Porta-potties
Mayukh Saha
Mayukh Saha
July 6, 2022 ·  2 min read

A Violent Windstorm Sends Porta-Potties Flying Into the Air Spewing Their Contents Onto the Crowd

A Tiffy Taffy Highlight Story: Sometimes there are stories that are just too good (or too funny) to keep locked away. That’s why we scour the archives and bring some of them back to enjoy again. They may make you smile or shed a tear, but they’re always meant to add a little positivity to your day. This story is from June 2018 from Enjoy! 

Toilet jokes usually never fail to make us laugh, but not all toilet incidents are simply humorous. In 2018, a sudden gust of wind in Commerce City, Colorado turned two porta-potties into high-speed flying pieces of harmful debris. People had to duck for cover and protection on a day that was going just fine thus far.

How did the porta-potties become so violent? Incidentally, the bizarre event was caught on camera.

porta-potty flies into air
Image Credit: Junk Media | Youtube

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Porta-Potties Become Safety Hazards

The video shows a bright and sunny day but viewers quickly see that something is off as people start running for cover, laying down, and grabbing their kids tight. Shortly, it becomes clear that a powerful and sudden wind had begun to batter the people at the park.

As it continued, the wind pushed out two porta-potties from within their shelters. One by one, the wind slams them into the cars parked just opposite them and whirls them away high up into the air. As they go, the video shows them twisting around and spewing their contents all over the place.

porta-potty flies into air
Image Credit: Junk Media | Youtube

A considerably big canopy tent was also almost in pieces by the time the wind was done. However, a group of men managed to hold onto it and keep it from flying away and becoming another piece of dangerous debris. The video had not taken long to become internet-famous. Fortunately, there were no reports of any severe injuries or harm due to the incident involving the porta-potties.

Chris Spears, a meteorologist, explained that such erratic localized winds can form during clear but hot summer days. The heat transfer than takes place between the ground and the air is usually the cause.[1]

porta-potty flies into air
Image Credit: Junk Media | Youtube



However, such erratic winds can also be fatal. A few months prior to this incident, a 6ft 58-year-old adult man in Denver was flung into the air by a freak windstorm in Colorado Springs. Joseph Boyer came down hard and slammed into the pavement. He was comatose for two weeks after sustaining severe injuries. Unfortunately, he passed away after two weeks.[2]

A literal and scary sh*tstorm, as the title of the video, implies!

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Sources

  1. VIRAL VIDEO: Crazy Windstorm Sends Porta Potties Flying Up In The Air.” CBS News. June 15, 2018.
  2. S**t! Horrendous moment freak gust of wind sends portable toilet 100ft into the air as it sprays ‘liquid’ on screaming crowd below.” Daily Mail. Rod Ardehali. June 15, 2018.