Sure, an exploding toilet sounds like an hilarious gag, but in reality, when a crapper blows up because of increased water/air pressure, it’s not laughing matter.
An unidentified woman who is an employee at the General Services Administration Building (GSA) in Washington D.C. was on said toilet when it exploded. Although her injuries were described as serious, they are non-life threatening, which is nice to hear.
The odd part is that the GSA employees were warned, via memo, not to use the toilets. The memo doesn’t indicate if the warning was sent out before or after the incident, but if it was beforehand, why wouldn’t the woman heed the memo’s message. And if it was afterwards, won’t that look bad on the company for not taking precautions to protect their employees from exploding toilets?
A conundrum indeed.
Here’s the memo…
“DO NOT flush toilets or use any domestic water. Due to a mechanical failure, there is high air pressure in the domestic water system that resulted in damage to toilets. The engineering staff is working to correct the issue. There has been damage to flushed toilets that has resulted in injuries. We will announce when the issue is resolved.”
Does the part about “damage to flushed toilets that has resulted in injuries” refer to the injured woman, or is just a reference to past toilet exploding related injuries? We may never know.
What we do know is that although this female GSA employee is a victim of an unfortunate toilet mishap, she should be just fine, which is good news indeed.
[WTSP.com]
