Toilet Trouble
Jessie Wakelin was walking with her children in Bluff, New Zealand, when her 3-year-old son Zachery needed to go to the bathroom. He ran ahead of his mother into an Exeloo public toilet. Before Jessie could catch up, the door automatically closed and locked with Zachery inside. Then an electronic voice announced that a self-clean cycle was about to begin. For the next 10 minutes, he was doused with water and detergent as his mother and a crowd of about 20 people tried to get him out. Although he hit the emergency release button and Council building assets manager Paul Horner said there was a motion sensor inside, the door wouldn’t open until two cleaning cycles completed. Zachery said he felt frightened inside the “naughty” toilet. The city council has locked the toilet and asked the contractor to repair it. Meanwhile, Zachery is refusing to go to the restroom by himself. (MS/Southland Times) ...No wonder: the toilets are peeing on him!Original Publication Date: 18 March 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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