French Man Sucked Into Train Toilet

A guy on a high-speed train in France dropped his cellphone into the train's toilet. Not thinking about--or not knowing--the fact that those toilets have an automatic flushing mechanism stimulated by the presence of, er, objects in the toilet bowl (heheh...I didn't say "poop"!), the guy reached in for his phone, the flusher kicked in, and his arm was trapped in the toilet bowl!

Follow the link below for all the gory details. We are reminded, of course, of two somewhat related stories: the infamous obese woman supposedly stuck on the airplane toilet (investigated later by Mythbusters, as reported here by Poop Report), and our own classic Potty Mouth episode, "Bowls on the Go". Though luckily, we didn't stick any appendages in the (admittedly low-tech) Thai train toilet. Oh yeah, and we would be remiss without a Trainspotting reference as well (see photo above)...

Man's Arm Trapped in Train Toilet

Poop Facials in LA

You know, I hate to join the make-fun-of-vain-and-silly-rich-Southern-Californians bandwagon (I live in Northern California...believe me, there is such a bandwagon), but I can't resist today.

So you spend your life scurrying to where the sun is, to bask in it, to lay out in it, simply to walk in it (the very opposite of what most folks in Asia do, by the way), and then of course in a few decades, your skin is wrecked (if you're lucky...if you're unlucky, you get skin cancer).

So then what do you do? Go to a Beverly Hills spa and pay them $114-225 for a facial, which begins with them smearing bird poop on your face. I'm not making this up, you know...

By the way, they also put Russian (human) placenta on your face, for similar prices. But thakfully, that falls outside the purview of Potty Mouth.

Bird Poop Facials in LA

Fart Charges Dropped

You know we're digging deep here on Potty Mouth when we link to Perez Hilton's blog...but what can I say? It's been a slow week for potty and poop-related news. Hopefully next week things will start "moving" again, heheh.

But we leave you with this follow up to a story I had never heard the first part of: apparently this guy gets picked up for drunk driving, and while being detained, the cops won't let him use the bathroom. So he farts at them, and they charge him with assault for said flatulent aggression. Hmm, must have been a slow day for them, too. Anyway, they've dropped the charges now...

Fart Charges Dropped

School Principal Forces Students to Look Inside Bag of Poop

I keep telling you, I can't make up stuff this good! Via UPI:

PEYTON, Colo., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A Peyton, Colo., elementary school principal has apologized to parents and teachers for a "lesson" that involved students looking inside a bag of human waste.

Peyton Elementary Principal Michael Auclaire said Tuesday the incident Monday was the result of frustration he and the school's janitorial staff felt at the reoccurring messes in the bathroom frequented by fourth and fifth grade girls, The (Colorado Springs) Gazette reported Thursday.

He said the intention of having the children don gloves and look inside the bag of feces and urine was to help the children understand that it is inappropriate to defecate on the floor or toilet seats of the bathroom. However, he conceded that having the children handle the bag "was not the best thing to do."

"So today I went in and apologized to the kids, and I wrote a letter to apologize to their parents," he said.

Some parents questioned whether Auclaire, who started at the school this year, should be fired over the incident.

"I don't know if an apology is enough," parent Kerri Peters said. "How is he any better than the child who did this?"

She and other parents said no notices had been sent home about the bathroom problems prior to the incident.