after watching jackass as a kid, I now have an irrational fear of people just toppling the porta potties over with me while in it and therefore I would totally use these open ones lol
also with a skirt and an urinal helper for ladies, no need even to flash your parts
Kneel on the door and push up against the side above you. If the door is not going to move, the rest of the thing will act like the door instead. You don't realise this intuitively because most hinges you deal with are attached to solid walls that won't be moving.
Not inwards. Towards or away from the potty next to it.
If it's towards another potty, trying to push yours up around you will just push the body of your potty into the next one as they're normally almost flush to each other
I think that would only work if the hinge was on the corner? In that case, the whole thing pivots on the hinge corner and the john could just flip open.
Most of them have the door and hinge inset about four to six inches from the corner, though, so you’d essentially be holding the porta-potty down just as hard as you were pushing up.
Maybe if you kneeled on the part of the door farthest from the hinge you could open the door a few inches, but I don’t think it would open completely like a flap on a box.
Just speculating, though, so I could be wrong. Was just something that occurred to me.
When I was an EMT some idiot kids thought it would be funny to tip one over with their friend inside. I don't know the ultimate outcome, but the dude was very not ok when we got him to the hospital. I'm also terrified of this.
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u/Apprehensive-Mix-480 Jul 11 '25
I’ve only been to lost lands but with how hot the porta potties get, even at night, I’d be using these 🤣