Author Topic: Sky Toilet horror! Don't flush whilst sitting (Read 468 times)

Mickey1992 · « **on:** January 22, 2002, 10:23:36 AM »

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020122/od/flush_dc_1.html

Tuesday January 22 8:58 AM ET
Flushed with Anger -- Sky Toilet Horror
OSLO (Reuters) - An American woman had no need to fasten her seatbelt on a flight from Scandinavia to the United States after a high-pressure vacuum flush sealed her to the toilet seat of the transatlantic airliner.

The woman filed a complaint with Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) after her ordeal on a Boeing 767 flight last year. She got sucked in after pushing the flush button while seated, activating a system to clean the toilet by vacuum, the airline said Monday.

``She could not get up by herself and had to sit on the toilet until the flight had landed so that ground technicians could help her get loose,'' a SAS spokeswoman told Reuters. ``She was stuck there for quite a long time.''

-lynx- · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2002, 10:42:27 AM »

Jeepers - Yahoo news are obviously taking their readers as a bunch of complete idiots...

Ripsnort · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2002, 10:50:46 AM »

Bet that left a mark!

Maniac · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2002, 10:52:30 AM »

Thats how all Swedish toilets work!!! Dont sit and flush if you are in Sweden!!

Eagler · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2002, 11:56:00 AM »

sounds to me like she had a rather large arse if she couldn't move her legs and break the seal .... Weight Watchers to the rescue

Swoop · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:59:34 PM »

Blimey! Do people really flush while still sat there?

Damn, that's......that's.......well, that's just plain yucky. What about splashback? Ew. No. No. No more talking about it. Not coming back to this thread, especially while eating.

RightF00T · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2002, 06:32:53 PM »

good thing she wasnt throwing up LMAO

Toad · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2002, 07:25:32 PM »

Sorry, I'm skeptical about this.

I'm pretty familiar with the 767 aircraft...even down to the toilets.

The toilets have seats...there are gaps between the seat and the toilet bowl. Unless this woman was so "bountiful" that her flesh overflowed to the point of flowing into the gap between the seat and the bowl... it'd be awfully tough to maintain a vacuum any length of time.

Even at that, I'd think it wouldn't last the whole flight without the seal slowly seeping the vacuum away.

Creamo · « **Reply #8 on:** January 22, 2002, 08:14:58 PM »

Impossible.

I always thought the myth about the guy getting his nads sucked into the bowl hole by the vaccum was much more awful anyways.

It' as bad a visual as the joke about dude who takes a crap in the woods and sets off a bear trap. ("I bet that hurt...naw, nothing like till I hit the end of the chain)

john9001 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 22, 2002, 08:20:05 PM »

help ...help... i've craped and i can't get up...........sounds like another urban legend

Tac · « **Reply #10 on:** January 22, 2002, 08:49:39 PM »

LOL!

I havent seen the picture of this lady (if it happened in the first place), but if she's a walking JELLO monster then its possible her fat bellybutton got sucked in and because of her inmense weight she was unable to "pull out". Maybe a flap of her fat got sucked inside the tube mwahaha.

If she wasnt obese, then her bellybutton may have slipped inside the bowl during the suction and she may have had 1 of her hips (or both, ive seen some reaaally narrow hips) "dunked" inside and she was trapped.

Either way, its something I wouldnt dream of suing an airline for. The jury would be laughing their assess off, not to mention becoming internationally known as "she who's bellybutton got stuck in the 747's toilet for 7 hours".

SirLoin · « **Reply #11 on:** January 22, 2002, 09:18:13 PM »

Lol!..This story reminds me of a poor chap last year who sat down on a cracked toilet seat and had his knackers..err..stuck..He ended up suing the the restauraunt.Now can you imagine that happening in a 767 during turbulence?..Wait..DON't!!!:eek:

indian · « **Reply #12 on:** January 23, 2002, 12:13:36 AM »

It aint possible shed have to crush thr shroud around the toilet that set over the vacuum bowl not just the toilet seat its self.

Heres some thing to do if you work on the super sonic toejamters!!! take a roll of TP and stick a wad in the toilet and walk back unrolling as you go to 30 40 feet behind the foward door break it off and go flush!!!! flight attendants love to show this one.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 31, 2002, 07:57:31 AM »

Why in the world would SAS release this information to the press if they could not confirm it was true?

Wednesday January 30 1:40 PM ET
CORRECTED: Airline Says In-Flight Toilet Ordeal Story False
(airline says report was false; Jan. 22 story withdrawn)

OSLO (Reuters) - A spokeswoman for Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) said a report of a woman being stuck on an airplane toilet was false.

The original report said a woman had filed a complaint with SAS after her ordeal on a Boeing 767 flight last year. The woman supposedly got sucked in after pushing the flush button while seated, activating a system to clean the toilet by vacuum.

The SAS spokeswoman said internal checks had since shown that the company's original information was false.

``We regret that we presented the story as true,'' she said.

skernsk · « **Reply #14 on:** January 31, 2002, 08:41:13 AM »

I have a hard time beieving it.

BUT ... can you imagine the "buurrrrp" sound and she was plucked from the seat:)