Last spring I managed to throw my keys in the toilet.

Sunday, as I was leaving the shower, get what i saw in the toilet! I reached down in there (clean water - well for a toilet anyway) and grabbed the ignition key, house key and fob on a very rusty key chain.

Now, once your over the grossness factor - read on.

Yes there was a battery in it, and yes there was some obvious corrosion. the fob has been taken completely apart & cleaned and i'm going to let it dry for a week or so and replace the battery.

What do you guys think the odds are it will work again?

 

i'm betting that the fob won't work. key might not work as well.

 

Thats right out the most hideous thing I have ever heard. Despite the water being clean at the time you stuck your hand in, do you know how much shit(literally) passed over that key in the time since last spring. You better be careful sticking that thing into your ignition, it might have a mind of its own to crawl out of the ignition, kick you in the nuts and walk away. That is going to be one fowl smelling key.

 

wow submerged for near a year in poop haha, well if you clean up the circuit board with some rubbing alcohol and there's no corrosion on the circuit pathways theres a good chance it will work. My roomate during his B-day party lost his keys too, well we found them 2 days later at the bottom of the plastic tub we had a keg in with snow. after it dried out the fob worked fine.

 

this is just strange.

 

so is your avatar.

 

But I'm confused how did it comeback after so long? Where has it been?
You have other problems if it didn't suck it down & stay down.

 

What else floats up in your toilet

 

its true, yes.

 

probably....nope, definately the most nasty thing i've heard in a while...hope you had those big black rubber gloves b/c your hand's gonna fall off if you didnt

 

Well, that's just disgusting. I would have thrown it out.

 

Maybe he actually swallowed his keys and then after an hour of staining his keys appeared in the bottom of the toilet?

 

i'd have to say no, but i wouldn't have gone through the trouble of cleaning it, etc. I think i would've just bought a new one I definitely wouldn't want that anywhere near my other keys.

 

Well I had a viper FOB work after it spent the night in a pot of icky water sitting in the sink. After letting it dry out for 3 days in the sun it worked fine. Even on the same battery.
So it's possible.

 

Hey everyone,

I replaced the key and FOB almost immediately afterward and i have a back up set.

I am fully aware how disgusting this is and contemplated going in after them. The curiosity of whether or not they'll work after a year of sitting in a toilet is worth the 3 minutes it took to clean them after giving them a bleach bath.

 

if that was me i would be so fcked i like to bite on my keys so i pray that the old owner did not drop the keys in the toilet. bleach bath is the way to go

 

nasty.... i wouldve thrown everything out or just have left it in there lol

 

this one's not as bad as the last one he had.

no te enojes, coño.

 

he changed it since i made that post. so actually i think we are talking about the same one.

 

That's fucked up, but funny at the same time. I'm wondering how they resurfaced in your turlet.

 

Sweet. Hope they work.

 

Ewwwww. Wuhduhfuck?! Why not use gloves next time there is something interesting in the toilet.

 

I would have used a coat hanger and fished them out, if I decided to do that in the first place. Would bleach have been a good idea in cleaning it though? outside of disinfecting it of course.

 

 

Thats so weird. Your toilet is magic

 

Well, i put the fob back together and nothing.
I'm going to go swap the batteries and see what happens!


Fob is dead

Key still works!

 

I have not laughed this much at a thread to date... Wow its a Magic John...

 

this is quite possibly one of the funniest things i have heard in a long time... ive got 100 bucks says it will work just because it would be so fucking cool if it did.

 

my guess is that it will still work. now if you poo pressed any of the buttons then i kinda doubt it. as long as it wasnt trying to send and electricity through the circuit it should still work. and like what was mentioned earlyer with the corrosion.

and i would not have even tried the battery after that long.

 

You just lost your $100. Give it to me. haha

 

I bet he hits "unlock" on the key fob and the toilet flushes instead.......

 

i need an extra fob. you think u can ask ur toilet to give me one?

 

rats!

 

I think you give me the $100 to replace my key & fob!

 

Is this is what has become of this board...?!?!

 

Not really.

 

LOL thats hilarious. have you tried smelling the key, i'd be surprised if it doesn't smell like complete @$$.