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Fish Crazy
If you do flush your fish make sure they go down all the way.
Here's a reason not to flush:
After college, I lived in a two family house with a couple of roommates. A bunch of friends kind of cycled through the house and one of the previous housemates had set up a fishtank. However, he left and didn't take the tank with him. The tank contained a fairly large Jack Dempsey, about 7 inches long and an even larger Tinfoil Barb, probably about 10 inches long and 6 inches thick. None of us in the house knew much about fish at the time so we just kept feeding the fish and occaisionally changed the water. Although the Tinfoil Barb was large, eventually the Dempsey started picking on it. It was sad but inevitably the Dempsey killed the Barb. Not knowing what else to do we flushed the fish down the toilet.
Unbeknowst to me, the barb was actually too big to fit down the pipe. I flushed the toilet, it seemed to go down but it actually clogged the pipe and toilet kept running. I walked away not knowing that the toilet was starting to overflow.
About five minutes later I hear the neighbor downstairs start to complain "Hey! where's this water coming from?" He ran upstairs and asked if we were running water. At first we said no because we were just sitting in the living room watching TV. Then it dawned on my that it might be the toilet. We ran into the bathroom and stopped the toilet from running.
The neighbor then complained that water was dripping down into his daughter's room. He took me down there to see it and she was dilligently trying to move or cover her TV, stereo and other belongings so that the dripping water would not damage her things. However, the water was too much. All of a sudden the entire ceiling collapsed flooding her room with toilet water and wet plaster. It was a complete disaster!
The landlord sent a plumber the next day to snake out the toilet but we never admitted to flushing the fish down the pipe. Instead we blamed the flood on the poor flooring and bad caulk job around the toilet, which was indeed the case. While the landlord suspected we flushed something down the toilet, the plumber never recovered the body so he didn't have a case.
The moral of the story is never flush a fish without measuring first!
Here's a reason not to flush:
After college, I lived in a two family house with a couple of roommates. A bunch of friends kind of cycled through the house and one of the previous housemates had set up a fishtank. However, he left and didn't take the tank with him. The tank contained a fairly large Jack Dempsey, about 7 inches long and an even larger Tinfoil Barb, probably about 10 inches long and 6 inches thick. None of us in the house knew much about fish at the time so we just kept feeding the fish and occaisionally changed the water. Although the Tinfoil Barb was large, eventually the Dempsey started picking on it. It was sad but inevitably the Dempsey killed the Barb. Not knowing what else to do we flushed the fish down the toilet.
Unbeknowst to me, the barb was actually too big to fit down the pipe. I flushed the toilet, it seemed to go down but it actually clogged the pipe and toilet kept running. I walked away not knowing that the toilet was starting to overflow.
About five minutes later I hear the neighbor downstairs start to complain "Hey! where's this water coming from?" He ran upstairs and asked if we were running water. At first we said no because we were just sitting in the living room watching TV. Then it dawned on my that it might be the toilet. We ran into the bathroom and stopped the toilet from running.
The neighbor then complained that water was dripping down into his daughter's room. He took me down there to see it and she was dilligently trying to move or cover her TV, stereo and other belongings so that the dripping water would not damage her things. However, the water was too much. All of a sudden the entire ceiling collapsed flooding her room with toilet water and wet plaster. It was a complete disaster!
The landlord sent a plumber the next day to snake out the toilet but we never admitted to flushing the fish down the pipe. Instead we blamed the flood on the poor flooring and bad caulk job around the toilet, which was indeed the case. While the landlord suspected we flushed something down the toilet, the plumber never recovered the body so he didn't have a case.
The moral of the story is never flush a fish without measuring first!
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