We just covered this story, yesterday. Now, another Japanese toilet manufacturer is in trouble with crapper combustion.
Japan’s second-biggest toilet maker INAX Corp. has joined porcelain powerhouse Toto with tales of smoking toilets and burning bidets. INAX said it had not made public seven cases of malfunctioning “washlets” — a combination toilet and bidet common in Japanese homes — that smoked or caught fire from 1991 to 2005.
The company said it had reported the incidents to the appropriate government ministry and no one was injured.
INAX’s announcement followed an apology Monday from Toto Ltd., which revealed that 26 malfunctioning washlets had emitted smoke and another three had caught fire.
gives a whole new meaning to the term “fire shits”
One word: Wasabi
How is the guy who blew the lid off this story doing?
Great! A follow-up for the Mythbusters on the exploding toilet myth.
J/P=?
This is what happens when you use technology just because you can. Toilets have been working fine with no explosions for some time.
The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. — Scotty.
The only thing missing in that graphic is a crescent moon cut-out.
Ahh, the Japanese “fecal fixation”
Wow! That was one powerful burrito!
All that burning shit has to be causing Global Warming (TM)
The Japs are out of their minds with little concern for safety. Gotta love ’em.
I’ve traveled extensively in Asia and the Middle East and limitedly in Europe and Latin America — in every country I’ve been in, the toilets were treated as a dirty, horrid places… often no water or paper. The BEST ones were worse than the average gas station in America.
… except Japan. They are far cleaner and better equipped than in the US. I THINK it’s because the Japanese have a fairly practical and (importantly) non-taboo of the human body. They accept that people defecate — so why not make it as clean and pleasurable as possible?
So, they spend a fair amount of engineering effort on it because people will buy those kind of products… as compared to the rest of the world where they won’t even spring for TP.
Talking about Explosive decontamination…..
Any Wind BURN with that one??
Too much wasabi.