A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.

The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.

The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while firemen cut through the train’s pipework.

The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm. 

Things for which it is, and is not, worth it to reach into a train toilet (a partial list):

1. The Dowager’s diamond pendant: worth it
2. Mechanical pencil: not worth it
3. Map showing location of secret spy headquarters: worth it if you are a spy
4. Baby (cherished): worth it
5. Baby (colicky): not worth it
6. Baby’s first poopy: not worth it
7. Cell phone: worth it only if cell phone is constructed from Dowager’s diamond pendant
8. Travel copy of Da Vinci Code: not worth it, even if book is not in toilet at all but on the floor

Tags: technology, transportation, cell phones, baby's first poopy, train, toilet, books not worth the paper they're printed on, the dowager