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Pundit drops phone in toilet, rescues device with basmati rice

Betsy Rothstein Gossip blogger
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MSNBC Political Contributor Jimmy Williams is home in South Carolina for the holidays. While stopping at the pharmacy for a Z-Pack (he’s got a terrible cold) he used the restroom. While finishing up his business, he plunked his cell phone into the toilet.

Thankfully it was mid-flush, so the phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, survived. So did Williams with the aide of a lot of hand sanitizer.

Williams gives us a play by play: “I finish my ‘business,’ turn to flush and it literally fell into the toilet as it was filling back up w water – screaming occurred – I scared the  hell out of the poor fella in the stall next to me. Needless to say, I bought hand sanitizer straight away. Alas, the glass is always half full: it could’ve fallen in before I flushed. Oh, and the email I was sending successfully made it to its recipient before all hell broke loose.”

Thank God for brown rice. The political commentator explained on Twitter and Facebook that the phone survived due to a trick involving rice: “I’m pleased to report that the organic aromatic brown basmati rice is a GREAT dropped-in-the-toilet-phone-fixer!!”