Starter’s Toilets Apparently Defective

I have never gotten stuck in a public toilet bowl. I have, however, had to reach into one when my cell phone fell out of my shirt pocket, plopped into the water and sat, helpless at the bottom of a frequently used bar bowl. I had no choice but to react and grab it before it was destroyed (it wasn’t.) I showered non-stop for about a week.

A New Jersey woman, on the other hand, spent much more time in a bar toilet bowl than my hand.

Kathleen Hewko of Delran Township had hip surgery prior to the Nov. 19, 2006 incident and was re-injured when the seat cracked in half at Starters Pub on Route 378, ”violently” dropping her into the bowl, according to the lawsuit, filed last month in U.S. District Court in Allentown.

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The suit says Hewko, her husband, John, and son, Colin, were dining at the restaurant around 2 p.m. when Hewko went to the ladies’ room and ended up in the ceramic bowl. She says the plunge permanently injured her lower back, hip and thigh. It’s unclear exactly how Hewko got out of the toilet.

The lawsuit claims the restaurant knew there was a problem with the toilet seats and that another toilet seat had broken there earlier that week.

Hewko is seeking more than $150,000 from both Starters and the Kohler Company for pain and suffering, mental anguish and other damages. She’s also seeking attorney’s fees. Source

This lady had to be pretty handicapped and I REALLY want to know how she got out of that toilet. No fully functioning human being can get trapped in a toilet bowl, your butt isn’t going to go down that far in the first place and there are a shitload (ha!) of objects around you (toilet paper dispenser, handle, etc.) to get you out of there.

Man, you really have to stop for a minute and imagine this in your mind though, poor lady. And, of course, she needs $150,000 to quell the pain and suffering. Whatever, for $150,000 she can laugh whenever anyone makes fun of her for falling into a toilet and not being able to get out.