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Old July 11th, 2004, 12:03 AM
WOODY WOODY is offline
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Toilet injuries

There are a couple of places that record such inane information.
The toilet sits there and never attacks anyone however it get blamed for many injuries.
Here are some of the more common occurances.
1) Persons who are violently ill or drunk and barffing their stomach contents into the bowl are often struck on the back of the head by the falling toilet set thus chipping or knocking out a tooth or splitting a lip.
2) Persons who attempt a blind landing on the throne and forget to check the position of the seat. If it is up, many users (mainly women) report getting their bums stuck in the bowl and some receive bruises. Others receive cuts when helpful friends break the bowl to free them and they fall out thus landing on sharp porcelein -- thus gashing their bums (ouch).
3) Many people get their arms stuck in the goose neck bend at the bottom of the toilet bowl while chasing keys, glasses, cell phones,check books, money etc that has fallen in the toilet or been flushed.
4) Sprains and back muscle spasms from twisting to reach and turn off the water supply (located under the tank and dang near inaccessible) to flooding toilets.
5) More men than you would expect report to hospitals that the toilet lid slammed down on their private plumbing parts. (One can only wonder what they were attempting when this happened)
6) persons getting out of a tub with wet feet and placing feet on tile floor-slipping and falling into-onto or next to the toilet. (Why bathroom designers place toilets across from the bath tub is a point to ponder - possibly so the toilet user can communicate with the tub user?) Too much closeness in the relationship. LOL
These are some of the most frequent items reported by the medical and legal professions in the states.
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