{"id":3835,"date":"2011-09-19T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:55","slug":"cell-phone-flush-turns-into-sticky-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-flush-turns-into-sticky-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Flush Turns into Sticky Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Toilet-Stuck-Arm.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1871\" title=\"Toilet - Stuck - Arm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Toilet-Stuck-Arm.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1871 lazyload\" title=\"Toilet - Stuck - Arm\" 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pipes.&nbsp; Looking into the drain, Hruza could still not see the cell phone but since the pipe turns just below the floor, Hruza decided to take a risk.&nbsp; \u201cI was hoping to get lucky, basically,\u201d she notes.&nbsp; Hruza reached in up to and then past her elbow, but could still not locate the phone \u2013 and then found she couldn\u2019t pull her arm back out again.&nbsp; With no one else in the house, bar her cat, which \u201ccame in and looked at me like I was an idiot\u201d, Hruza managed to kick open her bathroom cabinet and knock some supplies down on the ground, including a tube of antiseptic ointment that had a texture similar to Vaseline and was able to use it to free herself.&nbsp; The next day, she found her cell phone \u2013 in the toilet\u2019s P-trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accidentally flushed old cell phone turned into a sticky situation for a 45-year-old woman from Lincoln in the United States a week 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