Hand Stuck in Toilet Halts Train
A man brought a French TGV high-speed train to a halt when his hand got stuck down a toilet.
The hapless passenger, traveling Sunday from Paris to the southern town of Toulouse, dropped his wallet down the toilet, bent over to retrieve the wallet--and wedged his hand firmly in the bowl.
He sounded the alarm, and the train stopped at Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, near the central town of Tours.
Firemen with metal cutters extricated him, and the toilet bowl, from the train. French television showed him lying on the station platform with the toilet wrapped around his arm.
Fellow passengers had to wait for another train before they could continue their journey, because the first train’s safety mechanism had jammed.
The TGV acronym stands for Train de Grande Vitesse, or Very Fast Train. The express train can hit speeds of more than 180 m.p.h.
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