Two die, 3 hurt after woman drops cellphone in toilet pit

Open pit toilet? New phone? The two just don't seem to go together.

The worst place my phone has been was a bag of yard waste. Difficult to find without a land line. I had to message someone thru facebook and ask them to keep calling me until I answered.

I do know 2 people that flushed their electronic "key" fob down a toilet and tried to get it before it was sucked away forever. Those were some expensive flushes.

Well, there was that Jurassic Park scene where it rang and they dug through the dino dung for it, so maybe they figured it wouldn't be too bad.

A dear friend received a call from mutual friend:
Help Help Help! We were hiking and he's dead!!
(where are you?)
There's trees! There's rocks! He's dead! God hates me!

Cellphone saved her, but companion really was dead on their hike, yikes.

Mine fell out of my hoodie pocket into the toilet. Thank God it was after I flushed.

I had no compunction about reaching in the water and grabbing it...didn't even think twice about it.

Once it fell in the toilet pit, I wouldn't want it back. But it would be fun to call it when other people were in the outhouse and have them look around.

The temperature must have been exactly "right" to keep the methane so toxic while the sewage was only knee-deep. Everybody that jumped in musta thought it wasn't deadly, just nasty, right?

Anyway, what a romantic (or stingy) husband! "Honey, I dropped my phone....." "No problem."

FredHayek wrote: Once it fell in the toilet pit, I wouldn't want it back. But it would be fun to call it when other people were in the outhouse and have them look around.

Reminds me of when we made port in Mombasa. Part of our liberty brief was not to eat salad because it was fertilized with night soil (human waste). Veggies are a treat after weeks under way. It tasted the same to me.

By the same token, wash the phone wash your hands. If the phone works when it is dry, what difference does it make.

Right, I have a gf who routinely drops hers into the Wherever, and it still works like a Timex.

She has a real potty, though, not an outhouse.

I am having a hard time imagining an open-pit toilet that would be large enough for husband and two other family members to become unconscious in. Since we don't recycle human waste as vegetarian societies do, we would call that a cesspool or holding-tank for a sanitation facility. There must be a ledge above it, with seats built in, right? big enough for the fanny and cellphone -- and the carkeys, passport, and baby too. How dangerous is that?! :Speechless2:
If it'll kill ya a few feet further down, you gotta really have to go, just to be in there.

Just another reason to say NO to those dang gadgets. I hate cell phones. END OF SUBJECT.