Fag blows man off bog
Found on The Inquirer on Friday, 03 June 2005
Rich pickings for the Schadenfreude minded at the China Post this morning. The paper reports that John Jenkins will sue a coal company after he lit a cigarette in a mobile toilet and suffered burns after being blown off the toilet seat and out of the door.
Jenkins alleges that methane gas was leaking from a pipe underneath the pedestal.
Oddly enough, Mr Jenkins is a methane power plant operator with North West Fuels Development. He wants $10 million damages from Eastern Associated Coal and Chisler Inc, the paper said.
His face, neck, torso and legs were badly burned. Ouch!
Or it might have just been natural gas...