Posted on 06/05/2015 8:09:55 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) - A porta-potty was tipped over. There was a man trapped inside. And police said witnesses did it on purpose because the man was touching himself while holding the door open.
It was not your everyday call for assistance at the foot of the Hawthorne Bridge on Thursday morning.
An officer was flagged down about a man trapped in a portable toilet near the Eastbank Esplanade at 8 a.m.
The Honey Bucket's door was against the ground, so Portland Fire & Rescue personnel responded to lift it back up and free the man who was inside.
The 48-year-old homeless man was not injured, according to police, but he was covered in "fecal matter" and waste from the tank of the porta-potty.
An anonymous homeless person approached the crews at the scene and said the man had been in the porta-potty with his pants around his ankles, "pleasuring himself" as he held the door open.
The witness told officers that other homeless people in the area were tired of the man's behavior, so they knocked over the porta-potty and ran away.
Those people were not identified or located by police near the scene.
Based on the circumstances of the incident, officers decided not to arrest the man and got him some clean clothes.
The Portland Police Bureau said in a statement Thursday that they discourage people taking direct action in circumstances like that and advise calling 911 when witnessing an incident of public indecency.
The Honey Bucket that was tipped over was replaced.
‘Honey Bucket’????
Yep. I like it too.
Now here is a tough case to decide who to arrest...
I can’t seem to get my mind deep enough into the gutter to form an opinion on this.
So, it is apparently not against the law to jerk off in public?
Wow...
What a crappy way to start the day... instead of “when the sh*t hit the fan”, it’s “when the sh*t hit the man”...
Try the veal... here till Tuesday!
LOL. Here is one case where vigilantism is fine.
Apparently the smell of human waste doesn’t phase him when he’s getting frisky.
It’s Portland, OR.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Awesome.
I was unaware that we had homeless people after Obama was elected.
I remember the media reported daily on homelessness when Reagan was president. We have more homeless than ever before.
When you don't have a witness...............it's hard to climax with an arrest. They took vigilante justice rather than report him to the police.
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Those people were not identified or located by police near the scene.
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I doubt they expended much effort finding them.
I wish I could find the gif of the construction site in which a swinging crane load accidentally turns over a porta-potty with a supervisor inside.
You can almost smell the stench!
If it makes those guys gag...then it is bad!
That was way, WAAAAY over the top.
Note to next nut case: If you want to expose yourself in that manner, don't do it in a porta-potty.
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