Student trapped in toilet after fishing for cellphone

According to Engadget, "a Lebanese student studying in the Ukraine had to be rescued from his bathroom after getting a hand stuck in the toilet trying to retrieve his cell phone. He was trapped for two hours before being freed".

This reminds me of a story which spread on the Web a couple of years ago, about a gentleman who reached for his droppepd cell phone in the toilet of a commuter train from Grand Central Station, and got stuck. As CNN reported at the time, "Metro-North Railroad staff could not help the man, so they stopped the train and called police officers and firefighters to extricate his hand, a process that took 90 minutes using "jaws of life" rescue equipment. How embarrassing.

emily | 9:02 PM | News, Buzz |
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