Exploding Toilet Causes Stinky Situation
The Colons ended up with some pretty explosive toilet bowl problems.
After a sewer line blew up inside the family’s Charlotte, N.C., home — damaging almost everything inside — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities (CMUD) said it’s not responsible for mopping up the mess, according to WCNC-TV News.
The utility and local mom Marilyn Colon are having a spat over who should clean up the smelly mess.
Colon’s neighbors poured grease down the drain, which built up over time and led to the bathroom blast, CMUD said.
“We heard a thump,” Colon told WCNC-TV.
Her toilet then suddenly blew up. “Feces, urine, oil … it went all through the house,” Colon told WCNC-TV. “You can see where the pressure from the water lifted the toilet bowl,” Colon explained to the network.
She described the horrible odor caused by the bidet blast. “You couldn’t breathe, your eyes would tear,” she told WCNC-TV, adding that the explosion destroyed almost everything in her house.
“I lost everything,” Colon said.
WCNC-TV posted pics of the exploding toilet on their Web site.
The smelly situation turned into a row when Colon and her landlord phoned CMUD for aid.
The utility said it doesn’t legally have to offer cleaning help but they do anyway. CMUD called their insurance adjustor and a cleaning company arrived and a restoration company promised to fix the floors. Colon said she and her landlord won’t sign on to a contract CMUD gave them to install a valve to protect again a second restroom eruption.
Colon and her 6-year-old daughter stayed at a neighbor’s house trying to plan where to go next as crews swabbed the line last Monday.
“My home is contaminated,” she told WCNC-TV.
