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October 22, 2018

This flushing system can make your toilet explode. So, 1.4 million have been recalled

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Police have nothing to go on?

Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | October 22, 2018 at 10:31 AM

The recall happens at the same time as Burger King's Halloween promotion? The timing couldn't be worse.

Posted by: wanderer2575 | October 22, 2018 at 10:47 AM

Colleges now have to come up with alternate safe space.

Posted by: Clankie | October 22, 2018 at 11:08 AM

I just made a hurried trip upstairs to check the toilet up there - it's not one of the recalls.

Posted by: Pogo | October 22, 2018 at 11:15 AM

Meanwhile, police body cams are exploding in New York City. Co-incidence? I think not!

Posted by: wiredog | October 22, 2018 at 11:27 AM

So can eating Mexican food.

Posted by: Rudolph | October 22, 2018 at 11:38 AM

Still available on Amazon with free shipping

Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | October 22, 2018 at 11:43 AM

Who thought you could get a real bang out of using a toilet? I do wonder what that one person was doing when an exploding toilet caused them to need foot surgery.

Posted by: Le Petomane | October 22, 2018 at 12:04 PM

That's a good question Le Petomane. I never treated a patient that had been injured by an exploding toilet but I imagine their injuries would be similar to the ones a patient got after they sat on a glass coffee table. They were naked at the time and it was not a pretty sight.

Posted by: nursecindy | October 22, 2018 at 12:31 PM

Has anyone informed Al Bundy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL2YRDzpTL4

Posted by: ImNotDave | October 22, 2018 at 12:32 PM

Why take a chance and warn Canada? The people are in a perpetual state of over-excitement as it is.

Posted by: manual 'kablooie' tomato | October 22, 2018 at 01:05 PM

See Dave, this is what happens when you have to have a high flow toilet in a low flow age.

Posted by: Loudmouth | October 22, 2018 at 01:37 PM

The remaining characters are the model code, which starts with M and ends with F .. because that is what some victims are known to shout when being lacerated by exploding porcelain shrapnel. IYKWIM(AITYD)

Posted by: MOTW | October 22, 2018 at 01:43 PM

This article doesn't leave me flushed with enthusiasm.

Posted by: fractalist | October 22, 2018 at 01:52 PM

Exploding Toilets NOT AGNFARB. However, on talk like a pirate day - THAR SHE BLOWS.

Posted by: Gandalf the Old | October 22, 2018 at 02:27 PM

"And concerns about blowing the tank aren’t just theoretical."

"Blowing the tank" or the science of Expanding Spontaneous Relative Regeneration (ESRR), a mostly summer time phenomenon which occurs at family reunions and explains the existence of strange Uncle Schrapnel and cousin Shard.

Posted by: Slim Chance | October 22, 2018 at 02:33 PM

for my fellow geezer bus riders I keep thinking about Archie Bunker and the 'terlet' flush sound.

Posted by: MOTW | October 22, 2018 at 03:17 PM

What band did, "Exploding Toilets" open for?

"John" Cougar?

Posted by: L8terg8r | October 22, 2018 at 05:14 PM

Tha never happens to my mother-in law.

Posted by: Mikey123 | October 22, 2018 at 06:57 PM

We have those systems at work in our toilets. Nothing has exploded yet. (ha)

Posted by: Theresa | October 22, 2018 at 10:00 PM

Thanks Dave! I have *two* of these in my house. The toilet police are on the way!

Posted by: steve | October 23, 2018 at 06:10 AM