A woman who urgently needed to use the toilet during a car journey with her family through the Australian outback has found herself in a particularly precarious situation. She went to the toilet in a pit toilet, which is often seen in remote areas. That suddenly collapsed. The poor woman was in the shit for three hours. Literal.
Source: BBC
The woman was traveling home to Canberra with her husband and their two children after a trip to visit family in Darwin when the party stopped at a roadside toilet at the Henbury Meteorites Conservation Zone, about 145km southwest of the remote town of Alice Springs.
It was a pit toilet as you often encounter in the Australian outback: a simple toilet without a flushing system and essentially just a seat above a deep pit in which all feces are collected.
When the woman did her thing in the toilet, things went wrong. The structure collapsed and the Australian was then stuck up to her waist in excrement. She was finally rescued after three hours (!).
Pulled out with rope and car
“The woman was trapped in the sewer for about three hours until she was rescued by a local professional who happened to be passing by,” local authorities said. The woman’s husband had stopped the professional, after which they were able to pull the woman out of the well together with the help of a rope and a car. That whole process alone took at least 45 minutes.
To be safe, the woman was taken to a hospital, but she escaped with minor injuries, it said. She’s undoubtedly busy with shower session number 85 right now.
