toilet at the Glastonbury Festival on June 26, 2011. It is suspected he died of a heart attack. Aboard ships, the head (ship's toilet) and fittings associated with it are cited as one of the most common reasons for the sinking of tens of thousands of boats of all types and sizes. Heads typically have through-hull fittings located below the water line to draw flush water and eliminate waste. Boats are sunk when fittings fail or the toilet back siphons. Urban legends Urban legends have been reported regarding the dangers of using a toilet in a variety of situations. Several of them have been shown to be questionable. These include some cases of the presence of venomous spiders but do not include the Australian redback spider who has a reputation for hiding under toilet seats. These recent fears have emerged from a series of hoax emails originating in the Blush Spider hoax, which began circulating the internet in 1999. Spiders have also been reported to live under seats of airplanes, however, the cleaning chemicals used in the toilets would result in an incompatibility with spider's survival. In large cities like New York City, sewer rats often have mythical status regarding size and ferocity, resulting in tales involving the rodents crawling up sewer pipes to attack an unwitting occupant. Of late, stories about terrorists booby trapping the seat to castrate their targets have begun appearing. Another myth is the risk of being sucked into an aircraft lavatory as a result of vacuum pressure during a flight. In fiction In the 1970 British movie The Man Who Had Power Over Women one of the film's main characters, as portrayed by actor James Booth, dies after a truck carrying toilets swerves on a roadway and subsequently tips over and crushes him to death. In South Park season 16 episode 1, Mrs. Donovan dies from falling into the toilet. When she fell, she flushed the toilet, thus creating a suction that forcefully pulled her organs out of her body. See also List of unusual deaths Sanitation List of people who died on the toilet References 37. PBS.org Elvis’ addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death Technology hazards Injury Causes of death