Hello, 911? My toilet exploded!!

[Diggin It]

Lightning strikes causes toilet to explode 'like a missile' in Florida home
WSYM | Tue Aug 06, 2019 20:47 UTC

A Port Charlotte homeowner's septic tank, sewer system and plumbing exploded after lightning struck near the septic tank



Umm, ... ewwww


:shocked:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Excuse me...

 

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Lightning strikes causes toilet to explode 'like a missile' in Florida home
WSYM | Tue Aug 06, 2019 20:47 UTC

A Port Charlotte homeowner's septic tank, sewer system and plumbing exploded after lightning struck near the septic tank



Umm, ... ewwww


:shocked:

Funny comment in the link "No more pooping while it’s storming outside."

Not sure how the septic got hit by lighting...
Mine is under a few feet of dirt in the lawn, and there's a 150' tree very close by as well as a roofline that's a good 30' above the lawn.
I'll keep using my toilet.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Mine did the same thing after a really bad bean burrito. I told my insurance agent it was lightning also.

 

[ruffdog]

It looks like they will be using the poop pail for a while.....

 

[Wagtail]

Fire in the HOLE!

 

[Industrial Toys]

Like a BOMB, maybe, but a Missile? Just like the one that hit the Pentagon I guess. Don't take my word for it. Rumsfelt said so himself.

 

[Jstpssng]

Try explaining that one to your insurance adjuster.

 

[Diggin It]

Hi Flo, my hi-flo loo went kablooey.

 

[PILOON]

LOL, methane has a habit of going BOOM

Hope you weren't sitting on it at the time.

LOL, reminds me of using a public loo at a major department store.
For some reason when I flushed a geyser exploded from the throne and did a job of painting me with an undesirable mess.
I politely requested a minimum change of clothes but got laughed at.
To make a long story short I wrote to senior management and made a claim for damages and was compensated adequately.
Had they not ridiculed me and simply offered minimal clean clothing I would not have taken the issue higher up.

 

[Jstpssng]

LOL, methane has a habit of going BOOM

Hope you weren't sitting on it at the time.

LOL, reminds me of using a public loo at a major department store.
For some reason when I flushed a geyser exploded from the throne and did a job of painting me with an undesirable mess.
I politely requested a minimum change of clothes but got laughed at.
To make a long story short I wrote to senior management and made a claim for damages and was compensated adequately.
Had they not ridiculed me and simply offered minimal clean clothing I would not have taken the issue higher up.

That's how the infamous McDonald's coffee lawsuit came about. The woman recieved second degree burns after spilling her coffee and asked for help with the medical bills. Management refused, lawyers got involved, and the rest as they say is history.

 

[k0ua]

Well... Crap!. Literally.

 

[Jim Shooz]

There was a hard case Aussie, Jack 'Gelignite Murray. His specialty was to light and drop a stick of gelignite down a Long Drop dunny. At one local county fair he put a long fuse on a stick, dropped it down the dunny and went and found the local cop. When the dunny went up he was talking to the cop. The cop knew he had done it but couldn't pin it on him.

 

[ruffdog]

That's how the infamous McDonald's coffee lawsuit came about. The woman received second degree burns after spilling her coffee and asked for help with the medical bills. Management refused, lawyers got involved, and the rest as they say is history.

She was burned quite badly as I have seen pictures. She never fully recovered and passed away.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I know. I saw the documentary. It changed my whole thinking on the matter. BURNS can be a terrible thing!

 

[coldsteelva]

Burns destroy skin. Skin is the largest human organ and your 1st line of defense. Damaged skin leads to an open pathway for germs, bacteria, viruses into your bloodstream. Infections overtax and compromise your immune system leading to death.

 

[JPRambo]

Port Charlotte is 10 miles from me. I don't know the story but with the lightning we get here in SW Florida I don't doubt the story.

 

[Jstpssng]

She was burned quite badly as I have seen pictures. She never fully recovered and passed away.

I knew that she was severely burned but didn't realize she had succumbed to her injuries. There were several employees who had gotten burned before her, also. I did know that there was more to the story than just getting a mild burn or just somebody trying to make a quick buck.
Then the lawyers got involved, and they were just trying to make a quick buck.

 

[PILOON]

Then the lawyers got involved, and they were just trying to make a quick buck.

The 'all American way'. (and they get the largest share)

I posted earlier about my incident but failed to mention that NO lawyers were involved, the chain dept store simply offered a 'good will' gesture as an apology, which I accepted.
(I don't recall the actual amount but it was a few $100's.)

 

[Alan W.]

Maybe Farmers Insurance will add this to their line of commercials.