A Bad Day For A Motorcycle Owner?
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The Story of the Motorcycle Owner and the Exploding Toilet-Fiction!

Summary of the eRumor:  
This is a humorous story about a bad day in the life of a motorcycle owner who decided to work on his bike in the living room. 

After performing maintenance on his motorcycle a man decided to start the vehicle without realizing the gear was engaged.  This resulted in a disaster.  Some versions of this rumor say he crashed through a plate glass window and ended up injured in the patio.  Other versions say that the out of control bike with him cling to the handlebars crashed though a wall breaking many bones in his body.   The paramedics arrived to the scene of the accident and transported the injured owner for treatment at the local hospital. His wife ended up having to clean up the mess in the living room and dumped left over gasoline, oil and fluids in the toilet of the nearby restroom.

Later the husband, after returning home from the hospital, went to the bathroom and tossed a lit cigarette into the bowl that resulted in an explosion.   The same paramedics arrived at the scene and after hearing what happened, as they carried their patient back to the hospital, they began laughing so hard they accidently dropped him causing further injury.
  

The Truth:  
This story is a spin off from an urban legend mentioned in the book "The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings" by Jan Harold Brunvand.

The original story is about a husband who dropped a lighted cigarette in a toilet unaware that his wife had emptied a can of hair spray in the bowl in an attempt to kill a spider.

This new version about the motorcycle owner was recently added to the act of folk singer / story teller Arlo Guthrie.  Guthrie uses the story to introduce his "Motorcycle Song" that he wrote and recorded in 1967.

 


Video of Arlo Guthrie sharing about the motorcycle found on YouTube

updated 6/14/11

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

My ex-husband and his annoying habit of bringing greasy old carburetors and things into the house to work on. So last week when my friend called me to tell me this story, my first response was "Where does this guy live?"

Now reassured that i was not related to him by marriage, this is too hilarious not to share.

The way my friend told it, this guy pushed his motorcycle from the patio into the living room, where he began to clean the engine with some rags and a bowl of gasoline. When he finished he sat on the motorcycle and decided to start it to make sure everything was still ok. Unfortunately the bike started in gear and crashed through the glass patio door with him still clinging to the handlebars

His wife had been working in the kitchen. She came running at the noise and found him crumpled on the patio badly cut from the shards of broken glass. She called 911 and the paramedics transported the guy to the emergency room

So far the story is humorous----in what you get for being a big lout for bringing your motorcycle into the house, but here is where i really split a gut.

Later that afternoon after many stitches, had pulled her husband back together, the wife brought him home and put him to bed. she cleaned up the mess in the living room and dumped the bowel of gasoline in the toilet

Shortly thereafter her husband woke up, lit a cigarette, and went into the bathroom. he sat down and tossed the cigarette into the toilet which promptly exploded because his wife had not flushed the gas away. The explosion blew the man through the bathroom.

The wife heard the explosion and her husbands screams. she ran into the hall and found him lying on the floor with his trousers blown away and burns on his buttocks. The wife again ran to the phone and called the ambulance.

The same two paramedics were dispatched to the scene. They loaded the husband on the stretcher and became carrying him to the street.

One of them asked the wife how the injury had occurred. When she told them, they began laughing so hard that they dropped the stretcher and broke the guy's collarbone.

Talk about instant karma.



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