Passenger injured at Chinese airport after toilet he was squatting on collapses
Man hurt waiting to catch plane and had to summon help with his mobile phone
PUBLISHED : Friday, 17 April, 2015, 12:04pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 22 April, 2015, 8:22am
Stephen Chen
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The smashed toilet at Hefei airport. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A passenger was injured at an airport in China after the toilet he was squatting on, with his feet on the bowl, collapsed underneath him and its water cistern crashed to the floor, according to a newspaper report.
The man was badly cut on the buttocks and had to call his travelling companions on his mobile phone to summon help, the Anhui Business Daily reported.
He was waiting to board a plane at Hefei airport in eastern China to fly to Kunming on Thursday, according to the report.
He was bleeding badly when his companions found him, the airport authorities were quoted as saying, and needed medical treatment.
He originally told his friends that he was squatting on the toilet with his feet on the bowl’s rim and that the toilet had tipped over, the airport said.
He later changed his story and said he had been sitting on it when it collapsed and complained about the construction quality of the toilet.
The airport authorities said they hoped travellers would avoid uncivilised behaviour in public areas.
“A toilet bowl is meant to sit on, not stand on,” officials at the airport were quoted as saying.
Media in China have run numerous stories in recent months about the “uncivilised behaviour” of some Chinese tourists, now the world’s biggest spenders on international travel.
They include a passenger who opened an airliner’s emergency door on the runway at Nanjing airport in February as it prepared to take off.
The injured passenger at Hefei airport suffered no long-term ill effects.
He was able to get his plane on time.
