Anyone else see the porta-potty blow across the street at Gate?

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16 years ago 03/10/2008 11:17am EDT

I also posted this under the "Brian Sell hit by Tree thread", but it's just so funny I thought I'd post it on its own. I have not stopped laughing about this for the last 2 days, so I thought I'd share it with everyone. This happened between 3 and 4 miles, and at 5:30 pace, so anyone who was there and also saw it can tell you I'm not making this up.

There was a porta-potty with it's door open in the direction of the wind. The wind was blowing in through the open door and had nowhere to go. The whole thing slid all the way across the entire road and almost took out the pack of guys right in front of me. The whole time there was a volunteer holding on to the thing trying to stop it, and it was just dragging him along with it. It was straight out of like a three stooges movie.

16 years ago 03/10/2008 11:26am EDT

re: Doodlebug

16 years ago 03/10/2008 11:29am EDT

re: metro gnome

i was wondering where those usual portalets were at mile 4 or so.... guess that explains it.

16 years ago 03/10/2008 11:54am EDT

re: Doodlebug

Something very similar happened to me once. One of the most embassasing things ever. Fortunately nobody I knew was around to see it.

One incredibly windy day a couple of years ago, I was finishing a run around the Charles River, coming back into the fitness club in Cambridge there where I was a member. Now this area is BioTech central and they were building a whole bunch of new buildings. So there were a lot of construction vehicles and porta potties.

Right at the corner of Linksey Way and First St there was a porta-pottie up on some wooden planks. Again the wind was howling and among those buildings it really picks up. In the instant I rounded the corner, right next to the porta-potty, the wind kicked up incredibly. It blew so hard that it got inside the porta potty door. The door flew open violently, whacking me right on the head.

This stunned me. I was seeing stars and almost fell over. I staggered back a bit. Of course now that the door was open, it was resenting all that extra surface area to the wind. Can you guess what happened next?

Yes, the entire Porta Potty blew over on top of me. In the span of about 2 seconds I had been slammed on the head and trapped beneath a porta-potty

Fortunately in about a minute, someone walked by and, as the wind died down, was able to lift the thing off of me. The guy was genuinely concerned but also trying really hard not to laugh.

Watch out for Porta Potties. They mean us harm.

16 years ago 03/10/2008 12:00pm EDT

re: Average_Joe

Hahaha.... fantastic story. Didn't hurt anything too badly, I hope.

I can't say I have ever seen the wind take out a portapotty, but I have definitely seen one tipped on its side with the door on the bottom and someone trapped inside. Not pretty.

16 years ago 03/10/2008 12:02pm EDT

re: Average_Joe

Average_Joe wrote:
Watch out for Porta Potties. They mean us harm.

In 2003 at Vegas marathon they were blew over like crazy. Many at the start were down, and I was nervous using one because they felt like they'd fall over when you were inside.

Rememeber though, a porta-potty saved Tom Hanks. ;-)

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