Toilet Explodes, Covers Man’s Bathroom In Feces ‘From Floor To Ceiling’ [Pic]


If a toilet explodes, you hope that it’s because some kids have it out in a field and are using it to test homemade explosives. You don’t want it to happen in your house because then you have to deal with Beaconsfield resident Robert Pentney’s problem.

Pentney awoke on the morning of October 6 to a wretched smell. Intent on locating the source, he didn’t have to look far. It was waiting on him in his bathroom.

“It was a disaster,” Pentney said in comments to CBC Montreal. “It looked like someone had exploded a bomb in the toilet… The place was covered from ceiling to floor with sewage — that’s feces, you name it. Whatever you find in a city sewer, it came through my powder room and into the hallway of our home. The smell was absolutely horrific.”

Pentney instantly believed that the explosion had something to do with the men working on the city’s sewer system nearby. The homeowner rushed out of his home and told them to stop.

He then convinced one of them to come look at his bathroom.

“He said he had never seen anything like this before. He told me at that point that they had blown air through the system at a very high pressure to the point where they had to turn it down,” Pentney explained.

After a month of repairs, Pentney’s bathroom is still receiving repairs from the incident.

“Because of a special bylaw protecting the City of Beaconsfield from being pursued for work done by sub-contractors,” the news site reports, “Pentney’s insurance company is filing his claim directly with that company.”

“The City of Beaconsfield has assumed no responsibility for this,” Pentney said, adding that he thought there was a potential link between the backup in his toilet and recently reported pollution in the area.

The news site reports that water tests carried out in October revealed a nearby creek “was at 4,500 units of fecal coliform per 100 milliliters, adding that a “fecal coliform 1000 units per 100 milliliters is considered polluted.”

“It might be possible that it has something to do with the work being done. The question is whether there’s any damage to the sewer system. When sewers are being cleaned under high pressure, if the integrity of the structure isn’t there, it could easily end up in the water,” Pentney said.

What do you think, readers? If a toilet explodes as the result of sub-contract work on a city project, should the government be at least partially responsible?

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