After reading this on the BBC website I am not sure how safe it is to use a mobile phone. Or maybe it was just operator failure as one of my colleagues did the same thing with their phone recently. Luckily that one was retrieved without any personal injury! Maybe the instruction manual should have some sort of health warning about having a mobile phone too close to a toilet?
A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.
The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.
The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while firemen cut through the train's pipework.
The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm.
"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off," said Benoit Gigou, a witness to the man's plight.
The incident happened on Sunday evening, aboard a train travelling in western France between La Rochelle and Paris.
15 comments:
Oh dear! Maybe we should all have our mobiles attached to lanyards at all times.
I read this too. It's the kind of accident my father-in-law would have. Wonder if he's been in France recently.
Life is fraught with danger!
Options:
Sit down to use the phone.
Don't use it in any toilet.
Insure it against toilet trauma and let it go.
Perhaps companies should have soundproof phone cubicles for those who have simly got to go and talk privately.
Then of course there is M's lanyard solution which is good.
The message is clear, Cherie. If on a train, don't go to the toilet. If you do, don't use your phone. If you do use your phone, don't stand up during operations.
That must have been very inconvenient, excuse the pun!
Yegods!
A bog standard problem left him a little flushed - took the whole thing in lieu of payment....
Dragonstar - Lanyards sounds good!
Calum - I think you have a few stories there that need to be told ;-)
JMB - Isn't it just!
Aileni - All good options. One of my pet hates is when in the ladies loo someone in the next cubicle answers a mobile phone call....
James - You need to write the manual to go with the phone!
Ellee - Think your jokes are meeting a level with Jams ;-)
Jams - Exactly ;-)
Mutley - LOL you have made my day :-) Thank You.
dumbing down again..
Train stopped for 2 hours because someone needs to phone home - THAT VERY INSTANT. I would have said "only in the UK.." but it is not..
Jonathan - It seems it can happen anywhere...
cherrypie,
The downside of being unable to be parted from a mobile.
2345 - It certainly makes you think!
Remove the toilets on trains, not only will mobile phones be safe but there will be more seating.
That's what they are doing on some of the Southwest trains, I know, it sounds unbelieveabl. They suggest that if passengers wish to use the toilet they can alight at the next stop, do their business and resume their journey via the next train.
Bring back the keystone cops.
I did see that about the toilets on trains in the Southwest.
It made me wonder what sort of a protest would be best to counteract that nonsense ;-)
Post a Comment