The real pain of dropping a phone in the toilet bowl

A Bangladeshi man had to endure almost four hours of pain after his left hand got stuck in a toilet bowl while trying to retrieve his mobile phone which dropped inside, reported Harian Metro.

The incident happened at a school in Bandar Baru Klang on Tuesday.

The 40-year-old man was carrying out wiring upgrade for the school’s Internet system.

Sungai Pinang district Fire and Rescue Department chief Zaidi Atan said eight officers took about three and a half hours to rescue him.

“Due to space constraints, we had to use special tools to break the concrete floor and cut through the pipe from below the floor,” he said.

Zaidi said the victim was not cooperative and kept shouting in pain before a medical team was called.

“He had to be sedated to ensure that we could do our job properly,” he said, adding that the victim was sent to Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah for further treatment.

“He was not injured but was traumatised,” he added.

> The Malay daily also reported that actress and television presenter Cheryl Samad (pic) is “paranoid” about hiring maids.

Cheryl, 37, said due to reports of bad experience of people with maids, she is sceptical about allowing others to take care of her two daughters, Stella, three, and nine-month-old Kate.

She had to temporarily halt her film career to take care of her daughters.

She said she has no intention of hiring any helper and would just ask her mother to take care of her daughters.

Cheryl married Ng Ping Ho on May 1, 2011.

> A woman had to push her wheelchair-bound husband for almost two kilometres to her relative’s house in the storm after their house was flooded, reported Berita Harian.

Mad Isa Pin, 72, and wife, Bunga Osman, 60, from Kampung Kilang, Beruas, were among the 123 flood victims who got displaced due to the floods.

Mad Isa said when the water level rose, there was no one else at home to help. He couldn’t walk due to his knee ailment.

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