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On superbowl Sunday some friends were over and the kids were playing downstairs. All of a sudden they started yelling that my 3 year old had plugged the toilet. I assumed it was with toilet paper, so after the initial problem was over I let it go until a better day.
Well after messing with it a little here and there and getting nowhere I finally brought the shops Rigid See Snake flexible camera. I cut apart the vent line and pushed the camera down until I could see where it tee'd together, and where the sewer snake quit going. Suprise it looked like there was a marble in there. Upon closer inspection the marble was about the size of the 3" drain pipe!
It turns out the new super flush toilet that I had just installed will flush three 2 1/2" playschool balls down at once! So after many hours with a shop vac and 50' of hose I have a hopefully cleared up sewer pipe. That sucked, literally. Now to decide if I should put the toilet down again as I was planning to move it and put a shower on that spot.
 
Many years back one of my kids managed to flush a half full bottle of kids blow bubbles. It was stuck it the down side of the tolet itself and when flushed, would suck that bottle down just enough to make it to slow for the big stuff. Couldn't make it out the hole in the bottom. Then float back to the top. How they ever got it past the first bend, much less the u-turn at the top, I'll never know...
 
Donno, but grandson installed a 1 1/2" dia by 4" long Christmas candle down ours. Nothing would dislodge it. Finally had to replace toilet. Only found candle when son broke up old one with a 12ga slug. Had lodged in the curved trap unreachable from top or bottom.
 
At the factory where I worked there were a lot of toilets. Ball point pens would get in the toilets and make it around the first bend and get caught. The maintenance guys would have to pull the stool to get the pen out from the bottom. Evidently the passageway was long enough that they still had a problem getting the pen out. Because of the frequency of this happening, one guy actually made a tool so that he could reach in there clamp it on, tighten it up and pull out the pen.

The funniest part about this was after they cleaned up the toilet, they would set it on a skid that was on a hand truck. Then one guy would sit on the toilet and another guy would pull the hand truck with a scooter all the way around the plant. It sure brought out the smiles. Now a days they would probably be fired.
 
Our renters were flushing Q tips. They were criss crossed over the smallest part of the pipe at the bottom of the toilet. Water would go through, nothing else.
 
Kids did that to me years ago. Flushed a stub pencil that caught at the top of the trap. Longer wouldn't have gone, shorter would have gon thru. After lots of cleaning and cusssing, finally pulled the stool and was going to take a sledge to it. I found the problem, reinstalled the stool, adjusted the attitiudes of three boys and solved the problem!
 
When I was at college we had a beer party at our apartment. the next day the toilet wouldn't go down. A bar of soap was misssing from the shower but we didn't think nothing of it. Fearing a maintenance fee we pulled the stool ourselves. sure enough there was the soap. Had we waited it would've eventually went. but, we had to go too.
 
A couple plugged stories. Neighbor has a pre school, she is always calling me for problems. Husband died. One of the kids flushed a cell phone I used a ship vacuum, and pulled it out. At work the main toilet line plugged big time stopping all toilets from flushing. I missed out on this job, but when the snake was pulled out it has some ones shorts attached to the cutter. Stan
 
Crem, for some reason that made me think of this funny picture I got in an Email. Laugh everytime I see it.
humor-plumber-toilet-truck.jpg
 
My son worked in a local building supply/hardware store for a couple of years. One day someone noticed a little boy with his pants around his ankles, standing on tiptoes and barely able to clear the rim of a floor display toilet.

When you gotta go, you gotta go!

Paul
 
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