Discussion Main / TheCanKickedHim

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Redirect Farming, started by SeanMurrayI on Feb 25th 2011 at 5:31:10 PM

Real Life section removed. Even though there was no explaination given in the NRL page.

[[folder:Truth in Television]]

• King Edmund II died when an assassin hiding in his toilet stabbed him when he was sitting on it.
  • Or perhaps not: Edmund Ironside's death as mentioned above was merely a rumor; the timing of his death was rather suspicious, and he was only 27 when he died, but he was severely wounded in battle six weeks earlier and could have easily died of those wounds.
• Sadly Truth in Television: some people didn't get the memo that you shouldn't pee on bleach because it creates poisonous fumes. This has led to deaths due to some people using bleach to clean their toilet bowls.
  • Also, prior to public sanitation, many toilets were literally just a hole in the ground, and thus a careless step could cause someone to fall in and drown. In Japan, toilets weren't modernized until pretty much after WWII (and even then a lot of them kept the old-fashioned squatting style toilets), so many an Urban Legend sprung up around public restrooms.
• Black Widow bites have become less frequently fatal in the past century or so. The main reason for this is modern plumbing: people used to encounter them in the privy and get bitten in areas that are very tender and full of blood vessels; nowadays bites are more likely to be on the hands or feet, which are less blood-saturated and further from the heart.
• While killer mutant ooze ghoulies may not enter real-life homes via the toilet, rats can and do use this route.
  • So do cockroaches and, occasionally, snakes.
• A great deal of heart attack victims die on the toilet, mostly because lots of heart attacks come out as feeling like bowel movements if they're not chest-crushingly painful. Nursing homes and hospitals have a pull-cord at bathrooms for this reason.

So... are we including deaths in showers (Psycho, et al) under this category?

in the Watchmen movie, Rorschach gives old nemesis Big Figure a fatal swirly in a prison toilet, after having used the toilet in his cell to bash a mook's head thru ( then allowing the flood to electrocute the guy by shorting the frayed cord on his electric saw) ... of course, Rorscach lampshades that occasion after the fact ...