Someone ripped a door off in the ladies room

[Randy Stankey]

It's not just bars and show-biz. My mother used to work at Macy's before she retired. She told us that people used to go into the fitting rooms to do their business! Apparently, they were looking for the restroom but couldn't hold it so they found the closest place.

Probably a couple-three times per year, she'd come home saying that she found another jobbie in the fitting room!

[Ryan Gallagher]

This thread has literally gone down the toilet! LOL

I remember being amused by these the first time I saw them, but probably familiar to most europeans. This was in Vienna Austria in 2006 (not long before the Germany hosted World Cup). The ball is on a little hinged wire suspended from the top of the net.

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[Randy Stankey]

Goooooooooaaaaaal!

[Leo Enticknap]

Oh! And, get this!... Back in the days when Jimmy Carter was president and all the people in the US Embassy in Iran were held hostage, you could buy these vinyl stickers with Ayatollah Khomeini's picture on it. You stick it on the inside of the urinal and guys would piss on the Ayatollah.

The same principle is still in use. In the men's rooms at Amsterdam Airport, you'll see a picture of a fly in a random position on each urinal. Apparently it's a psychological trick to improve the aim of people using them.

In the aftermath of the Libyan Embassy siege in London (in which one of the "diplomats" shot and killed a young policewoman from a window), Colonel Gadaffy dartboards appeared in many of the city's pubs.

My mother used to work at Macy's before she retired. She told us that people used to go into the fitting rooms to do their business! Apparently, they were looking for the restroom but couldn't hold it so they found the closest place.

Positively well mannered compared to this...

Police called to Midway Airport after source says passenger defecated on plane

According to a statement from Southwest Airlines, flight 418 from Philadelphia to Chicago's Midway Airport was met by law enforcement and medical personnel who responded to "a situation involving a customer."

Police were called to meet a Southwest Airlines flight as it landed in Chicago after reports that a passenger on the flight took off her clothes and defecated on her seat, a source told NBC News.

According to a statement from Southwest Airlines, flight 418 from Philadelphia to Chicago's Midway Airport was met by law enforcement and medical personnel who responded to "a situation involving a customer."

A source with knowledge of the situation told NBC News the passenger had removed her clothing and defecated on the seat, forcing the plane to be taken out of service for cleaning.

"Our Teams are reaching out to those onboard to apologize for the situation and any delays to their travel plans," the airline said in a statement. "Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees, and we appreciate the professionalism of our flight crew."

The incident follows a series of flight-related troubles for airlines.

Most recently, a Southwest flight in Houston was evacuated due to an engine fire.

Southwest announced this month it will reduce its capacity later this year as it expects revenue to dip. The airline is also just one month away from shifting its long-held policies and charging passengers for checked baggage.

And I remember at Cinemacon one year encountering hundreds of people with not much in the way of clothes on all gathered in the corridor next to the exit to the swimming pool area. The reason was that someone, presumably after a beverage too many, had pooped in the pool, resulting in them having to evacuate the poolside area while they drained, cleaned, and refilled it.

[Randy Stankey]

They didn't have to drain the pool.

After high school, I used to work as a lifeguard on the beach. In order to get that job you have to have both, a Water Rescue certificate and a Water Safety Instructor certificate. (WSI) In order to get those certs, you have to spend so many hours working around pools. The "Olympic Size" pool you find at places like the YMCA. Yes, I have seen people (usually children) leave a jobbie in the pool. You know, like the movie "Caddyshack," except it wasn't a candy bar!

The way to deal with it is to, first, remove the offending matter, usually with a skimmer net. Then, you hyper-chlorinate the pool with about ten times the usual amount for twenty four hours. Next, the filter system gets back-flushed to waste which will serve to drain the pool down by a foot or two. Chlorinate again and let the whole system sit idle until the chlorine levels fall to normal limits. (Chlorine evaporates from water fairly quickly.). Fill the water back up to the usual level and restart the filter. There ain't no doo-doo bacteria that can live through that!

I worked at three different pools: My high school, where I got my Lifeguard certificate, the local YMCA, where I got my WSI and a local, community pool near where I live, now. I only saw poop in the pool one time, at the Y. At both the other pools, the water would take on a yellowish tinge after an entire weekend of "Youth Activities" swim sessions. (You can easily guess what kind of "activity" I'm talking about! )

The high school pool was usually closed on Sundays. When we closed up on Saturday afternoon, the maintenance guy would come around to hyperchlorinate and let the pool disinfect until Monday morning.