Crash knocks man off toilet in New Zealand

A Christchurch man was rudely interrupted yesterday when a four-wheel-drive vehicle crashed into his conservatory, knocking him off the toilet.

"We want to keep it hush-hush at the moment because the house just sold yesterday," the man said, watching the Toyota Land Cruiser being winched out of his house in Rossmore Terrace, Cashmere.

The vehicle went backwards down a 10m bank about 6.55am yesterday after a builder working next door left the handbrake half-on.



"He came back to his vehicle and found it next door, basically," said Sergeant Kim Reid, of the Christchurch police.

"The vehicle's been parked and he's left it there. The vehicle has then run down the hill, gone through some trees and into this gentleman's property."

Asked how the builder might be feeling, the man said:"What about me? I got knocked off the toilet. I got a hell of a fright."