Outhouses cushion small plane crash in Wash state

A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets — and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt.

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Airline pay toilets? Ignore that beverage cart

When nature calls at 30,000 feet, is $1.40 a wee price to pay? Or could it force passengers without correct change into a whole new kind of holding pattern?

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Toilet-maker pledges to repair smoking bidets

A Japanese toilet-maker pledged Tuesday to repair nearly 82,000 electric bidets after several units overheated and emitted smoke.

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2012 Olympics rule: Toilets that don't face Mecca

Olympic organizers issued detailed design rules for the 2012 London games Wednesday, including a mandate that at least some toilets in the Olympic park do not face the holy Islamic city of Mecca.

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Seattle relieved to lose its high-tech toilets

City officials have finally gotten rid of five high-tech self-cleaning toilets that cost Seattle $5 million — but sold online for just $12,549.

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Seattle sells 5 of its troubled toilets on eBay

Seattle's five problem-plagued public toilets could be yours if you're flush.

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Senators pitch new approach to Pakistan aid

Sens. Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar said Tuesday they will push bipartisan legislation this year that would triple humanitarian spending in Pakistan but threaten to cut military aid unless Islamabad does more to fight terrorists.

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Another Olympic Problem — Squat Toilets

Among all the protests, pollution concerns and talk of boycotts surrounding the Beijing Olympics, a more basic problem has arisen for organizers: the toilets.

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Don't Sit on That Toilet!

An employee of an Auburn nursing home called firefighters for help on Tuesday because the toilets were exploding with steam. The fire department said there was a boiler malfunction at Regency Auburn Rehabilitation Center that caused a minor explosion.

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Toilet Cleaners Are 'Restroom Specialists'

Singapore, famous for its spotless streets, is stepping up its campaign against filth in the restroom with a training program to boost the status and skills of the city-state's toilet cleaners, a newspaper reported Thursday.

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GENEVA - PEOPLE held in jails and other detention centres around the world frequently have no access to clean toilets; a violation of their basic human rights, three United Nations investigators said on Wednesday.

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MUMBAI - NO ONE would ever call Radha Jagarya fortunate. The 45-year-old widow and her four children live on the pavement in an upmarket south Mumbai suburb, scraping a living by selling flowers to passing motorists.

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Excerpt: "" Now, after voting to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and expressing a willingness to build a compromise approach to clean energy legislation, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appears to be the new target of tea party activists.

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Before Jennifer Aniston made millions as an actress, she had a much less glamorous job. "I made my allowance as a kid cleaning toilets. I'm actually pretty good at it," Aniston, 40, tells Parade magazine.

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I clean strangers' toilets for money. I have two college degrees, and I sold a book to an overseas division of Random House. The money hasn't come rolling in (though I pray to Oprah on a regular basis), so I clean houses as a way to pay the bills between royalty checks.

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Toilets – we all use them but seldom like to talk about them. The flushing toilet was invented by Sir John Harrington in 1596 for Queen Elizabeth I. He was originally barred from the Royal Court for spreading smutty stories, but after his invention, he was allowed back.

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A SHOPPER was left stunned after her motor was crushed by a block of ICE as it stood in a supermarket car park. The football-sized chunk of frozen waste from a plane toilet wrote off the woman's Renault, leaving a 2ft dent.

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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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The Malmö police department will stop at no lengths to refrain from spending a penny, employees learned recently.

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I wonder how big of a toilet you would need to flush a dog?

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In its ceaseless battle to keep sewer pipes from clogging, this North Carolina city has identified several menaces over the years, including grease, cornstarch, packing peanuts and the modern scourge of garbage disposals.

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A MAN accused of murdering his de facto wife told a court she verbally abused him, controlled their finances and would not let him use their home 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 unusual urinals at a pub in Freiburg, south Germany, were put in by landlord Martin Hartmann. 'Most people see the funny side but we've had a few complaints from musicians,' he said

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AS the 'spend a penny' experts are sought to protect railway toilets, we reveal the loos we should treasure rather than wash our hands of.

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A pilot walked away unhurt after his plane dropped out of the sky - because its landing was cushioned when it fell on a group of portable toilets.

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A pilot was able to walk away after his small aeroplane crash landed on a cushioning group of portable lavatories.

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A US pilot was in luck when his falling aeroplane made a soft landing, thanks to a row of portable toilets. The Cessna 182 suffered apparent engine failure after taking off from Thun Field airfield south-east of Tacoma in Washington state.

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LOS ANGELES - It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it. The elixir is real. It has been approved by U.S. regulators. And it's starting to replace the toxic chemicals at home and on the job.

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A western Pennsylvania Amish farmer has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after refusing to bring a pair of outhouses into compliance with state sewage laws.

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As part of a winter marketing campaign by canned coffee brand Georgia Coffee Max, a number of toilets at ski resorts across Japan have been decorated with wrap-around murals depicting the view from the top of a ski jump.

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Excerpt: "There's poop everywhere! Y-u-c-k," says 6-year-old Jordan Lien as he and his family dine at the Modern Toilet, a popular Taiwanese restaurant chain that's expanding into China and other parts of Asia.

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Irish budget airline Ryanair has said it is considering charging passengers for using the toilet while flying. Chief executive Michael O'Leary told the BBC that the Dublin-based carrier was looking at maybe installing a "coin slot on the toilet door".

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"One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound (about $1.43) to spend a penny in future," O'Leary told the BBC while being asked about the car …

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