Bizarre Objects Found In Porta Potties

#1 A Camera

This is a little creepy. A man in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, later identified as James Francis Mazor, left a camera hidden inside a coffee cup placed inside one of the many porta=potty's at the Wiard’s Orchards and Country Fair in 2015. He got caught because the potty had only been in place for 24 hours and the fair had not yet opened, but the hidden camera had three images on it, those snapped by Mazor himself by mistake as he set up his spy cam. He was arrested on charges of installing or using a device for eavesdropping and surveilling an unclothed person, both of which are felonies.

#2 Undelivered Mail

If you've ever wondered why you haven't received your mail, this could be the answer! Residents of Macomb Township, Michigan were complaining that they were not getting packages or letters, and then a construction worker found out why. The United States Postal System (USPS) delivery person had skipped the recipients’ mailboxes in favor of depositing their correspondence in the porta-potty on his route. When the mail was found it had turned blue from absorbing the chemicals used to sterilize the toilets. Hundreds of undelivered checks, cards, letters, coupons, and personal statements were discovered just weeks before Christmas in 2016. The postal worker was discharged and arrested for mail theft.

#3 A Meth Lab

There was a strange smell coming from the porta-potty at the local golf course in Purcell, Oklahoma in February of 2013, but nobody used it much so it went unreported. After several months, grounds keepers noticed strange sports drinks and bottles of chemicals piling up in a nearby trash can, and called the police about the foul odor inside the porta-potty. Police determined that someone had used the toilet as a miniature meth lab, making the drug using the “shake-and-bake” method. Three bottles were found at the scene, but another had exploded before they police had arrived, blowing waste and hazardous chemicals all over the gold course. Fingerprints on the potty gave the police leads and several suspects were charged.

#4 Drugs And Drug Paraphernalia

It's not just meth being made inside porta-potties. In 2016, in Rogue River, Oregon, a man found several marijuana plants being grown in the hot blue plastic containers near a local tennis court at a park. Police believe the plants were stashed there to be picked up at a later time.

A potty full of heroin paraphernalia was removed from its site in Don Samuel Torres Park in Rochester, New York, across the street from a public school. While photographing the area in December 2016, Julie Oldfield spotted the items and notified the police. The city removed the porta-potty's from the site and alerted parents of the children who attended the school, but no one was ever charged or came to pick up their stash.

#5 A Fetus

One of the most bizarre things ever is a fetus found by the cleaning company that was vacuuming out a potty in Weld County, Colorado in 2008. The vacuum used by a sand-and-gravel company employee to pump out the company’s porta potty shut down when it encountered a third-trimester fetus discarded in the toilet. The porta potty was one of two at the remote company, which is located just south of the Wyoming state line. The potty had been cleaned by a person just two weeks before the incident, and police believe it was discarded in the 48 hours leading up to the pump malfunction. Authorities hope that the autopsy determines whether the fetus was stillborn or alive at birth.

#6 Pipe Bomb

As a precaution, police in Lakewood, Washington, evacuated 50 people from their homes and businesses in July 2013 after a sanitation worker found an explosive in a portable toilet. The explosive, a pipe bomb, was safely destroyed. It had failed to detonate because the fuse had apparently extinguished.

#7 A Newborn Baby

She delivered her baby by herself at a worksite in Long Wharf Park in Cambridge, Maryland. Then Candy Vigneri asked a construction worker for a cigarette and smoked it at a picnic table. When a male passerby headed for the porta-potty, she said, "I wouldn't go in there. I just had a baby." The man called 911 while Vigneri retrieved her newborn from the toilet waste. Covered in a blue antibacterial chemical agent, the newborn was unresponsive when EMT personnel arrived. She told the police that she had no idea she was even pregnant and was just as shocked as they were. They arrested her on charges of child abuse and reckless endangerment. The baby survived and placed in custody of social services.

#8 An Explosion

Karikaye Finch, a Washington woman was injured in port-a-potty explosion in 2014 when she and her family were visiting an Oregon park. She was thrilled to see a nearby porta-potty, but she certainly did not expect it to explode. She said she felt it rumble and felt a little pain, but the plastic shed ripped apart, leaving her sitting there covered in blood. The paramedics were called and she was immediately transported to a local hospital for treatment. Investigators later confirmed they found a device that consisted of a plastic water bottle, which was filled with “a mixture of chemicals.” A search of the park resulted in no other devices or leads even though two similar explosions occurred the same afternoon.

#9 Fireworks

A passerby noticed a porta-potty smoking and exuding a strange odor so she called the fire department to the scene in 2015 at an Ottawa, Canada park. Responding firefighters found “the remnants of firework paper,” Ottawa Fire Chief Jeff Carner said. However, they found no actual fire. Carner said that it was “apparent that someone had discharged some type of firework inside the potty.” No suspects were identified. Two days later, the same potty's burned to the ground after someone discharged fireworks inside one of the five in the same location, and they burst into flames because of the chemicals in the toilets.

#10 Suspicious Package

In June of 2016, a police robot retrieved a suspicious package reported by an employee who found it while cleaning a porta potty along Canalside waterfront in Buffalo, New York. The package contained an unknown liquid but was not explosive. The park was closed briefly but reopened in time for that night's concert event. The HAZMAT team could not identify the package. Police continued to investigate and examined video footage from security cameras in an effort to determine who placed the package in the public restroom. Authorities also want answers to what the package is and what motives the person or persons had in placing it in the public toilet. Nobody has been charged yet in the incident.

#11 Corpses

You may be alarmed, but several dead bodies have been found in porta potties. A porta-potty behind the Chapaton Pumping Station at the Lake St. Clair, Michigan, boat ramp contained a decomposing body. Although the identity of the man and the cause of death remain undetermined, authorities believe that the corpse, discovered on April 20, 2014, might be that of a homeless man who’d used the toilet as a shelter against the frigid winter cold.

In 2015 after a construction worker found the corpse of an unidentified male in one of the Paul Brown Stadium porta potty units, police beefed up security. Earlier in the week during a Chiefs-Bengals game, a fan collapsed in another public toilet and died at a local hospital. Two weeks before that, another unidentified 'homeless' man was found dead in one of the venue's potties. The public became suspicious, but there have been no other issues.

#12 More Corpses

In May 2007 in Hewitt, Texas, the badly decomposed body of a young woman who’d gone missing a few days earlier was identified as that of Southern Methodist University student Meaghan Bosch, age 21. At first, police believed that she had died of a drug overdose and was placed inside a construction site porta potty. James McDaniel, an ex-con whom she may have dated, was charged with homicide though he claims he is innocent. Her body was transported 90 miles south from Dallas to the Hewitt construction site and left in the porta potty. Only her cell phone, shoes, and purse were taken.