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"I lost everything," said Colon

By SamDamnit
Created Mar 2 2006 - 1:40pm
That has to be the funniest quote that I have read all year.

"I lost everything," said Colon.

Despite how it sounds, Tony Burbeck of Charlotte's WCNC was not interviewing his own body part. He was interviewing Marylin Colon -- whose toilet exploded in her house [1], causing great devastation.

"We heard a thump," Marilyn told WCNC. Once she got to the bathroom, she had a sight to behold. "You can see where the pressure from the water lifted the toilet bowl," she explained. She also described the smell: "You couldn't breathe, your eyes would tear."

"Feces, urine, oil... it went all through the house." Turns out a sewer line had backed up, causing water pressure to build and lift the Colon family's toilet bowl straight up. This is all that remains:

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Ms. Colon contacted the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities -- yep, you guessed it, CMUD -- to have them clean up the mess. They claimed no legal responsibility, but offered to do the clean up anyway. Their insurance company sent a clean-up crew and a restoration company.

However, Ms. Colon says they have not cleaned the air ducts or floorboards. She refuses to sign a contract authorizing the installation of a new valve that is supposed to prevent another explosion -- she and her landlord believe that doing so would get the CMUD off the hook, even though keeping the pipes clean is CMUD's responsibility.

CMUD contends that they are not at fault, blaming instead a neighbor for pouring grease down the drain.

If that's the case, it seems to me that CMUD should get the neighbors to pay for the extra clean-up. However this pans out, it would be a grave injustice for them to stick Colon with the bill for this cleansing.

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Source URL:
http://www.poopreport.com/BMnewswire/colon_lost_everything.html

Links:
[1] http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/022306ccklrWCNC-jmn-sewage.58d1c1dc.html
[2] http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/022306ccklrWCNC-jmn-sewage.58d1c1dc.html
[3] http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/022306ccklrWCNC-jmn-sewage.58d1c1dc.html