Man unharmed by exploding toilet

April 17, 2008

"A 61-year-old Johnson City (NY) man said he wasn’t injured Wednesday when a toilet exploded with water and launched him against a wall...."

(http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080417/NEWS01/80417006)

Christie Anna says: To make up for my previous joke post, here we have an actual story - though one, perhaps, no less unbelievable. (And, I have to note, taking place less than an hour from where I attend college). I have to admit, if it came out tomorrow that this was a reporter's application for a job at The Onion and had no basis in fact, I wouldn't be surprised. First of all, how crazy is it to be attacked by an exploding toilet? And secondly, this attack came the day after he had a cancerous brain tumor removed? I'm not sure whether he's extremely lucky or extremely unlucky. Well, Mr. Szymanski, I hope things take a turn for the better for you. You survived neurosurgery one day and exploding appliances the next; that's something to be proud of. Best of luck to you, and you might want to work on that "sleeping with one eye open" thing for a while - just to be safe.