Restroom Art Gallery Opens in Ohio Village

Call it Chagall in the stall, Picasso in the powder room.

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It may get a panning from the critics, but this exhibition of luxury loos is certainly giving the public something to go on. Artists were asked to turn the humble lavatory into works of art for the show in Florence, Italy.

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Town hall chiefs have agreed to pay compensation to a jogger who was locked in a freezing public lavatory for 17 hours. An attendant failed to check if there was anyone inside the building before locking the door.

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Rockhampton's Ben Kele and his band of students hope no-one notices their performance during the Woodford Folk Festival. They are directing a massive conga line of human waste, as the amount of effluent through the sewerage system suddenly peaks at one megalitre a day.

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A FUMING boss allegedly SHOT one of his employees after he discovered they had used his private LOO. Police said the raging manager pulled out his gun and blasted the unlucky worker in the leg after hearing of his cheeky toilet trip.

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A 3m snake believed to have been living in toilet pipes in a block of flats for three months has been caught. The boa constrictor, named Keith, is thought to have been abandoned by a resident who was evicted after owing £5,500 in rent to his landlord.

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Even the best of us need to use the loo mid-film. "When we return to our seats, we pray the answer to 'What did I miss?' isn't 'Darth Vader is really Luke's father' or 'the girlfriend is really a guy,'" writes Jake Coyle, of the Canadian Press.

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A garden centre has made sure visitors to its toilets are guaranteed a fragrant welcome - by having urinals shaped as flowers.

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A week-old puppy was trapped in a waste pipe for almost four hours after he was flushed down the lavatory.

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A RAPIST struck after dropping on his terrified teenage victim from the CEILING of a nightclub toilet.

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A baseball fan sparked a major rescue operation after getting her arm stuck down a toilet.

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A minister is so appalled by the state of station toilets that he's appointing two Loo Tsars.

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The trials and tribulations of searching for the nearest public toilet have been eliminated in Japan – with the launch of mobile phone software guiding users to the nearest lavatories.

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"I began to realize that I was living in a completely different culture. There is the illusion that we speak the same language, but we really don't."

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Excerpt: A FETISH-OBSESSED security guard - who put on a rubber diving suit and mask while working a night-shift - died during a bizarre sex ritual in toilets at his office.

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IT'S embarrassing but, yes, some of us need to flush twice when we go to the toilet. However, regularly 'making sure' has meant one 57-year-old woman faces eviction after a neighbour complained about the noise.

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When you've got to go.... but sometimes you don't want to ask. This collection of loo door signs from around the world illustrates the global language of our basic instincts...

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Another peril can be added to the hazards of the innocent-looking computer keyboard.

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It was a beautifully simple plan - creep into an abandoned house next to a bank after dark, spend the night knocking a hole through the wall into the vault, and sneak away with bagloads of cash before dawn.

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35-year-old Ness City woman became stuck on her boyfriend's toilet after sitting on it for two years.

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There was nobody to wonder what the matter could be when David Leggat got stuck in the lavatory - for four days. The 55-year-old bachelor was trapped in the freezing cold "gents" at his bowling club with nothing but tap water to survive on after a door jammed behind him.

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Where did the words "loo" and "flip-flop" originate? How did the name Gordon Bennett come to be used as an expression of exasperation. And who came up with the term "wazzock"?

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Visitors to the Sony stand at the Games Convention, Europe's biggest video and computer games fair in Leipzig, Germany, were given novel seats to sit on.

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Budding entrepreneur hits it big with his toilet that has a built-in aquarium.

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Mobile mad Brits are in for a shock thanks to new research published today which reveals that there's actually more filth on our phones than the average loo.

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