Thursday, February 28, 2008

Filthy Chutes

India's rail system is shitty...literally.

And in related news, a newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself. Um, I think you were straining too hard if you pinched a baby loaf.

As described by the AP, most toilets on Indian trains are filthy chutes emptying directly onto the tracks. Coincidentally, the same has been said of their birth canals.

"My delivery was so sudden," said the Bhuri Kalbi, the mother of the infant, born two months prematurely. "I did not even realize that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet." Give me a break! You don't know the difference between taking a shit and passing a small melon through your crotch? Tell me again why we're outsourcing our business there?

The 33 year old fainted on the toilet seat after the birth for a few minutes before waking up and alerting her family. Railway staff at a nearby station were alerted and soon found the newborn girl lying on pebbles by the track. She is now in intensive care because of her premature birth, and clearly not from falling out of a moving train onto the tracks from a toilet.

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