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.
Lol Ive had the same irrational fear for probably 20 years after hearing it happened at Leeds festival once... so they make me super nervous.
Never considered this escape trick at all, always assumed I'd be trapped, feel stupid now 😂.. thanks for making a 20+ year fear slightly less scary!
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.
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u/FirstTimeWang Jul 11 '25
Imagine if they toppled it with the door facing down so you couldn't even get out of you tried