Flushed Down the Toilet: One Passenger’s Arm

Travel Blog  •  Valerie Conners  •  10.28.08 | 8:18 AM ET

A man riding a high speed train in France had to be rescued by emergency workers after dropping his cell phone down the train’s toilet, reaching in to extract it and having his arm trapped by the suction system. Said one witness, “He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off.” Wow.

Tags: Train Travel, Tres Loco, Europe, France, Paris, Shrinking Planet

Valerie Conners

Valerie Conners is the senior producer and editor at World Hum.


3 Comments for Flushed Down the Toilet: One Passenger’s Arm

Ling 10.28.08 | 11:18 AM ET

Good thing he didn’t poke his head in to see where the cell phone was stuck.

Frank 10.28.08 | 1:05 PM ET

Ouch! Who knew the sound of one hand crapping would involve power tools?

John M. Edwards 10.28.08 | 5:20 PM ET

Hi Valerie:

An egregious blooper. Luckily, the guy’s arm got stuck in the toilet on the high-speed TGV, which could rush him to rescue, rather than some godforsaken roadside gas station far from civilization, where his plaintive mews for help would have gone unheeded.

John M. Edwards

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