# Police Rescue Nude man from Porta-a-Potty **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047 "2008-06-06T19:15:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/1 "2008-06-06T19:15:08Z")
I’m SURE there’s a simple, rational explanation for this story: > [@](#): > > Pa. crews rescue nude man stuck in portable potty > > LEBANON, Pa. (AP) - Rescue crews had to cut apart a portable toilet to rescue a man who got stuck naked inside the potty. Authorities say the 31-year-old man used his cell phone to call 911 on Sunday from inside a portable toilet. > > Police say the man had been drinking and had taken off his clothes. Somehow, he immersed himself in the holding tank. > > Deputy fire commissioner Chris Miller told WPMT-TV, “I’ve been on the job in one form or fashion for 21 years, and this is the first port-a-potty rescue I’ve ever had.” > > Police charged the man with public drunkenness and creating a health code violation, but they have no idea why he was in the toilet with his clothes off. They said he didn’t suffer any serious injuries. [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080606/D914O9GO0.html](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080606/D914O9GO0.html) So, to wrap up: 1.) He was Nude 2.) He was Drunk 3.) He was stuck _in the holding tank_ of the port-a-potty. 4.) But, fortunately, he had his cell phone. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/2 "2008-06-06T19:27:03Z")
Wow, that had to be embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/3 "2008-06-06T19:27:04Z")
Though we’ll never know, my guess is that he’s a pervy little golden-shower loving voyeur who thought hiding in the tank of the port-a-potty would be a thrill. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/4 "2008-06-06T19:33:59Z")
Duh. He dropped his cell phone in the holding tank, so he had to go after it. Some explanations are too obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/5 "2008-06-06T19:40:05Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] Though we’ll never know, my guess is that he’s a pervy little golden-shower loving voyeur who thought hiding in the tank of the port-a-potty would be a thrill. [/QUOTE] Yeah, they arrested some dude just up the coast from here who was caught hiding in the crap tank of an outhouse. Lord, am I ever glad that my perversions are fairly mainstream. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/6 "2008-06-06T19:49:23Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > ..pervy little golden-shower loving voyeur… That made me chuckle. I wonder if he’s dyed blue like the fluid is? ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/7 "2008-06-06T20:05:21Z")
They arrested him for \*public \* drunkeness? But he wasn’t \*in \* public when they arrested him. He was in the holding tank of the porta-potty. It’ll never stand up in court. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/8 "2008-06-06T20:07:40Z")
Okay, this just made unfunny one of the funniest photos I ever saw in the Army. It was mid-1970s, we were in the field and the CO insisted we dig a slit trench for a lousy two-day deployment of six guys. Soon’s we got the trench dug and the canvas put up, one of my buddies jumped down into the still-unused trench with his camera, the rest of us dropped trou and posed. It was hilarious! That was then … ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/9 "2008-06-06T20:19:53Z")
Talk about shit-faced drunk! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/10 "2008-06-06T20:21:36Z")
Crap. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/11 "2008-06-06T20:26:36Z")
I poo-poo your jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/12 "2008-06-06T20:49:51Z")
He was probably a little scatter brained. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/13 "2008-06-06T20:57:58Z")
I hope it wasn’t a phone cam… ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/14 "2008-06-06T22:50:11Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] Though we’ll never know, my guess is that he’s a pervy little golden-shower loving voyeur who thought hiding in the tank of the port-a-potty would be a thrill. [/QUOTE] Don’t laugh, some guy in Morro Bay, California (in the 80’s) climbed into a Porta-Potty at Montano de Oro State Park for a looki-loo. He was prepared; he’d created a shower curtain for his clothes and was wearing waders. The park rangers arrested him and sent him away for a psych evaluation. Still gives me the creeps thinking about… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Slave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Art\_Slave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Slave)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/15 "2014-05-12T00:38:11Z")
Can anyone tell me if this story was written about in the Straight Dope column? I’ve been trying to track it down for an essay I’m writing about urban legends. I believe this story turned out to be a hoax. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/16 "2014-05-12T01:46:21Z")
> [@Art\_Slave](#): > > Can anyone tell me if this story was written about in the Straight Dope column? I’ve been trying to track it down for an essay I’m writing about urban legends. I believe this story turned out to be a hoax. Search for “Gary Moody” - they’re out there. Not this particular story but men in the holding tanks of port-a-potties. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/17 "2014-05-12T03:24:24Z")
I wonder if there was a stool pigeon. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/18 "2014-05-12T05:41:44Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Search for “Gary Moody” - they’re out there. Not this particular story but men in the holding tanks of port-a-potties. Gary Moody was the guy in NH. We had [one](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/peeping-tom-in-septic-tank-867543) here in Tulsa last year. (Yeah us!) I was going to post this earlier but I thought **Art Slave** was specifically asking about the Moro Bay guy. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go and take a few showers. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/19 "2014-05-12T16:32:16Z")
“Why did you take off all your clothes but keep your cell phone with you?” “I’d feel naked without my cell phone.” ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047/20 "2014-05-12T17:42:22Z")
You know, as unpleasant as those toilets are, the idea of some “Toilet Tom” lurking down there for a peek of my butt just makes it worse. I think I’ll just hold it till I get home. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-rescue-nude-man-from-porta-a-potty/452047.md?page=2)