Most of them probably grew up using these:
Posted on 06/08/2014 5:05:11 PM PDT by Gamecock
Tragedy struck after a woman in China accidentally dropped her phone into an open-pit style toilet.
As reported by the South China Morning Post, the incident took place in Xinxiang city, located in the Henan province. After the woman’s cellphone fell into the cesspool, her husband climbed into the open pit that was filled knee-deep with waste to try and retrieve the phone, which had an estimated value of 2,000 yuan ($319 U.S. dollars).
The man was overcome by fumes and fainted. This caused other relatives and neighbors to enter the pit to try and rescue the victims. In total, six people were pulled from the pit. Despite the victims being trapped in the toilet for no more than five minutes, medical care was delayed because an ambulance took over an hour to arrive, according to eyewitnesses.
So far, two victims have died, including the husband of the woman who lost the cellphone. That woman was placed in the intensive care unit. The doctor treating the victims say they suffered from suffocation.
There was no word on whether the phone was recovered.
Most of them probably grew up using these:
The company attempted an education campaign by posting signs in the stalls in every language imaginable. The company was threatened with a lawsuit claiming racism and they backed down and removed the signs.
We just watch where we step and sit.
Just d-mn!
They would have been better off simply installing a few of the squat toilets. Everyone would have be happier!
This type of catastrophe happened just a few years back in Rockingham Co, VA. Whole family (I think it was 5 total) but the little girl died in the early morning around sunup in a cattle waste lagoon that wasn’t hardly 6 feet deep with sloped sides. Each entered after the previous trying to save them from a low oxygen/asphyxiant atmosphere from no breeze and cold air.
Confined spaces are NOTHING to screw around with. If you can’t hook someone who goes down in an enclosed area/depression with a tool without entering, you need to leave them or the rescuers will be recovering 2 or more bodies.
I’ve seen videos where even the trained responders have gotten themselves killed trying to short cut/speed up a confined space rescue.
Four Family Members, Farmhand Killed by Gas Fumes in Manure Pit
Four members of a Shenandoah Valley dairy farming family and a hired hand died Monday evening after breathing methane gas fumes inside a manure pit, Rockingham County authorities said yesterday.
The deaths occurred in rapid succession, as the hired hand tried to save the farmer, who was overcome with fumes while working inside the pit, which was enclosed and poorly ventilated, authorities said. The farmer’s wife and two daughters then jumped into the 10-foot hole, where they also died from exposure to the odorless gas, a byproduct of liquefied manure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/03/AR2007070302136.html
I remember that. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/03/AR2007070302136.html
Should have just applied for an OBAMAPHONE!
There are few “nice’ ways to die. That is one of the less nice ways.
Not anyone with a bad knee!
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