For the moment, let us table the physics of a toilet AND if OP's toilet does in fact work like yours does… this is the overall scenario you are suggesting as I understand it :
Basic 5-step toilet flush cycle :
A. Flush cycle is initiated when flush-button is pressed.
B. Tank empties rapidly into the bowl rinsing it.
C. Bowl content is syphoned into the sewage pipe.
D. Tank and bowl are replenished with fresh water to achieve the proper levels.
E. Flush cycle ends when proper water levels are attained in both tank and bowl.
The scenario you're suggesting :
1. OP places Reeva in an upright sitting position over the bowl so as to catch most of the blood from the head and arm wounds.
2. Reeva's heart is beating and pumping blood into the bowl which coats the inside surface of bowl with blood.
3. Some time after, OP decides to push the flush-button which initiates the toilet's flush cycle (step A).
4. The initial rush of water in the flush cycle thoroughly rinses and cleans the inside of the bowl (step B)... i.e. no more blood inside the bowl
5. But Reeva's heart is still beating strongly enough to pump more blood into the bowl.
6. This post-flush blood is abundant enough to completely re-coat the inside of the bowl with a fresh blood during steps C & D of the flush cycle.
7. Reeva's heart suddenly stops beating during step D but before step E of the flush cycle.
8. The fresh water trickling into the bowl to replenish it to the proper level partly rinses out the bowls surface which produces the blood streaks.
9. Flush cycle ends (step E).
10. Eventually, OP returns to Reeva's body and moves her off the toilet but decides not flush the toilet a second time.
… I won't venture a speculation on the duration of a flush-cycle of an Australian toilet, of your toilet or even of OP's toilet… BUT
Had OP pressed the flush-button 5 seconds earlier, the bowl would have been covered in blood with no streaks OR 5 seconds later, the bowl would have been spotless with no streaks
Had Reeva's heart stop beating 5 seconds earlier, the bowl would have been spotless with no streaks OR 5 seconds later, the bowl would have been covered in blood with no streaks
… and all possible permutations of the combination of these 2 events,
a vast majority of which would result in no blood streaks
Statistically speaking, the probabilities of these independent and sovereign events (Reeva's heart, OP's actions, toilet flush-cycle steps) to coincide precisely in the manner you are suggesting so as to produce the blood streaks are remote at best !! …IMO
Add to that the fact a
small bullet fragment was recovered inside the bowl… which would have been flushed into the sewage in your scenario by the "
force of the water is greater - it certainly gushes"
Also the
small wood fragment from the toilet door which is visible inside the bowl on the photo would ALSO have been flushed into the sewage in your scenario… as you put it "
You never have to flush twice and the bowl is always completely rinsed"… if the turds from a fully grown adult male athlete flushes away with ease on the first flush then a small wood splitter will certainly not remain, no ?
All of the evidence indicates the toilet was NOT flushed.
Nevertheless, I applaud your creativity in coming up with such a scenario and have thoroughly enjoyed debating it !
As you put it earlier "
It's good to see a lively debate again"
