What happens when your pipes rust

GatorsCrocsAneurysms · 2012-11-13T19:49:26+00:00

I too saw the featured picture on Wikipedia clicked on rust and saw this same picture.

teppei01 · 2012-11-13T17:56:53+00:00

Also what happens when you eat bad Chinese food

DDerpDurp · 2012-11-13T18:18:49+00:00

False. That's what happens when a water main breaks.

Water pipes are made from copper, copper doesn't rust.

thebreno123p · 2012-11-13T17:48:10+00:00

You get chocolate milk?

mwkenned · 2012-11-13T18:26:44+00:00

Bathtub girl.

GingerFresh · 2012-11-13T20:39:31+00:00

Reminds me of tubgirl

redshirt07 · 2012-11-13T18:06:47+00:00

Free coffee !

flounder19 · 2012-11-13T18:12:54+00:00

reminds me of new well water

mermaid69lol · 2012-11-13T18:19:02+00:00

What happens when you eat too much Taco Bell.

moopie · 2012-11-13T19:12:21+00:00

Bundy iced tea.

yippy_tor · 2012-11-13T19:21:04+00:00

sure you dont live in Worcester? http://www.telegram.com/article/20121113/NEWS/311139881/1116

zelleie · 2012-11-13T18:25:14+00:00

This could also be a symptom of turbidity caused by an old hot water heater. Usually when you change the heating element.

drays · 2012-11-13T19:52:20+00:00

Um, a lot more likely to be from your rusting hot water tank.

While there are steel pipes kicking around north America, I've never seen or heard of them causing that much rust.

Journeyman plumber here by the way.

itsatrapalreadytaken · 2012-11-13T20:28:34+00:00

"If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back." Homer Simpson

karlomac · 2012-11-13T18:37:32+00:00

Where did Tubgirl go?

DGSPJS · 2012-11-13T18:35:01+00:00

This is what happens when someone hides a corpse in your water heater.

johnnyarms · 2012-11-13T18:36:58+00:00

usually I use the term 'anal faucet' to graphically describe my diarrhea to friends and family, but after seeing this, I might finally have to put the term to rest.

Joao_Platypus · 2012-11-13T18:44:32+00:00

that's what happens if i drink a pot of coffee in the morning without having breakfast

SourCreamWater · 2012-11-13T18:49:24+00:00

All I thought of was the movie "The Money Pit."

dbubes · 2012-11-13T19:01:33+00:00

looks like you get a tub full of shrim

kingofthekastle · 2012-11-13T19:01:34+00:00

eeeeewwwwwww

big_tuna2 · 2012-11-13T19:03:50+00:00

Are you sure you didn't just win a lifetime supply of Pepsi?

JTyler82 · 2012-11-13T19:06:57+00:00

This is usually what happens after Taco Bell for me

john_cockstosten · 2012-11-13T19:13:40+00:00

Combined with LSD you get this.

"The Tingler" starring Vincent Price, 1959

0kazak1 · 2012-11-13T19:14:59+00:00

You, forget the part about not turning your water on for period of time.

There only two major cases I can think of where you would get dark water: -Broken pipe way upstream -Haven't turned on pipe for a long time so the rust settles.

YoureMyBoyBloo · 2012-11-13T19:18:58+00:00

Your pipes are fine, you have just angered the blood god.

DocHoldiay · 2012-11-13T19:19:07+00:00

already knew it from breaking bad

HomelessBro69 · 2012-11-13T19:22:15+00:00

That's disgusting. I'm a Pepsi guy.

Mofrosho · 2012-11-13T19:23:41+00:00

Do you have a kid? It's probably just possessed.

stopthiscouch · 2012-11-13T19:25:00+00:00

or when they open up a hydrant down the street to clear it out. happens about once a year here... it's just everything got stirred up for a bit. give it time... and don't run your hot water (you don't want it in your tank).

woznak · 2012-11-13T19:25:19+00:00

I can smell the rust right now...

LessLikeYou · 2012-11-13T19:30:12+00:00

GET OUT!!!

Tralan · 2012-11-13T19:32:52+00:00

Also what happens when you eat Taco Bell.

rane56 · 2012-11-13T19:39:43+00:00

There are not many plumbers here....

r3dditname · 2012-11-13T19:40:35+00:00

If I could bathe in barbecue sauce, I would be soooooooo happy

NerftheHerder · 2012-11-13T19:42:43+00:00

Chocolate Milk Bath!!!! Awesome!!!!

GoldenWaffles · 2012-11-13T19:42:47+00:00

I had something similar happen to me before, except this was in a rarely used university lab...scared the shit out of me, I didn't know if it was rust or some nasty ass chemical that would burn my skin off.

HeadCrusher3000 · 2012-11-13T19:43:21+00:00

Also happens when an evil sludge is flowing through out the city because of the manifestation of negative energy from too many assholes. Call the ghostbusters

edbgon · 2012-11-13T19:44:51+00:00

I remember going to Russia in some old hotels in St. Petersburg and Moscow and being told to expect the water to be brown and let it run for a while before just giving up and washing in the brown anyway.

naewpaks · 2012-11-13T19:47:11+00:00

Is the brown because of the poop or the rust? cause ewwwwwww

Rosetti · 2012-11-13T19:47:13+00:00

Interesting.

Mikkelliep · 2012-11-13T19:58:24+00:00

Looks like my pee

dirtydayboy · 2012-11-13T19:58:25+00:00

If it starts to turn pink and anthropomorphic, better call these guys.

EducatedRetard · 2012-11-13T19:59:33+00:00

OH. My. God. Your faucet dispenses chocolate milk!!

streetsy · 2012-11-13T20:08:59+00:00

Money Pit.

travis90465 · 2012-11-13T20:09:17+00:00

Chocolate milk?

PoozTool13 · 2012-11-13T20:15:16+00:00

Nope. Bodies in the walls. I would advise you to call your local pastor, sweep it along with the surrounding grounds for demons, then burn it.

ctb0020 · 2012-11-13T20:21:26+00:00

It makes you water into coffee?

mjfikes · 2012-11-13T20:28:30+00:00

Worcestershire sauce on tap! sweet!

Oodlesoffun · 2012-11-13T20:30:41+00:00

Looks a lot like someone had Taco Bell last night...

EKsTaZiJA · 2012-11-13T20:38:49+00:00

so that's bad then?

continuousBaBa · 2012-11-13T20:39:04+00:00

Poltergeist.

mr_shins · 2012-11-13T20:40:43+00:00

I'm more concerned about your gravy levels!

koaladungface · 2012-11-13T20:41:33+00:00

http://imgur.com/NDJsW [fixed]

printisdead · 2012-11-13T20:42:05+00:00

"We've got a saying here in Springfield. If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back." ~HJS

ReverendVoice · 2012-11-13T20:45:49+00:00

This foretells the coming of Vigo The Carpathian!!!!

Logondo · 2012-11-13T20:49:00+00:00

I wish my taps poured coka cola.

OmarGoodness · 2012-11-13T20:50:14+00:00

So rusted pipes replaces your home's water with Coke?

scottchman1 · 2012-11-13T20:52:08+00:00

thats what happens when you eat mcdonalds and taco bell within 12 hours

blueskydiver76 · 2012-11-13T20:54:45+00:00

chocolate water!

icecreamfiend · 2012-11-13T20:55:20+00:00

Are you sure that there isn't some malevolent creature that created a psychomagnetheric slime flow in your city and said creature isn't after your baby?

oasis22 · 2012-11-13T20:55:42+00:00

This looks like a scene from Breaking Bad.

HandyCore3 · 2012-11-13T20:56:39+00:00

This is also what happens when your building's sprinkler system goes off.

Swaggin_23 · 2012-11-13T20:57:33+00:00

Just curious, what would happen (besides Tetanus) to someone who swallowed water that had been in contact with a lot of rust?

mutonchops · 2012-11-13T21:00:43+00:00

If its brown, drink it down...

M7600 · 2012-11-13T21:04:52+00:00

Shhhh!! Tubgirl was here. Keep your eyes open.

dedmete · 2012-11-13T21:07:49+00:00

This used to happen in our house whenever the fire dept. would turn on the fire hydrant (usually a couple times a year) that was across the street from our house. It freaked me out the first time it happened. I was getting ready to take a shower.

spacemanIV · 2012-11-13T21:13:19+00:00

false, thats what happens when i eat white castle.

jonathanalejos22 · 2012-11-13T21:14:32+00:00

charlie and the chocolate factory

frodeem · 2012-11-13T21:15:02+00:00

You get rum and coke!!

walken4life · 2012-11-13T21:24:29+00:00

Who among us has not wished for soy sauce on tap?

Holdmybeerwatchthis · 2012-11-13T21:33:26+00:00

Pay back for the tubgirls photo shoot.

FromFrankie · 2012-11-13T21:37:25+00:00

Free Coke?

Fudgefactor7 · 2012-11-13T21:44:23+00:00

Or the city is flushing the main lines. This happens to me once or twice a year.

cristian9412 · 2012-11-13T21:54:46+00:00

Ordinary day in mexico

Howdy_McGee · 2012-11-13T22:03:21+00:00

I'm confused, you end up with a bathtub of Whiskey?

veracious1 · 2012-11-13T22:06:19+00:00

Looks like chocolate rain.

beatkonducta · 2012-11-13T22:10:13+00:00

From the amount of upvotes I can tell a lot of people on reddit have never gone on a vacation before.

F1SH_T4C0 · 2012-11-13T22:11:42+00:00

what? It turns in to a coffee machine, what are you complaining about?

Really_Likes_Nutella · 2012-11-13T22:12:42+00:00

Also when you run the water right down in a tank susceptible to rust.

katatafisch · 2012-11-13T22:18:43+00:00

Free coffee?

Mugzz12 · 2012-11-13T22:29:42+00:00

Hey, this just happened in Worcester. A 24 or 30 inch pipe broke. Flooded my school. No school for days.

DeweyBeatTruman · 2012-11-13T22:29:57+00:00

It's mixing the chocolate. It's actually churning the chocolate!

Dick_Dickly_Dickson · 2012-11-13T22:32:19+00:00

Well this explains female's first start having periods in their teenage years.

Stregano · 2012-11-13T22:36:13+00:00

Is this Willy Wonka's bathtub or something?

I want a bathtub that only produces Dr Pepper. That would be awesome

ReaverParrell · 2012-11-13T22:38:44+00:00

That looks like liquid shit.

Switchzor · 2012-11-13T22:41:36+00:00

Free coffee ?

Athene_Wins · 2012-11-13T22:42:22+00:00

Did they accidentally switch the water pipe with the iced cappachino pipe? I love it when that happens.

johnthedrunk · 2012-11-13T22:45:20+00:00

Here is the article on wikipedia it hails from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust

the_pie_guy · 2012-11-13T22:47:02+00:00

It's like tub girl all over again.

zelosdomingo · 2012-11-13T22:48:01+00:00

Wonder if this could be the inspiration for the classic horror scene of blood coming from faucets.

DeFeet · 2012-11-13T22:51:38+00:00

That is what I look like when I get food poisoning...

kdkblkxktklkskdh · 2012-11-13T23:05:05+00:00

This picture is from Russia or somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Once a year they do an "obratka", where they run the hot water through the pipes in the opposite direction for a few days to clean them out.

hardy93 · 2012-11-13T23:05:13+00:00

what happens your first week back at college and eating cafeteria food

mtread · 2012-11-13T23:07:39+00:00

Tub girl?

iamabe · 2012-11-13T23:15:37+00:00

free coffee!

inthesky18 · 2012-11-13T23:15:59+00:00

or this could be your water heater is bad...if this only happens with hot water..

Agrippa911 · 2012-11-13T23:17:36+00:00

You have coffee on tap? You lucky bastard!

iamreddicted · 2012-11-13T23:19:35+00:00

I saw it and immediately smelled iced tea.

PeoplebeCray · 2012-11-13T23:28:01+00:00

Thumbnail kinda looks like a puppy laying on its side in a tub.

bobusdoleus · 2012-11-13T23:30:53+00:00

"Mooooooom, the house is bleeding again!"

C4_pants · 2012-11-13T23:34:24+00:00

/r/WTF

PineappleCats · 2012-11-13T23:39:23+00:00

getting horrible tubgirl flashbacks..

MisterDonkey · 2012-11-13T23:39:58+00:00

I've been showering and opened my eyes to see the water like this midway through. It was a terrible day.

Cubanned · 2012-11-13T23:59:05+00:00

How'd you get your bathtub to dispense soda?

Orange_Wolf · 2012-11-14T00:01:04+00:00

::insert clever comment about cheesy pornos and cleaning out the pipes::

I_AM_PICKLE_LORD · 2012-11-14T00:10:31+00:00

It must take a lot of people to produce this shit-water mixture.

themanofawesomeness · 2012-11-14T00:18:56+00:00

it's a good source of iron!

forkandbowl · 2012-11-14T00:30:00+00:00

Fire dept might have been flushing hydrants as well.. The water often comes out black, red is very common though.

AmadHassassin · 2012-11-14T00:32:32+00:00

Wow! Free coffee!

visavismeyou · 2012-11-14T00:33:37+00:00

or when you eat sushi from the gas station.

bowsersdick · 2012-11-14T00:36:37+00:00

Need to get one of those tankless models

4dolfin · 2012-11-14T00:40:02+00:00

Or when I have taco bell

CuriousAnn · 2012-11-14T01:00:48+00:00

Free coffee

jaygibby22 · 2012-11-14T01:01:59+00:00

This would happen all the time at my old apartment. It would always occur after the water was shut off in the building for repairs. It normally cleared up after a few minutes of running the water

3russians · 2012-11-14T01:04:36+00:00

Yay a Coke faucet!

Twatbagel · 2012-11-14T01:07:37+00:00

And that's how you make your own chocolate factory

sfzen · 2012-11-14T01:13:35+00:00

You did make sure to taste it, just in case, right?

longhairedcountryboy · 2012-11-14T01:13:48+00:00

Somebody used black iron when they should have used galvanized.

IsaacJDean · 2012-11-14T01:14:32+00:00

This is the explanation for the Tub Girl picture

wealy · 2012-11-14T01:14:39+00:00

Fecal Japan anyone?

Greenwaller · 2012-11-14T01:25:39+00:00

Looks like that scene from Stephen Kings' "It"... shudders

crimsonazuresun · 2012-11-14T01:27:35+00:00

Mmm...yummy!

geralddarden · 2012-11-14T01:42:49+00:00

Tubgirl! Noooooooo!

JTMx29 · 2012-11-14T01:57:58+00:00

They could have replaced their well pump.

suicidalblackmetal · 2012-11-14T01:59:21+00:00

Free coca cola?

Iwalktherain · 2012-11-14T02:05:42+00:00

fun fact: this is completely safe to drink

I_Work_For_The_GovT · 2012-11-14T02:06:20+00:00

Tubgirl.

uncooperativecheese · 2012-11-14T02:06:34+00:00

They get diarrhea!?

IfYouCantTrustSanta · 2012-11-14T02:07:08+00:00

This is what it's like to chew the new 5 gum

SpiderDairy · 2012-11-14T02:10:18+00:00

Gotta ditch the galvanized and move to pex, son.

TheDynamoScotch · 2012-11-14T02:18:56+00:00

Please someone superimpose a butt over that faucet. Please Internet, I beg you.

MycroSopht · 2012-11-14T02:20:11+00:00

The city is probably just cleaning out your water lines they do this in my city every so often..

spiderobert · 2012-11-14T02:20:30+00:00

♪♫Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination♫♪

troll_trollingsworth · 2012-11-14T02:21:47+00:00

thank you for not posting this in /r/WTF !

Cheffheid · 2012-11-14T02:24:15+00:00

When your pipe rust, you'll have red headed children.

i_need_downvotes_now · 2012-11-14T02:24:47+00:00

You get free Coca Cola? Sounds okay to me.

ohmyorangejuice · 2012-11-14T02:25:45+00:00

Some feel the love and others feel the pain

i_wont_die · 2012-11-14T02:36:05+00:00

tub_girl.flv

PhredPhnerd · 2012-11-14T02:41:27+00:00

That might be iron in the water.. are you on a well?

preppyrower · 2012-11-14T02:42:00+00:00

Looks like you're taking a shrim bath.

POPTARTBURNR · 2012-11-14T02:48:50+00:00

Oh dear god, I misread that and saw the picture and was almost mortified.

All I could think was "how the fuck does your penis rust anyways?"

zamboniman46 · 2012-11-14T02:54:58+00:00

Worcester water main break?

hezod · 2012-11-14T02:57:49+00:00

Careful there, or the newly unemployed Jersey Shore cast will be knocking at your door for a cheaper way to fake tan.

TheLearningReddit · 2012-11-14T02:59:58+00:00

Ooof. That faucet must have eaten at the same chinese place I did earlier today...

robzombie33 · 2012-11-14T03:00:17+00:00

i hate seeing Dark Water

jedosan88 · 2012-11-14T03:02:43+00:00

This happened to me whilst in an Osaka hotel in Japan. I always thought the place was haunted too. The fourth floor had black shiny doors and the lights were always off. The floors were wet and every time we went past that floor in the elevator, the elevator would shake. When I woke up one morning and turned on the bath, the water came out with that colour. Some serious Grudge shit!

A---Scott · 2012-11-14T03:04:26+00:00

Tub girl.

MosesByxbe · 2012-11-14T03:31:43+00:00

I work at a home improvement store and have seen this happen when the anode rod in a water heater corrodes through the magnesium coating into the steel core and turns hot water nasty brown.

martyncj · 2012-11-14T03:32:15+00:00

They make beer?

ReVo5000 · 2012-11-14T03:32:49+00:00

I think your faucet has Diarrhea.

Lespaul42 · 2012-11-14T03:48:46+00:00

TAKE THE BABY AND GET OUT OF THE BATHROOM SIGOURNEY WEAVER!!!

beardtopus · 2012-11-14T03:49:05+00:00

I lived in WV, and had water like that. The pipes were fine. The water was just...like that.

Philtheguy · 2012-11-14T03:49:34+00:00

"Always Coca-Cola!"

ID10T_er · 2012-11-14T03:56:11+00:00

yeah in high school this would happen in the locker rooms whenever we returned from break. Not as dark but still dark, also would only happen for a minute tops

niennaz · 2012-11-14T03:56:35+00:00

If I leave my apartment for a certain while of time I get that. Is this a similar reason? It's only a very very small amount before it turns clear though.

MakkaCha · 2012-11-14T04:09:48+00:00

TIL what the secret formula in Coca Cola is.

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