# Bouncy ball stuck in toilet

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouncy-ball-stuck-in-toilet/470486>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 31, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouncy-ball-stuck-in-toilet/470486 "2008-10-31T19:56:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouncy-ball-stuck-in-toilet/470486/21 "2008-11-01T20:10:53Z")

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A strange and funny read. The sad part is that if you had only waited enough, it would have rotten and taken care of itself, without the plumber bills.

Which was going to be my official answer, much in line with enipla’s. A new toilet might have been cheaper than paying a plumber to sit around trying to dislodge toys from a toilet in the garden.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouncy-ball-stuck-in-toilet/470486/22 "2008-11-01T20:24:48Z")

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> [@ButterflyandBumblebee](#):
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> After using some vegetable oil, a rubber hose and a unwound wire hanger (sounds downright erotic, yeah?) we got the lodged object out of the toilet.
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> The October surprise? It was not a bouncy ball. It was an apple.
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> An apple.
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> Well, at least we do not need a new toilet.

Surprise? That’s such an anticlimax. Why couldn’t it have turned out to be _not a bouncy ball, but a shrunken human head_, or something like that?

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouncy-ball-stuck-in-toilet/470486/23 "2008-11-01T20:44:32Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Surprise? That’s such an anticlimax. Why couldn’t it have turned out to be _not a bouncy ball, but a shrunken human head_, or something like that?

You can make a shrunken head out of an [apple](http://www.hauntedbay.com/entertaining/decorating/appleheads.shtml).

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouncy-ball-stuck-in-toilet/470486/24 "2008-11-02T04:00:44Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Surprise? That’s such an anticlimax. Why couldn’t it have turned out to be _not a bouncy ball, but a shrunken human head_, or something like that?

Just be glad it wasn’t [one of these](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90mhappyfunball.phtml)

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