Enjoy This Soothing Video of Port-a-Potties Being Ripped from the Earth

VICE ^ | Jun 15 2018, 4:25pm | Lauren Messman

[COBOL2Java]

One of man's most wretched creations gets its karmic comeuppance.

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Using a port-a-potty is about as enjoyable as brushing your teeth with gravel. Half outhouse, half torture chamber, the rudimentary bathroom option is usually weirdly hot, emits a revolting smell, and induces claustrophobia. Port-a-potties have also provided the setting for one too many horror stories. We all know this, and yet we're still forcing human beings to use the plastic poop prisons in various public places.

They are, if nothing else, unnecessarily vile creations, which is why watching some get swept away in a wind storm is both terrifying and strangely cathartic.

Thankfully, no one was inside of the port-a-potties when the wind storm hit the Colorado park Monday, and we're left with a fitting visual metaphor. The incident serves as a sort of karmic comeuppance for the disgusting creation, getting blasted away from the good people on the ground and up into the air, where it's unable to control its own faculties, spraying the sky with some unidentifiable liquid. A moment later, we catch a glimpse of the second hell hole being violently smashed into one of the park's structures, before being blown away.

Sure, the rest of the video is terrifying and captures parents and children diving to the ground in sheer terror as gusts of wind tear over them. But for a second we get to see one of man's most wretched inventions being torn skyward and away from Earth, where it can no longer torture our tiny bladders and weary souls.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ya know the advantage of using a porta potties on nightshift outside in Albany NY in mid-January? Frozen porta potties don’t smell bad.
Ya know the disadvantage of using a porta potties in upstate N.Y. in mid January? You have to move them inside to melt them to pump them out.

[glasseye]

“Rocky mountain high.....Colorado...”

[Flick Lives]

What is the average air speed velocity of an unladen outhouse?

[Flag_This]

"What is the average air speed velocity of an unladen outhouse?"

A European or African outhouse?

[boycott]

I bet some of those folks in Colorado thought they had been smoking some bad weed ... or is that good weed?

[T-Bone Texan]

Icy BMs would make a good band name.

[GSWarrior]

That’s what happens when you don’t put the seat down.

[Mase]

Did they land on Hillary, like in the movie?

[Daniel II]

Yeah, pretty pooetic.

[waterhill]

I could list some alternate names for them after nearly 30 years in construction. And stories, goodnight, I got some stories.

[SaveFerris]

THAT is hilarious!

[60Gunner]

Well, so much for the term “as aerodynamic as a sh*thouse”.

[SunkenCiv]

"Hey, we warned ya they wuz portable -- it's right in the name!" ;^)