Do you need to hire a portable toilet? We are super serious about our job as Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast’s portable toilet hire experts. But every now and then we hear a story or two about portable toilet disasters that just need to be shared with the world.
So, clear your floor of any dangerous obstacles and start rolling with laughter. Here are our top 5 favourite ROFL portable toilet faux pas.
Poo Girl
Poor old Poo Girl, AKA Charlotte Taylor from the UK, found her 15 minutes of fame in 2009 when she became stuck, head down and bottom up, in a portable toilet at Leeds Festival. Apparently, she dropped her purse, which contained her phone, money and train ticket home, down the portable toilet and became stuck as she wedged herself in trying to pull it out.
She was eventually rescued by laughing firemen after being trapped for around 20 minutes. Poo Girl’s story became so big that some enterprising person cashed in on her embarrassment by releasing a line of ‘I’m with Poo Girl’ hoodies.
Avoid Poo Girl’s fate by keeping your mobile phone and purse tucked away safely when you use the toilet next time you’re at a festival.
Carried away on the loo
A female visitor to Newlyn Fish Festival in Cornwall in 2015 was literally carried away when she used the portable toilet on site. While she was busy with her number 1’s and 2’s, her portable toilet was lifted up by a forklift truck and taken to the other side of the harbour. Apparently, this isn’t the first time this has happened at this particular fish festival!
The woman was uninjured and the harbour master is on record as saying that she must have ‘thought she had teleported’ when she emerged from her portable toilet in a new location. We can only imagine the amount of curried beans one needs to eat to not notice when your portable loo is being lifted up by a forklift!
Perhaps the person in charge of hiring the portable toilets for this fish festival was asked by their boss in a memo to ‘higher a portable toilet’? Geddit?
Yoga festival portable loo pervert
In 2011 police caught and arrested a man at Hanuman Yoga Festival in Colorado after female festival goers complained about a ‘peeping Tom’ staring up at them from inside the toilet. They were alerted to the scoundrel when one woman looked down to discover a face in the faeces staring back at her.
Police later arrested the man, covered from head to toe in poo and wrapped in a tarp. We doubt very much they needed to call in the sniffer dogs to hunt down this filthy fiend.
The moral of this story is always look down before you sit – this also helps you to avoid sitting on a wet and dirty toilet seat. If you can see eyes staring back at you from the foul depths below, chances are it’s probably not Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo, but someone with less than jolly intentions.
High times in the loo
If you’re ever in charge of the bathroom area at an event, be sure that you specify that you’d like to ‘hire a portable toilet’ and not get ‘high in a portable toilet’. This distinction should help you avoid the following portable loo blunder.
In August 2016, a man walking through a park in Rogue River, Oregon USA, made local headlines when he discovered a portable toilet filled to the brim with cannabis plants. Apparently, it was the largest pot seizure the local police had ever made. Locals playing tennis at nearby courts noticed no suspicious activity around the portable toilet and no one ever came forward to claim the plants.
Glastonbury glitch
In 1998 clever festival goers at Glastonbury thought that it would be a good idea to use the sewage trucks that pump the portable toilets clean to suck up the mud from one of the dance tents. Alas, they weren’t as clever as they thought; the pump on the truck was set to blow rather than suck, resulting in sewerage being sprayed over the crowd. We reckon there was probably a revival of the old quick step dance move out of that particular tent.
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