China Menaced by Exploding Toilet
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Dec 11, 2010 06:08 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, China, Made in China, Toilets, Zhejiang
As if exploding chairs were not enough, now China is apparently being tormented by exploding toilets.
The incident began in an apartment in China’s Zhejiang province, where a woman had a toilet with in-seat heater installed in 2004.
Residents of the apartment building reported hearing a large explosion, and a plume of black smoke coming from the window of the room in which the toilet was installed.
Reportedly the toilet was completely destroyed – the toilet itself was split in two, the seat was reduced to ashes and even the water tank was charred and broken.
Fortunately, nobody was using the toilet at the time.
The local fire department speculates that water leaked into the toilet’s electronics and caused a short circuit.
The maker of the toilet is not specified, although if it were Japanese it seems unlikely the Chinese media would be reticent about reporting it.
As one observer puts it, “Is there anything in China which doesn’t explode?”
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... Did you need your seat to be heated THAT much?
they want to save the trouble taking water from the toilet, so they move their kitchen into the toilet instead.
Oh snap!... That joke was actually kind of depressing, lol.
Holey Crappers Batman!
China seems to apply rocket science on everything they make. What a shocker...
QUALITY toilets.
Quality made in china.
Too bad nobody was there to take a picture... I've got an image in my head of a mushroom cloud coming out of a toilet...
First thing that pop in my head was the Lethal Weapon 2 toilet scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswHKZib3Bc
And as soon as I type that, I think of a design that would lead to an explosion. hooray me.
takes explosive diarrhea to a whole new level
wow, now that would be one truly shitty way to go...
will china ever quit trying to ass rape everybody?
The only thing which China makes that doesn't explode is probably explosives...
@DiamondDust you made my weekend, I'm going to watch the Lethal Weapon film series.
I have one of those Toto heated seats from Japan. A warm toilet seat is a wonderful thing in the winter.
i thought that sewage backed up, and was under pressure, until finally a valve gave way, forcing it all up and out thought toilets over a wide area.
Unqualified Quality straight from China.
How the hell do shorted electronics lead to an explosion? A short circuit would cause the electronics to heat up and potentially melt or burn things, but I can't think of a design that would lead to such a catastrophic failure. I mean, you wouldn't expect containers of compressed gas in it, or anything capable of generating and withstanding internal pressures of the magnitude necessary to create an explosion. It would need to be simultaneously over-engineered and under-engineered.
...what the fuck?
Weapon of (m)Ass Destruction
New mass destruction weapons...
Toilets?
Yet another attempt to copy Japanese ingenuity falling flat on its face. Must everything in China be dangerous?
@aarond12
Why is your bathroom so cold?
I knew it! China's gundam ripoff is a nuke in plain sight!
08:49 Anon im glad you liked it.
I'm sure it's some government ploy to poison and blow up their citizens to control the population -_-.
Whoever made those toilets must be an ass raping maniac...
Maybe China's true mission is to kill it's own people through the products they sell?
It's part of the new military weapons under development by the Chinese. First they equip as many places as they can with the toilet-mines, then they blow all of them at once for massive chaos. Fear the toilet, bushes are safer.
“Is there anything in China which doesn’t explode?”
Yes, chinese missiles probably won't explode. ^^
Short circuits cause explosions now?
Get read for large orange Gundam to explode
"Short circuits cause explosions now?"
Now? Are you new to the world? Short ciruits can cause anything to explode to some degree.
“Is there anything in China which doesn’t explode?”
that...is the question!
The REAL question is:
CHINA! - Will it Blend?!
Lots of things . But blinded japanese wannabes dont want to see .
What do the Japanese wanna be?
@ 12:18 = *huge sign*, leave it alone, leave it alone, it doesn't know any better...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadeOfExplodium
oh fuck, it's really happening
yeah... why do they have electric toilets?
Heater in a toilet. WHY? Oh my god, they are such pussies. We, in Russia here, have -30 in winter during the day, our regular room heating-bataries suck and just mildly warm, and we dont complain. Fucking pussies.
True slavik badassery !!! Not this pussies from the west .
I agree, you guys are fucking badass. I think I know why America hates you so much now. Envy.
In China, seats explode on you!
Just around the corner until exploding condoms come to order.
Next on the news: Elderly Chinese woman undergoing reconstructive surgery after toilet explodes.
Must have been a real pain in the ass...
The toilet must of been sick and tired of their shit.
I knew it was talking shit.
I bet it was truly full of it.
I think that's what they call a crapshoot...
“Is there anything in China which doesn’t explode?”
Yes. Non-chinese stuff.