Yeah, we Texans all have oil in our backyards...or toilets

[GalvestonDuck]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4178647/

The Associated Press
Updated: 11:11 a.m. ET Feb. 05, 2004LONGVIEW, Texas - A Texas woman has struck oil — or maybe it struck her.

Leila LeTourneau returned from work late Monday to find crude oil covering her home’s floors and spilling from the toilets, bathtub and sinks.

Experts have told her the oil kind of “burped up.”

Longview city crews and representatives from Basa Research, which owns some wells in the area, are trying to help find the source of the oil.

Local station KLTV reported one theory is that the house may have been built on an abandoned well that wasn’t properly plugged.

“I always tease people about ’doesn’t everybody in Texas have an oil derrick in the back yard?’ Then when I came home I discovered I struck oil inside the house,” LeTourneau said.

She and her son are now staying at a hotel.

[JQ Public]

Saw this somewhere earlier! So funny!

[breeze]

Dang, Duck - I drove through the Panhandle,
several years ago, and decided that EVERYONE
in Texas had an oil well in the back yard, just
like everyone in Tennessee has a brother named
"Bubba"... LOL!!

If that were ME, someone better clean that
mess up, out of MY house!

[coriolis]

Shades of Jed Clampett!

[azskyman]

I do believe they need to make a heavy duty seat liner for that one!

[David]

Hum.. how weird. Thanks for posting.