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Tinder date that ended in poo throwing and fire brigade rescue goes viral
The story of a Tinder date that started in a Nando’s and ended with a woman being pried off of a window after she got stuck trying to grab her poo has gone viral.
University of Bristol postgraduate Liam Smyth launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for his broken window after the unfortunate incident, which in less than 24 hours has raised more than £1,500.
His story has since been shared across the world from the New York Post to the Irish News. On Wednesday morning, it remained the most read story on the BBC News website.
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“I recently took a girl I met on tinder to Nandos,” sociology student Liam wrote. “We had a lovely evening, and enjoyed each others company very much. After our meal, we repaired back to my house for a bottle of wine and a scientology documentary.
Liam Smyth’s account of his Tinder date has been shared across the world – photo courtesy of BBC News
“About an hour in to Louis Theroux and chill, my date got up to use the toilet. She returned with a panicked look in her eye, and told me she had something to tell me.
“‘I went for a poo in your toilet,’ she told me ‘and it would not flush. I don’t know why I did this, but I panicked,’ she continued. ‘I reached into the toilet bowl, wrapped it in tissue paper, and threw it out of the window.’
“I was understandably concerned, and told her we would go outside, bag up the offending poo in the garden, bin it, and pretend the whole sorry affair had never happened. Unfortunately, owing to a design quirk of my house, the toilet window does not in fact open to the garden, but instead into a narrow gap of about a foot and a half, separated from the outside world by another (non-opening) double glazed window. It was into this twilight zone that my date had thrown her poo.”
Liam went upstairs to find a hammer and chisel to smash open the window, but his date had other ideas.
“Being an amateur gymnast, she was convinced that she could reach into the window and pull the poo out, using the tried and tested ‘inside-out bag-as-glove’ technique,” Liam continued.
“Unfortunately she couldn’t reach. She climbed further in and had the same problem. Eventually I agreed to give her a boost up and into the window. She climbed in head first after her own turd, reached deeper into the window, bagged it up, and passed it out, over the top and back into the toilet from whence it came. She called out to me to help her climb out from the window, I grabbed her waist and I pulled. But she was stuck. Stuck fast. Try as we might, we could not remove her from the window. She was stuck fast, upside down in the gap.
The stuck Tinder date
“Unfortunately for my date, at this stage I could see only one way out of our predicament. She had been upside down in the window for around 15 minutes at this point, and I was starting to grow concerned for her health. I called the fire brigade.
“Bristol’s finest were on scene sirens blaring in a matter of minutes. Once they had composed themselves after surveying the scene in front of them, they set to work removing my date from the window using all of their special firemen hammers and tools. It took them about 15 minutes.”
The rescue
Liam was quoted £300 to repair the window (“as a postgraduate student, that is a significant chunk of my monthly budget, in fact, that is my monthly budget”) so he turned to crowdfunding and his story has since been shared across the world.
With the money raised almost six times Liam’s initial target of £200, he promises to donate the rest to Toilet Twinning, a charity building and maintaining flushing toilets in the developing world; and to the Fire Fighters Charity, supporting firefighters who are injured, ill or in need of psychological support.
So will Liam see his date again? “We did go and meet for a drink to discuss setting up the crowdfunder,” he told the Bristol Post.
“She’s a lovely girl. I’m not sure what’s going to happen. I’m really busy with my dissertation at the moment but I’d certainly be open to seeing her again.”
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