A Dropped Phone, a Train Toilet, and Massive Humiliation

The BBC reports that a passenger on a French train had to be rescued after dropping his mobile down the toilet, reaching in after it, and getting stuck. Apparently the 26-year-old man tried to fish his phone out of the toilet bowl when his arm got sucked into the toilet’s powerful suction system. Emergency personnel […]

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The BBC reports that a passenger on a French train had to be rescued after dropping his mobile down the toilet, reaching in after it, and getting stuck.

Apparently the 26-year-old man tried to fish his phone out of the toilet bowl when his arm got sucked into the toilet's powerful suction system.

Emergency personnel carried the man away, after a 2-hour rescue operation, with the toilet still attached to his arm.

No word on whether his hand was still holding the phone.
Man's arm trapped in train toilet [BBC]

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UPDATE: This is not the first time an accident like this has happened on board a train, either: Wired.com's Dave Demerjian has the lowdown on
phone-train-toilet accidents over on our sister blog, Autopia.