Woman sues after toilet exploded in her face

zainab quadri

March 15, 2016 10:25 AM

A Baltimore woman suing city officials and contractors alleges she was injured physically and emotionally when her toilet exploded in a geyser of feces. UPI News reported.

Woman sues after toilet exploded in her face

Angela Wright was sitting on the toilet in her Baltimore home when an explosive backup of sewage exploded in her face.

"I was literally covered in feces. Are you kidding me who wants that?" Wright told WBFF-TV.

Wright alleges the backup was caused by contractor Spinello using high-pressure hoses to clean out the sewer lines in her neighborhood.

Louis Glick, Wright's lawyer, said his client suffered physical and emotional injuries from the incident.

"She was blown off that toilet that day," Glick said.

"She had to clean it up herself," he added. "Can you imagine doing that?"

He estimated the damage to the bathroom, which has yet to be repaired, at $14,000. (

Some few years back, a woman who used a public toilet at the General Services Administration regional office building in Washington, D.C., was hospitalized in 2011 with non-life-threatening injuries sustained when the commode exploded.

Officials blamed the toilet explosion on "high air pressure" and posted memos warning employees not to flush toilets in the building until the problem was corrected.