Man’s Arm Trapped in Train Toilet

“Mr. Simpson, this may be a stupid question…but are you just holding on to the can?”

I think he carried his phone in his shirt pocket.

When you bow to reach something your phone always falls from this pocket.

I can imagine that when it push on the flush button the phone felt from the shirt pocket not the pants pocket.

Earbox, that reminds me of a raccoon trap described in Where the Red Fern Grows. Cut a hole in a log just large enough to fit a raccoon paw, then insert something shiny. A wandering raccoon grabs the shiny object, can’t extract his fist, and then sits there trapped refusing to relinquish his prize.

Yes – the very minute chance that (a) my cell phone will fall in a train toilet and (b) that I will be dumb enough to stick my hand in after it is the VERY REASON I need to purchase a belt clip for my cell phone and go masquerading around looking like a self-important tool.

“This is why you should not carry your phone in your pants pocket. Use a secure clip.”

Malarkey. The last time I caught my dorky bat-belt cell phone holder on a door jam and the spring-loaded clip literally exploded sending the phone crashing to the ground, was when I started carrying my phone in my front pants pocket. Have never had any problems since.

When I’ve had to carry a larger PDA for work I either put in it my coat, shoulder bag, or briefcase. I can’t stand to have a brick of a gadget sticking out from my belt, like I’m a dang cop wearing tools. I’ve even seen people with two or more phones on belt holders, at the same time!

Similar reason I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a bluetooth headset. I have a wired one, when I need it. If cell phone radiation causes brain cancer, why wouldn’t yet another tiny transceiver, albeit of lower power, cause similar problems?

“He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off,” said Benoit Gigou, a witness to the man’s plight.

Wow, that must have hurt.