See, now, if the plans to jam mobile phone signals on trains go through people will start trying to get creative and we could end up seeing a lot more of this sort of thing.
A passenger on a French TGV train somehow managed to drop his mobile phone down the toilet. Crouching down to fish it out he - and again it is not entirely clear how this happened - accidentally stuck his hand really far down. It was at this point that the automated suction mechanism kicked in, dragging his hand even further in and trapping him.
The normally high-speed train was delayed for two hours between La Rochelle and Paris while firefighters cut through the pipes. The shame-faced passenger was then carried into a waiting ambulance with the toilet still attached to his arm.
No word on the whereabouts of his phone, although he probably stopped wanting it back after the first hour or so.
