Extreme Toilet Plunger

One redditor jokes that it's the "I wasn't asking" version of the toilet plunger.

Redditor /u/brewstah saw this plunger at a hardware store in Osterville, Massachussets. Why was it made this way? There's speculation that it's to prevent a customer from walking off with it, although I think that a used plunger is an item unlikely to be stolen.

My guess is that the employees had to assemble a plunger on short notice and grabbed an available handle. In this case, it was a broom handle.

-via David Thompson