Celestial blue ice wreaks havoc on elderly couple's home

Celestial blue ice wreaks havoc on elderly couple's home

Posted 10.23.2006 by PooperGal

It happens. You're sitting in your living room watching a movie on the DVD player when suddenly a meteoric, blue, poop-filled iceberg crashes through your roof and destroys your bed. At least, it happened to William and Evelyn McElroy this week in Chino, California.

"It was a huge crash. It shook the whole building but we thought it was a car," William McElroy said. After investigating outside but finding no sign of a UFO, falling safe, or misplaced grand piano, the couple went back to their movie. It wasn't until they headed to bed that they discovered that a huge chunk of blue ice -- the kind that sometimes hurtles to Earth from leaky airplane lavatories -- was occupying it. Besides destroying the bed, the unwelcome bearer of frozen feces and urine had left a two-foot hole in the roof of the house.

Relieved that they hadn't been in bed at the time, as they would have been if they hadn't been watching the movie, the McElroys were counting their blessings after Wednesday's wild blue mishap from the wild blue yonder. "I think we had somebody extra looking over us," Evelyn McElroy said.

Amen, Mrs. McElroy. But let's hope that next time that "somebody extra" looks over you, He warns you first that He's about to flush.

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Double Flush (604) -- 10.23.2006

So now we really know what happens when you flush an airplane toilet!

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I'm so good at clogging up toilets, I can make mine back up when there's nothing in it.

The Shit Volcano (3740) -- 10.24.2006

I'm guessing the movie they might have been watching. Perhaps "Airplane"? Did it ask them not to call it Shirley?

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I was a category five! Category five, I tell you! Get it right or I'll be back to PROVE IT!!!!- Katrina

Anomalous Coward (690) -- 10.24.2006

Think if they had been in bed - what a horrible way to go. Death by shitsicle.

Nine Inch Log (361) -- 10.24.2006

"Holy frozen blue shit, Batman. We almost got plastered by poo."

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SamDamnit (1192) -- 10.24.2006

I thought that blue ice was an urban legend, but a quick google search does not seeem to back that up. Perhaps it is the idea that airplanes purposely eject it, that is an urban legend. This seems to be a case of it being leaked from the plane. I wonder if it was Dave Matthew's plane.
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PooperGal (527) -- 10.24.2006

Based on what's been written about the phenomenon, the upshot is that the airplanes aren't ejecting the blue goo; it sometimes leaks from the holding tank, then freezes to the underside of the plane at high altitudes. There it sits, a crust of frozen Blue Crapparita mix, until the plane descends to a warmer altitude and the ice loosens up and falls off. Quite a load can collect over a long flight.

My guess is the plane whose payload hit the McElroy's house was a cross-continental or overseas flight about to land at LAX.

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PooperGal
"Searching for the Origin of the Feces"

daphne (3667) -- 10.24.2006

I wonder if there was any corn in it.

And no, I have no idea why that came to my mind.

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PooperGal (527) -- 10.24.2006

Uh...
Well, there are the planes that "seed" clouds to make them produce rain. Maybe you kind of were thinking along that line. Corn is a seed, right?

:)

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PooperGal
"Searching for the Origin of the Feces"

Fart Poopie (1257) -- 10.24.2006

So, here are a few questions.

Who pays for the damages?

Is there a clause somewhere in homeowner's insurance policies that addresses this issue?

Did they figure out what airline accidentally dropped the offending frozen poo water?

Just how often does this happen?

Have there been any deaths as a result of this type of accident?

PooperGal (527) -- 10.24.2006

If they couldn't find the guilty airplane, I think homeowner's insurance would have to cover it, since it's not an "act of nature," really. Maybe a "call of Nature" was the root of the problem, but the problem was manmade.

But, the guilty airline probably could be pinpointed by insurance investigators by reviewing all flights over the area at that time, and finding the one with the course that would have allowed a load of waste to direct hit the house at the given time.

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PooperGal
"Searching for the Origin of the Feces"

Fart Poopie (1257) -- 10.24.2006

This is why I wish scientists would get off their lazy butts and come up with some cool force field technology that would protect our roofs from meteors, hail, neighborhood frisbees and frozen airplane poop.

Just what are you guys getting paid for, huh?! Priorities, people. Get some. ;-)

Paper Moon (14) -- 10.29.2006

On a somewhat-related subject, there's this chorus that is sung to the tune of "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder" concerning train travel:

"When the train is at the station
When the train is at the station
When the train is at the station
When the train is at the station
Do not flush."

As for that plane, could it have been Air Force One?

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"The job's not finished until the paperwork is done." Author Unknown

curious george (not verified) -- 08.05.2007

My daughter just found a blue gelationous blob about 3 inches in diameter on the lawn furniture under a group of pine trees in her back yard. It has a white center that looks like it has been folded in on itself. What do you think? Is this airline poop???

Mr. Hanky's cousin Chucky (not verified) -- 04.03.2008

I really want to know which movie saved their lives?