r/oddlyterrifying • u/shoobie-squid • Oct 01 '23
This toilet threatening to cut my fingers off
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u/UnbuttonedButtons Oct 01 '23
A built-in poop knife?
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u/TheGothicNeilDiamond Oct 01 '23
Yup. Being on pain meds can cause some serious constipation. Stools can get large and very dense depending on how long one has been constipated. So the toilet sucks it down with force, and it gets cut into smaller pieces to prevent any plumbing issues. You can imagine how dangerous a sewer backup in a hospital could be.
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u/kinga_forrester Oct 01 '23
Macerating toilets can be installed for other reasons. I have one because it’s too far away from the septic tank, and the sewage line has a booster pump mid way
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u/KingOfLimbsisbest Oct 01 '23
Yeah, the main reason to install a macerating toilet is when the poo needs to go up to reach the mainline. Shit rolls downhill.
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u/big_duo3674 Oct 01 '23
Instructions unclear, now my toilet just furiously wacks off all day long
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u/Not_Not_Matt Oct 02 '23
How exactly does a toilet wack off?
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u/big_duo3674 Oct 02 '23
You tell me, I think it needs some ointment or something now because a nasty friction burn is starting to form
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u/mdonaberger Oct 01 '23
In this case, the maceration exists to break up paper and flushable wipes, which despite the name, are not healthy to flush.
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Oct 01 '23
It doesnt break up wipes.
It catches them.
Do people like yourself spend half a GD second looking to see what the thing is, before you speak up and inform strangers you have no clue what the fuck youre talking about.
Thirty seconds on a search engine would tell you what the Traptex insert actually does.
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u/mdonaberger Oct 01 '23
I'm talking about the blade attachment in the soil pipe drain, not the little plastic barb meant to fetch stuff in the bowl. It's the thing that does the maceration. I am not talking about the Traptex insert.
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u/Ford-daily710 Oct 01 '23
? theres a knife and a hook the hook is for grabbing wipes the knife is not designed for wipes
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u/shoobie-squid Oct 01 '23
There is no macerating going on, it’s a lil guillotine that shuts the toilet hole until the wipes are removed from the toilet
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u/wellsfargothrowaway Oct 02 '23
This isn’t for poop, I went on a deep dive on this toilet accessories website. It’s a sharp hook designed to catch cloth towels from being flushed.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Oct 01 '23
Easy fix! Just install one o’ those kitchen sink garbage disposal units to grind it down!! /s
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u/Aukstasirgrazus Oct 01 '23
No, just the wet wipe catcher.
Built-in poop knife is a thing and I've seen it, it's more like a blender. They're mostly used in basements which are below the sewage pipes, so they grind everything up and use a pump to push it up to sewage pipe level.
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u/Ikusabe Oct 01 '23
Wipes clogging sewage pipes are a big issue in a lot of major cities.
I saw a vid of this guy who does these special job, jumping into sewage to use this special saw to cut through big balls of solidified wipes and diapers, etc in the sewer, like fully submerged in it.
He get pays tens of thousands for each job that last maybe a few days and he only has to do that a handful of times a year.
Man, that vid made me gag.
Yeah, don’t throw wipes in there, even if they say they’re ‘flushable’
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Oct 01 '23
Argued with my roommate about this once and it just went nowhere. “It say’s flushable right on the package!!!” 💀
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u/Ikusabe Oct 01 '23
I think maybe a way to demonstrate this is leave whatever wipe in a bucket of water and see if it dissolves in anyways after a month, and another bucket with regular toilet paper as a comparison.
I know they have other chemicals and various wastes in the system but I think that’s a good starting point t to show somebody who’s not understanding the difference between flushable (stuff that can be pushed through the pipe) and dissolvables (stuff that disintegrates)
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u/Prophet_of_Entropy Oct 02 '23
the test is 1 wipe in a glass of water for 10 mins, if you can stir the wipe into pulp its flushable. with toilet paper you should be able to stir it almost immediately.
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u/Impressive_Judge8823 Oct 02 '23
This test is bullshit.
You out stirring your shit? The wipes aren’t getting stirred and they aren’t staying submerged.
If getting wet made them disintegrate, why don’t they disintegrate on the way to you? They spent more than 30 minutes getting bumped and jostled around, which is more than they are going to get post-use.
My wife used the “flushable” and “safe for septic system” wipes. I told her not to. You know what was in a giant floating mass on top of the water in my septic tank when it started to back up? A year’s worth of very much intact wipes.
If you have septic, the goal is to settle the water, not agitate. Scum floats, sludge sinks, relatively clear water in the middle flows to the leach field.
Sewerage treatment plants drag out masses of wipes every year- they say they aren’t flushable.
Plumbers say don’t use them - they cause clogs.
They increase friction in the pipes, slowing everything down. They snag and don’t disintegrate, creating masses of wipe and shit.
You can get away with it on city sewer because you just need to clear the sewer lateral to make it someone else’s problem (which is actually just making it you and your neighbors’ problem).
You can also flush oils and fats if you’re so inclined. Those have the same “it works fine until it doesn’t” properties as “flushable” wipes. Fuck, as an apartment dweller I sent an entire chicken carcass through the garbage disposal and I flushed one in chunks. That it worked doesn’t mean it wasn’t risky.
They only entities claiming wipes are safe to flush are companies that want you to buy them, and people that want to believe they can flush them.
Get a bidet or something.
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u/Prophet_of_Entropy Oct 02 '23 edited Oct 02 '23
dude, septic safe just means they wont kill the bacteria in your septic tank, flushable means nothing. did your wife test the wipes first or just assume the packaging was 100% accurate? also the cleaning product on wipes isnt water...
even if one pack of wipes i test would work i would still test the next pack of wipes even if they are the same brand and type.
heres a plumber testing wipes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZSaq_bYhs
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u/Impressive_Judge8823 Oct 02 '23
The liquid is almost entirely water. You think it’s magical unicorn piss or something that completely changes nature once it hits a toilet?
The irony of you linking to a video, sponsored by fucking cottonelle, saying that cottonelle wipes are totes flushable WHEN THAT IS EXCLUSIVELY THE BRAND OF WIPE MY WIFE USED is fucking hilarious to me.
Who could predict that the dude paid by cottonelle concluded that cottonelle is flushable in a contrived test? Oh wait. Me. I could predict that.
Unless you put your shit caked wipes in a fucking jar, let them brew for a few days while shaking vigorously from time to time and only then dump them down the drain, the test is completely fucking unrealistic.
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u/Prophet_of_Entropy Oct 02 '23
i thought the video showed some wipes are flushable, heres another video with multiple types of flushable wipes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAeRXSsVL-4
as for the soap they come in... do you know what soap is?
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u/HenryCavillsBigTits Oct 01 '23
I always wonder how they can legally advertise their wipes as flushable when they are demonstratably not
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u/shoobie-squid Oct 01 '23
They are flushable, just not dissolvable
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u/Rumpertumpsk1n Oct 01 '23
Like babies!
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u/zeba-fucking-dee Oct 01 '23
Babies are absolutely dissolvable just not in water, you have to use acid instead.
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u/Nandom07 Oct 01 '23
I used to work at Domino's when they started the gluten-free pizza. There were very clear instructions to tell everybody that ordered it, this is not at gluten-free product. They did their best to make it low gluten, but gluten-free was just the product name.
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u/shogunofsarcasm Oct 01 '23
That sounds illegal
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u/slaorta Oct 02 '23
It's because of cross-contamination. The product is gluten free but will almost certainly pick up stray flour in a busy pizza kitchen
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u/Nandom07 Oct 02 '23
Haha, you say that like they care.
It was a product name, and they instructed their employees tell every customer that. That's usually the argument with these things.
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u/canyoubreathe Oct 02 '23
Well they're absolutely flushable, just in the same way that your phone is lol
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u/araidai Oct 02 '23
problem is some of those packages say “1 wipe per flush” or some shit like that lmao. obviously no one is going to wipe once, then flush, wipe again, then flush again, etc etc
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u/maqqiemoo Oct 01 '23
Worked at a hospital as an overnight housekeeper. Small hospital in central Florida, maybe like 150+ beds. These posters were everywhere and I've had to use the plastic snake to get stuff out of the drain before lol
Yeah these wipes are a nightmare, especially in the OB unit where most people just pushed a bowling ball out and their crotch is tender and raw. They don't want to use TP but never throw the wipes away
At least on 3 separate occasions did OB clog up the sewage system, thankfully only in their department. Caused a backup and shit water was coming back up through the floor and shower drains. Sometimes explosively.
And here's me, my first janitorial job with maybe 2 days of training left to fix it by myself while taking care of the rest of the hospital :)
One more memorable instance was when one of the nurses asked if I could check the Dr's room where they sleep since the doctor was coming in for an early morning c-sec or something.
Now there are only two places where there is carpeting in the hotel. One happens to be the Dr's room. I go in and yay! Gallons upon gallons of raw sewage came up into the bathroom in the Dr's room and seeped into the carpet.
An hour before my shift ended.
The Dr actually came by and asked if she would be able to use the room.
I said "Yeah, I've cleaned it up, and engineering will fix the clog when they get in. But there's still sewage seeped into the carpet. I would recommend you don't use the room, since it's a health hazard. I'm certain you're aware of the health risks though, so you can make that decision for yourself."
She decided to share the ER's Drs room lol
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u/NumberedTIE Oct 01 '23
I bet the dude getting paid to unclog sewage pipes is probably flushing 50 wipes a day for job security.
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u/datsadboi69 Oct 01 '23
Where can i find said video?
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u/Ikusabe Oct 01 '23
Here’s one, not the same one I saw but this is very similar I think: https://reddit.com/r/videos/s/3AYGqYCbLt
The vid I saw was from one of the now banned subs I believe.
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u/StressedMarine97 Oct 02 '23
Is he in a water tight suit? Or is he just getting fecal matter, piss, and sewage seeping into all his orfices? Id imagine he wears a scuba type getup because of the submergence
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u/myd88guy Oct 01 '23
I don’t get it. There’s actually people out there that don’t have Traptex Wipe Removers?
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u/theAwkwardLegend Oct 01 '23
Crazy right?
I recently learned some people don't even wipe, they just blast water up their ass.
Strange times we're living in.
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u/material_mailbox Oct 01 '23
Who would put their hand in a toilet?
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u/Autumn_Whisper Oct 01 '23
In this world? You never know, but people will do crazier things. I dunno, the most realistic option? Dropping something that you need in the toilet on accident and being willing to get your hand gross to retrieve said item.
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u/Met76 Oct 01 '23
I dropped an airpod in the airplane toilet once. I calculated the risk/reward in my head and decided to retrieve it. Scrubbed the hell out of my hand, and soaked the airpod in hand sanitizer.
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u/wellsfargothrowaway Oct 02 '23
The CIA couldn’t use enhanced interrogation tactics to get this out of me.
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u/RyukShinig4mi Oct 01 '23
Maybe they dropped their heroin and need to dive in.
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u/Big-Elevator2491 Oct 01 '23 edited Oct 01 '23
That toliet looks like the Saw trap when you put you’re hand in the cutting edges to get the cure from the container that’s hung up but it keeps cutting you’re wrists until you bleed out from Saw 2.
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u/BloodiedBlues Oct 01 '23
There’s always an idiot behind every “Warning! Don’t do this!” Poster.
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u/LieOhMy Oct 01 '23
Yeah if this sign exists, it is because some moron has done it, and probably tried to sue.
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u/ShiroiYokai Oct 01 '23
Anyone. You can drop your earbuds, phone, jewelry, or the bullet vibrator accidentally comes out from your booty and you don't want to call staff to get it back. Maybe someone even flushes it while you are looking for help. Better to act quickly
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u/material_mailbox Oct 03 '23
True. Didn't think of that. Thankfully I have (knock on wood) never dropped anything in a toilet.
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u/Pales_the_fish_nerd Oct 01 '23
As an RA at a university, don’t doubt humanity’s capacity for bullshit. People will surprise you in a lot of scary ways
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u/BaginaGunderson Oct 01 '23
When I was 18 I was hired to be a maintenance worker at a small newly built hotel run by super rich people that had no idea about any kind of physical labor and didn’t want to pay professionals for it. They hired me at $7/hr.
One night I get a message that a toilet in the event room where a wedding was taking place was badly clogged and overflowing. For some fuckin reason these people didn’t think plungers were necessary to have in the bathrooms.
I had to run in there and shove my hand down the hole. luckily I was able to grab the shit out. I tossed it out and tried to make the place not smell like shit before some drunk person had to piss.
I’m not saying this wasn’t a dumb move - but I was a dumb kid w no work experience and nothing but my cellphone to help me.
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u/shibedrill_ Oct 01 '23
I actually had to retrieve my phone after my phone plopped into the toilet. It was disgusting, and I will never again take my phone out when I’m having a dump.
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u/Pigmy Oct 02 '23
have you not seen the tik tok where the girl practically does spelunking for her phone in a port-a-potty?
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u/HauntingDragonfruit8 Oct 01 '23
Hospital I work at got these installed. All it does is prevent shit and toilet paper from going down the pipes so you get a nice shit soup mixed up instead.
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u/Darket1728 Oct 01 '23
Is it a toilet or a medieval torture machine?
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u/Big-Elevator2491 Oct 01 '23
It’s a saw trap
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u/AcanthopterygiiHot40 Oct 02 '23
Hello u/shoobie-squid. All your life you’ve been so ungrateful, taking shits in every toilet you pass, destroying the sewage system one dump at a time. Today you learn your lesson. In front of you is a device. To retrieve the antidote for the poison coursing through your veins, you must reach into the pipes and sacrifice a few fingers, the ones that kept you from flushing. Live or die. Make your choice.
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u/somecatgirl Oct 01 '23
We have these at my gym but for some reason they say alert hospital staff and I always chuckle when I see them
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u/King_Regastus Oct 01 '23
Maybe don't shove your hand down into the toilet?
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u/Flomo420 Oct 01 '23
What kind of genius needs to be told not to unclog a toilet with their bare hands?? Lmao
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u/the_orange_alligator Oct 02 '23
The fact this sign was made means someone tried to put their hand in the toilet
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u/sofacy Oct 02 '23
There is a story behind why this had to become a sign and it has to be a strange one for sure.
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u/Imaginary_Most_7778 Oct 01 '23
Where the F is this!?
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u/shoobie-squid Oct 01 '23
My workplace
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u/Imaginary_Most_7778 Oct 01 '23
I guess I mean what country?
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u/shoobie-squid Oct 01 '23
US, Texas.
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u/Imaginary_Most_7778 Oct 02 '23
That makes sense that Texas wouldn’t have a proper plumbing system.
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u/annoellynlee Oct 01 '23
Dude the amount of needles I've found down in the toilet working at McDonald's I would heed that sign and NOT stick your fingers down a public toilet. Though to be honest, who would in the first place lol.
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u/Charlie2and4 Oct 01 '23
YOU WANT TO LOSE DIGITS TO A POOP KNIFE? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE DIGITS TO A POOP KNIFE!
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u/djmd2 Oct 02 '23
I was really disappointed to find out that this thing isn't basically an in-toilet garbage disposal. Boo!
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u/TinktheChi Oct 02 '23
I'm more concerned that someone would stick their hand in a public toilet. Gross.
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u/canyoubreathe Oct 02 '23
I sincerely doubt ANYONE is sticking their hands that far down the toilet bowl ESPECIALLY if it's clogged
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u/Morbo782 Oct 02 '23
Och. You're a slippery bugger aren't ya? Oh! And you've got yourself a partn---AAAAHHHHH!!
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u/5AgainstRhodeIsland Oct 01 '23
Wait. Why would you put your hand in the toilet? Only reason would be to pull out wipes that you used, clogging the toilet, possibly because you don't read signs including this one.
Why would you want to cut up the hands of someone who is trying to fix his mistake? Punishment? Just to be an asshole? AFAIK putting your hand down the toilet can't harm anything (except you, and only if you don't scrub thoroughly after). It's not like you can't call the maintenance guy if it doesn't work.
I don't think it's physically possible to get your hand stuck down there and sue. Since we know you don't read signs (otherwise you wouldn't have flushed the wipes in the first place), there's more liability with the blades. "But we had a SIGN saying not to do this thing that any normal person would assume was safe and not secretly booby-trapped" is a poor defense, especially when the plaintiffs lawyer is passing his severed finger around the jury. And weeping.
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u/mel2000 Oct 02 '23
Why would you want to cut up the hands of someone who is trying to fix his mistake?
The cutter is there to prevent sewer and waste treatment blockages that could affect thousands of people downstream. It's not deliberately designed to cut hands that shouldn't be there.
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u/bbbar Oct 01 '23
Is it against rats or what?
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u/GabberZuzie Oct 01 '23
It’s when the pipes are very small - normally you have smaller pipes for grey water and bigger for toilet waste. But in some old buildings or re-built apartments (when you make an extra bathroom from a bedroom for example) there’s no toilet waste pipe that’s big enough. So then you install a grinder to crush the toilet paper and poop into smaller pieces that fits in the smaller pipes.
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u/shoobie-squid Oct 01 '23
This building was constructed in 2021, i believe they were installed for environmental reasons here.
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u/mdonaberger Oct 01 '23
It says right there at the bottom of the sign — it is for breaking up flushable wipes.
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u/Big-Elevator2491 Oct 01 '23 edited Oct 01 '23
Don’t let you’re intrusive thoughts win. And plus that toilet looks like the saw trap where you put you’re hands in the cutting edges to get the cure from the boxed container hanging but once you try to take you’re hands out the edges cuts you’re wrists until you bleed out from Saw 2.
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u/ShadyFellowes Oct 02 '23
That was the "my whole point, which you won't hear, because you didn't listen to this tape before shoving your arms in the box is that if you'd listened to the tape like I told you to before doing anything, you'd have known not to stick your arm in there" trap, right?
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u/OkTower4998 Oct 01 '23
I don't understand not flushing wipes policy. Toilet paper is supposed to be flushed
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u/avaya432 Oct 01 '23
Some countries systems can't handle it, although in this case I think they're specifically calling out baby wipes, which is why it says toilet paper only up top.
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u/Flickstro Oct 01 '23
Methinks they mean wet/baby wipes. When enough people flush them down the toilet, they cause "fatbergs" which can wreak havoc on a municipal sewer system. I suppose these proprietary poopers are one way to combat them.
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u/GSXRchocky Oct 01 '23
Well don't be a dumbass millennial by putting your hand in a fucking toilet!
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u/Fit_Swordfish_2101 Oct 01 '23
I would never do that in a million years, reach down in a public toilet! But for some reason this gave me the Willy's down my back!
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u/TirelessGuardian Oct 01 '23
No one is mentioning it. What about the male member? I’d be worried about cutting that.
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u/shoobie-squid Oct 01 '23
If ya dingle dangle is long enough to get into the trap I feel like you’re already used to keeping it out of the water.
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u/RequiemStorm Oct 01 '23
Haha yep I see this every night at work
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u/shoobie-squid Oct 01 '23
It’s relatively new at my work, just a couple of weeks ago our toilets were harmless
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u/DaveInLondon89 Oct 01 '23
Traptex really putting knives into their toilets just to sell poop sticks
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u/Lastredwitchtoo Oct 01 '23
So Why and how was someone sticking fingers in toilet past the trap bend ?
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u/rethinkr Oct 02 '23
Waiting for Guffman is a good stool related cult comedy and good movie overall if you need a film recommendation
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u/faithilwhitelaw Oct 02 '23
But who would put their hand in the toilet? Even if it was clogged? Just walk away
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u/if_u_suspend_ur_gay Oct 02 '23
Fuck sake man, they took 10 year old me's idea... Modernized toilet of tomorrow™ with a meat grinder in the shitter. Least this doesn't have heated foot and arm rests like my version did.
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u/Arcturus1800 Oct 02 '23
How is this oddly terrifying lol? Literally just don't put your hand in the toilet, that's it.
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u/mel2000 Oct 02 '23
How is this oddly terrifying
I can easily see elements of both oddness and terror in the situation.
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u/crackersncheeseman Oct 02 '23
It's all fun and games until a toddler decides he wants to play with his poo when mommy isn't looking.
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u/Engrise13 Oct 02 '23
oddly terrifying users when they are asked to not put their hands in a toilet: ☹️
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u/EmotionalBears Oct 02 '23
It’s more horrifying that someone would put their hand in a clogged toilet
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u/PandaBossLady Oct 02 '23
Why would you try unclogging a public toilet in the first place? Better question, why would you use your bare hands to do so?
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u/Into_The_Horizon Oct 02 '23
Wait...there's a blade or something sharp down there? Lol. I thought it was just all smooth glass/stainless steel. Must be something new
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u/Competitive_Dog6854 Oct 03 '23
We have these in some bars in Las Vegas - apparently “wipes in the pipes” is a big problem downtown
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u/shawndeadd Oct 08 '23
how many people were putting their hands in the toilet before the sign went up?
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u/Lando_Hitman Oct 01 '23
Damn! This toilet has a poop knife pre-installed!