Police called to man suffering early-morning ablutions

Canadian police rushed to a Victoria housing complex after a man’s struggles on the toilet were so noisy that a concerned neighbour called 911. It happened on Wednesday at about 5 a.m. at a home on Empress Avenue.

The woman heard moaning and yelling coming from the man’s basement suite, so officers arrived to check on his well-being, according to deputy chief John Ducker, writing on the VicPD operations blog.



After repeated knocks and announcements by the officers, the man opened the door.

“When questioned about the amount of noise he was making, the man explained that he had been essentially (in his own different words) on the toilet having his morning constitutional but he was done now,” Ducker wrote. The man promised to keep it down in the future.