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LogDog75

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Fri Apr 24, 2026, 12:49 PM Apr 24

And you think your day was bad?

A woman in Australia fell through an outdoor latrine and was stuck waist-deep in poo for three hours.

A woman who was taking a toilet break while on a road trip in the Australian outback ended up getting stuck waist-deep in a pit latrine after it collapsed.

She was "trapped in the sewage pit for approximately three hours, until [she was] rescued by a local tradesman who happened to be passing by," authorities in the Northern Territory said.

An eyewitness told local news outlet NT News that the woman's husband managed to get the attention of the tradesman, who lowered a rope into the pit for the woman to hang on to then used his car to lift her out.

The process took over 45 minutes, said the unnamed eyewitness, who told NT News that there were "literal nappies", excrement and urine in the hole.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyedj166k5o

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And you think your day was bad? (Original Post) LogDog75 Apr 24 OP
Now she knows how some of us in the US feel reading the news every day Whyisthisstillclose Apr 24 #1
What did the unnamed witness *think* would be in the hole of an outdoor latrine? BlueSpot Apr 24 #2
I guess True Dough Apr 24 #3
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