- Sep 6, 2001
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MOURNERS at a funeral were left terrified when a massive block of frozen urine fell from the sky.
People ducked for cover when iced toilet waste the size of a portable television hurtled down as they were leaving the church.
The lump of ice smashed into the building as around 50 mourners were standing outside and narrowly missed them as it scattered across the ground.
It is believed to have come from an aeroplane that was passing overhead.
Matthew Goodfellow had been attending the funeral of a friend at St Luke's Church in Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
The taxi driver, from the town, said it was lucky nobody had been killed.
He said: 'The lump of ice must have been about a foot square and it was like a bomb going off when it hit the roof.
'It was so big that I'm positive it would have killed a person if they had been hit by it.'
Matthew was so concerned he phoned Glasgow Airport and asked them to investigate.
He added: 'They said it was an unusual occurrence but admitted that it does happen.'
A spokeswoman for National Air Traffic Services confirmed the ice may have been caused by toilet waste.
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MOURNERS at a funeral were left terrified when a massive block of frozen urine fell from the sky.
People ducked for cover when iced toilet waste the size of a portable television hurtled down as they were leaving the church.
The lump of ice smashed into the building as around 50 mourners were standing outside and narrowly missed them as it scattered across the ground.
It is believed to have come from an aeroplane that was passing overhead.
Matthew Goodfellow had been attending the funeral of a friend at St Luke's Church in Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
The taxi driver, from the town, said it was lucky nobody had been killed.
He said: 'The lump of ice must have been about a foot square and it was like a bomb going off when it hit the roof.
'It was so big that I'm positive it would have killed a person if they had been hit by it.'
Matthew was so concerned he phoned Glasgow Airport and asked them to investigate.
He added: 'They said it was an unusual occurrence but admitted that it does happen.'
A spokeswoman for National Air Traffic Services confirmed the ice may have been caused by toilet waste.
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