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NY Man Drops Cell In
Train Toilet, Gets Arm Stuck

ABC News Online - Australia
10-31-3

(Reuters) -- Phone users have been known to complain about poor service, but one New York man's mobile literary went down the toilet.
 
The man was on a suburban train from Grand Central Station on Wednesday night local time, when he went to the bathroom to make a phone call, dropped the phone into the toilet bowl and then his hand and arm became stuck trying to retrieve it, officials said.
 
Metro-North Railroad staff could not help the man, so they stopped the train and called police officers and firefighters to extricate him, a process that took 90 minutes using "jaws of life" rescue equipment.
 
"The toilets are made of aluminium so I imagine he was down on hands and knees with his shirt rolled up and hand and arm down inside, trying to retrieve his cell phone," Connecticut Metro-North commuter council spokesman Jim Cameron said.
 
He said that because of the design of the train toilet, the mobile probably ended up in a chemical holding tank.
 
A spokesman for the railroad that serves the northern suburbs of New York and Connecticut identified the man as 41-year-old Edwin Gallard of New York, who suffered a minor injury to his arm as firefighters cut the toilet apart.
 
The track was closed and thousands of commuters were delayed during the evening rush hour.
 
© 2003 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s980002.htm


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