Our latest file graces us with "INCIDENT 0101051979" and a drawing of a toilet with gas coming out of it.

Ruby: "Right, looking here we have incident 0101051979 up next. The one with the toilet belching chlorine gas."

The image on the file depicts a man in a grey shirt slumped face down on the ground. The pale yellow-green colour of chlorine gas hangs around him.

Shannon: "Chlorine was famously used by the Germans as a chemical weapon in the First World War, but it can sneak up on you even in peacetime…"

Zoom in.

We open to the man from the file staring happily at the camera.

Date of Incident: 1 May, 1979

Location of Incident: Roger's RV Park, Aberdeen, South Dakota

Ruby: (Narrating) "Chuck here had, like, a simple dream."

Another shot shows a woman with blonde hair, who is also smiling. She blows a kiss to the camera.

Ruby: (Narrating) "With Roxanne, he scored the love of his life."

The camera turns around to show off what Chuck is so happy about.

Ruby: (Narrating) "Then he struck silver, with a 1952 Royal Spartanette trailer home."

Chuck: "Perfect."

The next shot shows Chuck cleaning off the handle to the door of his new home.

Ruby: (Narrating) "But before he went mobile, he had to make his loveshack shine."

Chuck: "Baby, we are great together. Here we go!"

He pulls himself up through the door and enters the RV. We now see a montage of shots showing Chuck cleaning down every surface of the RV.

Ruby: (Narrating) "It's a dirty job but, like, not for Chuck. All he had to do was think of motoring down the highway with Roxanne by his side, and he was the happiest camper in a camper."

The montage finishes with Chuck hanging up a decorative plate that reads "GOD BLESS Our Trailer Home".

Chuck: "Perfect. Just one last thing."

Chuck turns around and makes his way to the back of the trailer. The next shot shows him attempting to use a plunger to unclog the toilet, without much success.

Ruby: (Narrating) "...And it wasn't pretty."

Chuck groans as he continues pumping the plunger in the toilet.

Chuck: "Come on…"

Ruby: (Narrating) "It seems Chuck's new home was, like, carrying a heavy load. Or loads."

Chuck continues mumbling and cursing to himself as he is no closer to unclogging the toilet. He holds back the urge to vomit. The scene cuts away to one of Shannon's CGI, showing all sorts of waste being flushed down the toilet and into the RV's septic tank, which is all but full.

Ruby: (Narrating) "Twenty-seven or so years' worth of corn dogs and pork rinds, and untold gallons of cheap beer, had solidified into the mother of all log jams."

Chuck is growing increasingly frustrated as he continues pumping the plunger.

Chuck: "This is not working…"

Chuck stops pumping the plunger and removes it. He opens a nearby cabinet and retrieves a large bottle of bleach.

Ruby: (Narrating) "Chemical warfare was the only answer."

Chuck screws off the lid of the bottle and sets it aside, before pouring a copious amount of the liquid bleach down the toilet's bowl.

Ruby: (Narrating) "Chuck poured 3.8 litres' worth of bleach down the toilet, and waited."

We see Chuck staring down the toilet, bowl, as if awaiting something.

Ruby: (Narrating) "From the darkness below, came a response."

Suddenly the toilet belches forth a greenish-yellow gas. As the cloud envelops Chuck he screams and waves his hands in a frantic attempt to disperse it. Eventually still screaming he stumbles out of the toilet.

Ruby: (Narrating) "Shannon, you said you'd handle the chemistry knowledge here, right?"

Cut over to Ruby in the office, a clipboard in her hands.

Shannon: "Indeed. Now if you're pouring bleach into a septic tank that's been sitting around a while, you're probably pouring it into a solution that has acidified over time."

She brings up a new CGI so we can see the reactions involved. We see bleach molecules fall into the sludge and react with the molecules already there, liberating chlorine gas in the process.

Shannon: "Once the highly alkaline bleach reacted with the sewage, it generated an explosion of chlorine gas, which found its way back up the toilet to Chuck."

Back in the RV Chuck's screams fade away as he collapses to his knees, and then to the floor.

Ruby: (Narrating) "Overcome by, like, lung-searing chlorine fumes, Chuck went from road-worthy… to road-kill."

WAY TO DIE #230

TRAILER TRASHED

Return to the Sharuby couple in their office.

Ruby: "You know, I inhaled a whiff of pure chlorine once during one of my chemistry courses in college. The sensation was a raw, burning agony, like someone was painting a blowtorch at my sinuses."

Shannon: "Really makes it sound awful when you put it like that. It's my turn to narrate next."

Ruby nods, closing the file and marking it before wheeling over to get the next one.