A man brought a French TGV high speed train to a halt when his hand got stuck down a toilet.
The hapless passenger, traveling Sunday from Paris to the southern town of Toulouse dropped his wallet down the toilet, bent to scoop it out and trapped his hand in the bowl.He sounded the alarm and the train stopped at St-Pierre-des-Corps, near the central town of Tours.
Firemen with metal cutters extricated him, and the toilet bowl, from the train. French television showed him lying on the station platform with the toilet wrapped around his arm.
Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey, because the original train's safety mechanism jammed.
The TGV acronym stands for Train de Grande Vitesse, or Very Fast Train, a kind of an express train that hits speeds of more than 180 mph.