The story about the guy that fell through the toilet floor at Ruby’s Bar in Coney Island over the weekend has been explained and updated. The person who posts photos as Rubyhost on flickr, explains that the person did not emerge “literally covered in shit” as was thought and says that landlord Joe Sitt is helping to pay for repairs and that Ruby’s hopes to be often for the weekend after the bathroom floor is replaced. Here’s the poop on the poop dirt:

Rubys over the weekend had an unfortunate accident as everyone has reported. The facts are as he did fall thru a partially collapsed floor in the mens room – the piping was not broken – he missed them – barely. He had literally hit the dirt floor underneath along with all the cobwebs etc. When he emerged – he was moving slowly himself up the ladder (thank goodness he had jeans on) only from his knees down was pretty filthy- mainly with dirt.

Rubys was given permission to open over the holiday weekend with outside seating. The building inspector came by Tuesday and closed Rubys until repairs was complete – all the inside – including the grill. Michael thru the food out that had been pulled for Tuesday since he could not put it in Fridge not knowing how many days it could take for repairs.

Repairs are moving very quickly with Mr. Sitt paying part of the cost. He would like Rubys to remain on the boardwalk – for now- and offered to help. Therefore we had engineers in very quickly assessing the hole – contractors begun working Tuesday afternoon. Michael is hoping to reopen by Friday afternoon/evening.

Here’s hoping that the rest of the summer season at Ruby’s is less eventful than the official opening weekend.