"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off."

What did they saw off, the toilet bowl or his hand?

About time we implemented TGVs over here then - quite apart from them being 20 times faster and more reliable than the %£$%£$ my train company claims is "a modern and exciting train service", they also try to chew the limbs off people who use their mobiles on trains.

That has to be a good thing, and I, for one, welcome our new 200mph 'phone hungry overlords.

Paris, for the French connection if nothing else.

>"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off."

>What did they saw off, the toilet bowl or his hand?

Well if the toilet was still attached to him then its a safe bet they didn't just carry out a bog and his arm!

Upto his elbow in Merde?

Paris, because of the French Connection, and I'm sure she knows what having a fist inserted is like.

never mind his hand or the toilet... did he recover his phone or not ?

/Paris icon just because of the phone angle

Now that's an obvious design failure, they should add a button to toggle flush / spray."

If he had managed to recover his phone from that big tank of crap and chemical soup it ended up in would he ever want to put that thing anywhere near his face again?

If there ever was a reason to use a hands free kit with your phone that would be it.

Was the phone (B)Loo-tooth compatable?

Back in the old days when dinosaurs lounged about, RoTM stood for "Rise of The Mammals". No one then believed in RoTM, or the T100 Exterminator...

And look what happened to the dinosaurs! Alligator steaks and snakeskin boots anyone?

...an iPhone. What other mobile device would you take on the metallic legion of doom for.

...welcome our limb-sucking lavatorial overlords...

At least in that article, we were fore-armed. Not so in this case, clearly!

IGMC.

Mine's the one with the very smelly sleeve.

>What did they saw off, the toilet bowl or his hand?

someone should clarify this... unless their agenda is to keep people away from toilets in trains... i for one am frightened, for some people it's a reflex thing to dive for that phone...

cheers.

... is not excuse enough to stick your hands down a French khazi!

For having a damnable mobe on a train and pissing off all the other passengers. Sorry, no sympathy here.

have "suction flush" so if your sitting on it when you flush and get a bit unlucky qell lets just say a relative of mine who is a train driver has had to release a few people on this side of the pond because the loo wanted to suck them in. There is a release valve. How ever they'll be a nice red ring all round your um, yeah.

I bet the guy was flushed with embarassment...

Ok, I'm going, I'm going!

I thought French train toilets worked on broadly the same principle as British ones, i.e. they just flushed onto the tracks. The Belgian ones certainly did last time I was there; they were fitted with neither a U-bend nor a flap, and you could see the ground rushing past below as you did your business.

"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off."

Why did they need to saw off his hand? Watching too many SAW movies?