How a Badly Designed Toilet Killed 60 Nobles | Tales From the Bottle
The world was a grim place before the advent of the flush toilet.
“On 26 July 1184, in the German city of Erfurt, approximately sixty local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed through the ground floor and into the latrine cesspit below. They were attending a Hoftag (“court day”) conducted by King Henry VI when their combined weight caused the floor of the building to collapse. Some of the attendees drowned in human waste after falling into the cesspit.”
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@guardiankiller108
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
What was the plan for all the poop in the latrine anyway it would've eventually filled up
@VincentNajger1
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
We've all seen the vids of the toilets in India and China…and Im not even gonna think about Pakistan and most of Africa lol.
@steampunkburrito
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Medieval Final Destination.
@Decopunk1927
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
The flushing toilet is one of the most important inventions of humans, along with the printing press and the refrigerator
@StarofSolomon
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
I'm literally sitting on the toilet like this 0:06 while watching this video! 😹
@youareIndenial981
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Ooops
@J.Mart.007
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
0:15 Let’s all just say it (INDIA)
@AlviteM5
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Dam guess India is on his no travel list
@bkhristorozhdestvensky180
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
I'm going to bed this is where the expression don't s*** where you eat has come from
@bkhristorozhdestvensky180
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Oh my! Imagine explaining that at the funeral now how did he die? LOL he died in a s***** 🤣
@basinxrandomstuff7264
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Didnt that smell bad (even before collapse)?
@jensschroder8214
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
oh sh*t !
@paulorocky
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Wouldn’t be the last time in history that a German military campaign in Poland was followed by sh1tty outcomes
@marcushursl2931
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
POLITICS IS A DIRTY BUSINESS
@Sgt_McChubbs
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
My 6th grade history class will love this story!
@AndersPack
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
"Pit Of Shit", that's a good band name! (also quite a good acronym for the band to use…)
@tylerkinley268
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
"don't fill a pit with shit, cover it in wood, and throw a massive party on it"- So my plans for fecal Woodstock have met their end…
@relfyem
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
"The Pit of Dethpair…"
@svenericsson7286
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Medieval PR- management 1.0.1: Claiming the top brass where standing in "an alcove", because of cause THEY did NOT fall into the latrine 😉, that made EVERYONE BUT THEM take a dive.
Why? Why would anyone remember seeing someone taking the brown dive if they then cound recall you where scheduled for execution… for TOTALLY unrelated things? 🤣
@AnAverageBoss
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
I was just about to dig a shit pit, put a wooden floor above it, and proceed to host a massive party on it. So glad I saw this video beforehand
@johnelwer3633
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
We need to bring back this treatment of the owning class.
@inaciolaralis10
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
No bath in the world would make me feel clean again
@Sassquatch25
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
This is how I want Trump to go.
@leafyu3037
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
what a shitty situation 😔
@PARCPROD
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Dont meet where you shit !
@PARCPROD
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Dont meet where you shit !
@OsamonGaming
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Drowning in poopy juice
@SabotAndHeat75
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
“Total shit show” 😂
@jakx2ob
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
retvrn
@eXecu7or
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
what a shitty situation
@Masterthe3rd
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
And just think, this was before Taco Bell
@JohnDoe-hc3yz
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
When I read "Consider Phlebas", first book of Banks' Culture series, I immediately thought of this 1184 story and still think it inspired him to one of the spectacularly weirdest execution scenes of all fiction
@sync232
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Good place to search for demons!
@thegnwigeberht1066
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
1:53
"Wittelsbach". This family would do wonderous things for Scandinavia in about 200 years.
@godmagnus
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Louis survived, he just wishes he hadn't
@EnagaTori
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Damn, now I've got to cancel my cesspit plank party…
@ava.artemis
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
😂 great video. I remind myself how grateful I am for flush toilets regularly.
@jerichaux9219
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
I'm loving the bloopers, glad to know I'm not alone.
@lordgiblets7585
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
I wonder how many comments called it a shitty way to go.
@Goldenleyend
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
An instance of an incident where surviving is unluckier than dying
@Rob-g1q3d
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
This story is full of crap and I couldn't give a sh*t. Thumbs up 🙂
@spaceman9599
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
So Louis didn't die in the Loo?
@spaceman9599
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
I suspect the local peasantry had a slight easing of their normal hellish life for a short period of time.
@spaceman9599
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
I've played Age of Empires II. I know these obscure central Europeans.
No wonder Barbarossa bgrd off to die and get put in a pickle barrel in the Middle East.
@spaceman9599
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
It's what people did before festivals…
@spaceman9599
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
The toilet disaster was invented before Taco Hell?
@McTallo
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Until the 19th century there wasn't even an idea what a country called "Germany" could be.
@Jonathan2342
May 22, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Crappy way to go