Beaconsfield - the big question answered
You know what the big question was for my kids during the Beaconsfield mine rescue? Where did they go to the toilet? (Actually this question also came up in conversation with work colleagues during the week.)
Well, now we have the answer from one of the rescuers. According to him, the 2 miners used one of their helmets to collect water dripping off the rocks, the other for a toilet. Now for the important answer to the big question:
“Todd didn’t shit for 14 days, he reckons,” Burns said. “Brant had two.”
As for peeing, don’t know the answer, but I suspect it was a nice warm feeling when they did one.
I can actually relate to how Todd Russell apparently handled crapping. We used to go camping regularly to the same place. For the first few years there were no toilets, so if you needed to go, it was off into the bush to find a rock or tree to shit behind, and then bury it. Not appealing at all …. expecially as my mates were inclined to sneak up with a camera, flash and there you were on film (although more often than not, we just let the flash off just to worry the shitter, hopefully into shitting on their boots, or their pants around their ankles). So unless you were desperate to go, most of us managed to hang on from Friday night to Sunday afternoon, when you could go at a servo or something on the way home. That all changed when they put a proper toilet block in … nice toilets, relax, back on regular schedule just like at home.
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