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By @jammminjessie
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this has always been a bizarre nightmare of mine.being trapped in a porta-potty. actually i just got back from vacation, and on our way to joshua tree national park, we stopped at a place called pioneer town and my boyfriend thought it would be funny to tilt over the porta-potty i was occupying.. so i wasn t trapped. i can only imagine how scar this was for the man in Gettysburg National Military Park:
A tree fell on an occupied portable toilet in Gettysburg National Military Park on Friday, trapping a man who was using the john at the historic Civil War battlefield, authorities said.
May 3, 2021
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) Authorities say a man was rescued after a tree that fell during high winds trapped him inside a portable toilet at Gettysburg National Military Park in south-central Pennsylvania.
The Barlow Volunteer Fire Department said on its Facebook page that the crew was called to Little Round Top shortly before 4 p.m. Friday. Assistant Chief Joe Robinson told the York Daily Record that they found a tree atop a vehicle but no one inside, and park rangers then told them the tree had trapped a man in the portable toilet.
Robinson said crews treated it like a car entrapment, cutting away the tree with a chain saw and then cutting the portable toilet open with another saw.
A lucky Gettysburg battlefield visitor has cheated death after a giant tree crashed down on the portable toilet he was using, trapping him inside.
The poor occupant was rescued from the toilet at the Gettysburg National Military Park by Barlow Volunteer Fire Department just before 4pm on Friday.
The crew treated the man s predicament as a car entrapment and managed to cut him free from the porta-potty.
Assistant Chief Joe Robinson said the rescue team had cut away parts of the fallen tree and then open the portable toilet with a Sawzall to free the man.
A lucky Gettysburg battlefield visitor has cheated death after a giant tree crashed down on the portable toilet he was using, trapping him inside
By Chris and Rosie
May 3, 2021
It was truly a crappy day for one visitor at Gettysburg National Military Park. While using a porta-potty, an unnamed man found himself lucky to be alive after a tree fell, narrowly missing him . . . but trapping him inside the porta-potty. Fortunately, a park ranger was there and emergency crews were able to cut through the tree and into the porta-potty. The man was then taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where his injuries were said to be non-life threatening.
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