October 31, 2003 12:04 PM

Tales From The Commuter Commode
Posted by at 12:04 PM

Yesterday a Bronx commuter dropped his cellphone into a toilet on an outbound Metro-North Railroad train, and got his arm stuck -- wrist to elbow -- when he tried fishing it out. It took firefighters three sets of power tools, including the jaws of life, to cut through the toilet and free the man. The coup de grace? The cellphone was never found. The moral of this story? Unless it's your wedding ring that you dropped in there, Luke, let the cellphone go...

"It cost our customers a long, convoluted commute, and it cost this railroad many thousands of dollars," said Dan Brucker, a spokesman for Metro-North.