seemingly his wife was frightened of spiders, and had brushed one into the toilet bowl and for whatever reason decided to pour a whole tin of lighter fluid on top of it :eek::rolleyes::D

Our customer had severe burns to his rear end and a broken leg as he landed on the edge of the bath surrounded by the remains of the bowl. When the ambulancemen were carrying him down the stairs they were not concentrating (they may have been laughing) and they dropped the stretcher which caused his broken arm !! The story later appeared in in book of strange accidents as the local paper got the story (he never forgave his wife either), but it was absolutely true. :D

Good story Pesmo although his wife pouring lighter fluid down the loo sounds daft. I wonder if they got divorced afterwards.

I would not have thought that smoking in a toilet was a good thing !

Specially as the gas from a "bottie cough" is methane.:eek::D

As far as I can recall, almost EVERYBODY'S dad sat on the throne smoking a fag while they read the newspaper! MY dad never exploded... :)

S??? Happens :D :D.

ccmmick.

Naturally. But he never exploded though... :D