- (Reuters) -- Phone users have been known to complain
about poor service, but one New York man's mobile literary went down the
toilet.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- "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.
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- He said that because of the design of the train toilet,
the mobile probably ended up in a chemical holding tank.
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- 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.
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- The track was closed and thousands of commuters were
delayed during the evening rush hour.
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- © 2003 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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- http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s980002.htm
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