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Woman suffers burn injuries after toilet explodes

The explosion’s believed to have been caused by a build-up of methane.

A SLOVENIAN WOMAN needed hospital treatment for burn injuries today after an explosion in a farm toilet believed to have been caused by a build-up of methane, police in Austria said.

“When the woman turned on the light there was a sudden explosion, leaving the woman with burn injuries on both arms, hands and her head,” a statement from Steiermark state police in southern Austria said.

They said the cause was thought to be a leak of methane from a nearby septic tank that collected inside the toilet cubicle.

A spark from the electrical circuit then caused the gas to explode.

© AFP, 2015

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    Mute Paul Corrigan
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    Sep 17th 2013, 2:58 PM

    Next we’ll be charging iphones from our holes

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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:06 PM

    No, that would be assdroid phones

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    Sep 17th 2013, 2:54 PM

    Forget about electric cars, shit powered cars are the future!

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    Sep 17th 2013, 4:27 PM

    we could run the country from the dail

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    Mute Gavin Scott
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    Sep 17th 2013, 10:30 PM

    And it would not even require extraction of bathroom sewage…an extraction fan in the Dail would suffice!

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    Mute Simon Jester
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    Sep 18th 2013, 12:17 AM

    Indeed unlimited power FROM our politicans.Ireland becomes a world power in the energy market! Who’d have thunk it??

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    Mute Martin Hamilton
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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:57 PM

    They should call it a shattery

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    Sep 17th 2013, 2:48 PM

    That’s a shit idea. :-)

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    Sep 17th 2013, 2:54 PM

    Less of that dirty talk

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    Sep 17th 2013, 4:14 PM

    Pfffft….. Doc got a delorean running on rubbish back in the 80s. Mr Fusion anyone?

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    Mute Stephen
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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:06 PM

    Talk about taking the p!ss .

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    Mute Cian O Donnell
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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:21 PM

    please insert really “clever/witty/topical” “sure hook the battery up to the dail and it will charge forever with the amount of shit they spew” comment…

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    Sep 17th 2013, 4:19 PM

    Hurrah!!
    A Dail reference, ironically giving out about Dail references.
    Well done you.

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    Mute Cian O Donnell
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    Sep 17th 2013, 5:27 PM

    you are aware of the concepts of sarcasm and satire?

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    Mute Little Jim
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    Sep 18th 2013, 9:33 AM

    Yep.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 2:53 PM

    No though the irish government will find some way of taxing us all for using it

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    Sep 17th 2013, 2:56 PM

    How did you mix up the word “doubt” with “though”??

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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:02 PM

    Because they think they are gonna get lots of likes and feel popular for a few minutes

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    Mute Patrick McEneaney
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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:02 PM

    Mark by word Jason if this come into mass production in the future they’ll find some way of taxing it like they do with everything else

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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:07 PM

    God i hope so. I love a new tax me. Tax, tax, tax. Addicted to paying taxes. Love it. Bring it on.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:18 PM

    Ah sure they’ll probably tax you for commenting on The Journal next.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:22 PM

    You mark by word… I though they will tax it!

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    Mute Patrick McEneaney
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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:30 PM

    Well didn’t FF suggest putting a tax on text messages earlier in the summer. A tax on emails and comments on forums like this is hardly out if the question.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:32 PM

    Aaaaaaaand its a troll! Please no more feeding.

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    Mute Maria Pearse
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    Sep 17th 2013, 4:10 PM

    Errr… Of course it will be taxed. It’s called VAT.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 4:23 PM

    There’s enough crap on this thread to charge a battery.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 10:13 PM

    Thats funny the police in my town found a guy with two electrodes hanging out of his hole ……think he was charged !

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    Sep 17th 2013, 6:08 PM

    I like ice cream

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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:56 PM

    What a shit battery

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    Sep 17th 2013, 3:41 PM

    Ideal if you live in a caravan.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 7:22 PM

    Ever Ready at your convenience!

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    Sep 17th 2013, 9:49 PM

    Lol! Excellent. Comment of the week, I think.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 10:16 PM

    They should hook it up to government buildings coming up to the budget there will be some shit spilling out of there

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    Sep 17th 2013, 8:57 PM

    The Central Bank of Ireland coils use this device.

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    Sep 17th 2013, 7:40 PM

    “US SCIENTISTS MAY have found a new way to produce clean energy by way of dirty water, according to a new study.
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    WTF?? What a moron can write two contradicting sentences one beside the other and claim the glory for the US scientists??? Frekin information manipulation!

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