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Exploding toilet gives man PTSD

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#1 ·
A Brooklyn man has to flush with a rope a "safe distance away" after his toilet exploded last week, sending shrapnel into his face, arms and legs.

The accident occurred after his apartment building turned off the water so that a contractor could install a backflow prevention valve.

The 58-year-old man — who now plans to sue the building's management company — pulled the toilet handle around 11 p.m. to test the water pressure, and the bowl exploded in what he called a "porcelain bomb."

He was briefly knocked unconscious and required 30 stitches that left a scar across his face.

According to a lawyer for the co-op, four other toilets in the building also exploded.

"The only conclusion anybody has reached — and they're still investigating — is that there was a buildup of air pressure in the pipes so that when it came back on, the pressure was just pushed through the pipe and caused the explosion," she told AFP.
Source: Gawker (http://gawker.com/brooklyn-man-has-ptsd-from-exploding-toilet-1444337525)
 
#15 ·
He is usually the one exploding into the toilet, this is probably just years of revenge coming back to haunt him.
 
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