United Airlines really managed to outdo themselves with their latest mechanical problem this weekend, as a flight bound for SFO had to be diverted because of sewage flowing into the flight cabin.

Mechanical issues on board United Airlines flights to or from SF International Airports are starting to feel like an everyday occurrence. The latest of these was on Thursday night, when a flight from SFO to Paris had to be diverted to Denver because of engine issues.

But boy did United Airlines passengers have a terrible Friday night, the very next evening. The Hill reports that seven passengers had to be hospitalized after turbulence and high winds forced a flight from Newark, New Jersey from Tel Aviv to be rerouted to New Windsor, New York. Then according to the Chronicle, another United flight Friday night from Frankfurt, Germany to SFO had to be rerouted because its toilet was overflowing into the flight cabin.

Man, talk about a shitty flight!

The plane was reportedly forced to fly over the North Sea for a while a flummoxed crew tried to figure out how they were going to resolve this mess. After two hours that must have been excruciating for passengers, the flight did eventually divert back to Frankfurt. And notably, this was a Boeing 777, the same company that is currently facing a criminal probe by the Department of Justice over a January incident where a plane’s door plug blew off during a flight.  

With regard to Friday's incident, United Airlines said in a bare-bones statement to The Hill simply that there was a “maintenance issue with one of the aircraft’s lavatories.”

But there certainly have been maintenance issues with a lot of United flights lately. In addition to the above-mentioned incidents, there was a tire falling off a jet and landing on cars in the SFO parking lot on March 7. Two weeks prior to that, a piece of a wing flap tore off of a United flight from SFO to Boston. On March 8, a United Airbus jet from SFO to Mexico City had a hydraulic problem and was forced to land at LAX. And three days later, an SFO-bound United flight from Sydney, Australia had to turn back to Sydney over an unspecified "maintenance issue."

Plus on March 23, a United flight from SFO to Denver had to turn back to San Francisco after the plane struck a bird.

Related: Japan-Bound United Airlines Flight Out of SFO Loses Tire During Takeoff, Gets Diverted to LAX [SFist]

Image: Arkin Si via Unsplash

Behold Shitter, the latest entertainment app that will create four rolls of toilet paper out of a chosen Twitter feed. You can choose your own, sure, but that wouldn't be nice. You're a great person. Wouldn't you instead prefer to wipe your bottom sparkling clean with the stank words of, say, disgraced dirtbag Karl Rove, heartthrob turned creepy Hollywood type Scott Baio, or noted domestic abuser Chris Brown? The possibilities are endless.

Shitter is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneurs David Gillespie, Matthew Delprado, and Johny Mair.

"Obviously this is fairly tongue in cheek, but we’re reasonably pleased we monetized Twitter in a way that avoided advertising," Gillespie explained to Venture Beat, going on to say, "We all have other jobs, though would obviously like to make it a full-time thing ... The direction is still settling, but I think there’s some kind of course to chart around just trying to entertain people. I don’t know where the revenue is, it may very well wind up needing to be funded by brands when the right project comes along. I can’t imagine Kleenex having put their name to Shitter though!"

If you want to be the first of your friends to get Shitter, do it now. What with the app's almost overnight popularity, order are sure to, um, back up.

[Venture Beat]
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Cintas Corporation, a company that manufactures poo and pee toiletries, is having their annual America's Best Restroom Competition. And the Union Square Macy's 6th floor crapper made the top ten. Yay!

Although females neither urinate nor defecate -- because that's unlady-like -- for some reason they feel the need to have their own bathrooms just like men. (Blame it on women's lib penis envy; we see no other reason.) See, ladies digest food and drink into perfume, sunshine, and lollipops, so public restrooms setup for them are typically more flowery and impressive than bathrooms for men. That's why Macy's female restroom is so smashing.

The contenders are:

• Macy's Department Store: San Francisco, California, 6th floor -- "Art deco design, featuring Italian marble, chandelier with carved ceiling medallion, and full-length stainless steel stall doors.
• Shoji Tabuchi Theatre (Branson, Missouri): "Marble fireplaces, hand-carved mahogany pool table, antiques, lion's head sinks, leather chairs, stained glass and chandeliers."

• Radio City Music Hall (New York, New York): Designed in the early 1930's, restroom and lounges feature classic tile work, art deco furnishings and unique materials, including cork- covered walls.

• Canlis Restaurant (Seattle, Washington): Zen-like atmosphere, featuring handmade organic wall coverings, designer fixtures, Japanese art, with large picture windows overlooking garden.

If we may get all TV Guide you for a second: Cheers, SF Weekly, for reporting on the Toilet Torcher's illuminating crime wave. You have proven a formidable journalistic force when it comes to porta-potty arson in the Russian Hill, Nob Hill and Marina . The Toilet Torcher has just immolated his or her 22nd crapper, this time on the 700 block of Chestnut yesterday, and you manage to keep up with the fiery fella. Kudos.

But also: Jeers, SF Weekly, for calling him or her "Outhouse Arsonist." That is not his or her name. You, AP, and even USA Today know damn well that their Christian name (care of SFist, thank you very much) is and forever will be "Toilet Torcher." Bah.

We were beginning to think we our favorite arsonist hung up his bic. Not so. According to reports, it seems the Toilet Torcher has struck again, this time at "3:50 on Sunday morning," setting ablaze a porta-potty at on the 2000 block of Broadway. Since November, portable toilets have fell victim to someone or some persons setting the plastic outhouses on fire. So far no one has been injured. [Inset poop joke here]

Josh B. snapped up this scene from inside a toilet stall in the bathroom outside the Board of Supervisors chambers. Which leads us to ask: Who did it?

Made by Toto (no, not this Toto, but a swank Japanese company) , Google employees at their California offices can release their urine and evacuate their bowels like space-age kings using this ultra-modern and terrible chic toilet. Not happy with merely wiping, Google employees have the option to wash the rear area, wash the front area (something people should really do more often), dry, perform something called "wand cleaning," and so much more.

Sure, it's more than you've ever wanted to know about Google, but... well, you're welcome.