One night, right before Christmas, my sister's boyfriend tried a very extreme method. He flushed an M-20 explosive down the toilet in hopes that it would unstick the knob. Instead, the toilet exploded, and he was nearly killed by flying porcelin shards. As it was, he had to go to the emergency room because a shard of the toilet was lodged in his stomach.

My favorite part of the story came later, when I was asking my sister if they were going to be kicked out. She said she wasn't worried about it ... because already had an extra toilet laying around.

Submitted on 07/03/2005

Submitted by: Adrienne Lopes
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Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
As a Personal Account, I like it - trying to use an M-20 firecracker to unstuff a stuffed up toilet! I certainly hope that they don't try to install the replacement toilet themselves...

Kelly said:
Neutral: Personal Account
This sounds suspicously like the toilet urban legend where someone sits on the toilet, drops somethng lit into it and causes an explosion because something else had been previously dropped into it. However as it's been submitted as a first hand account involving personal relatives, not just someone that knew someone else, I'll accept it.

Charles said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I'll go with the other moderators here... would it not have been smarter just to install the spare toilet, after all?

Tracy said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
It made me laugh - firstly: what's the story behind droping the oven knob down the toilet in the first place? secondly: what's the point of it all, when you could just install the spare toilet?

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