Here’s something you don’t read about happening every day.
The BBC has this story about a man traveling on the TGV in France Sunday who got his hand sucked down the train’s toilet.
Apparently the man’s cell phone had fallen in and he was trying to retrieve it.
The train had to stop for two hours while rescue crews responded, cutting through the train’s plumbing to free…the toilet.
That’s right: The man was taken off the train with the toilet still attached to his hand (or, his hand still stuck in the toilet). A witness tells the BBC that emergency responders had to saw the toilet in half to free the man’s hand.
Probably a good thing this happened on the TGV, whose toilets are typically in a little better shape than, say, the toilets on an overnight train in Ukraine.