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Default Exploding toilets

Here's the whole story which you'd have to scroll down to read:

"FLUSH, KABOOM! IN SOUTH CAROLINA

"The terror that strikes from below – an exploding toilet bowl – is sowing
fear and fecal water all over the small, confusingly named town of North,
South Carolina. The Improvised Bathroom Device lashed at the civic heart of
North itself, going off in the men's bathroom inside Town Hall, reports the
Times and Democrat. The stall's occupant had fortunately stepped away
seconds before the eruption, which blew a third of the tank to smithereens
and lodged porcelain shrapnel in a door. The culprit was a toilet engineered
for heavy public use that employs a high-pressure valve and less water than
normal.

"Detonating toilets have become a recent scourge in the American bathroom
scene. Although the brand of North's rogue crapper is unknown, earlier this
summer Flushmate issued a massive voluntary recall of pressurized toilets
after about 300 people complained of explosions. One poor victim of such a
buttock-shaking barrage said that 'I required dozens of stitches for an
extremely deep wound,' although being 'a bigger person, I was able to absorb
the brunt of the force.' "

With pic of exploded toilet (minus shrapnel in victim's body):
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/nei...-toilets/3606/


 
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