Where can I found an account of this unfortunate incident? I want to hear more, though I am not sure I am proud to admit that.
Yuck
Fallin in a privy
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#2
I raally doubt that you will hear of an episode of falling into a AT privy. Would really have to be on the stupid side to let it happen. It’s like asking how many people have fallen down their commode at home! However, maybe a more reasonable question would be, “How many hikers have been bitten or stung on the azz while they were sitting on an AT throne?”:eek:
Doubter
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#4
Doubter,
It has been mentioned twice today, once in the Alchoholism thread, and once in the Bragging About Gear thread, by someone who witnessed a day hiker fall in the whole left by a privy that had been moved. They even gave the poor guy a relevant trail name.
I think if you look at the wording of my original post, you can see that I didn’t just pull the idea out of thin air. Doubt less, pay attention more.
Yuck
system
#5
Yuck, I’m so broke, that if if cost a nickel, I couldn’t afford to pay attention!
I missed those post you referred to—sorry. I’ll search for them! Still wondeing about insect bites while on an AT john. Just the thought of a black-widow spider lurking under the wooden seat gives me the creeps.
Doubt less
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#6
This thread almost brought me to tears again as it reminded me about my sad tale of woe in 2002… I was about 2 days north of Damascus when I visited the privy whilst passing by a shelter. I somehow fumbled and happened to drop my roll of TP into the privy! I looked down in dismay and almost cried.
Finally, I went to the shelter and borrowed a few unused pages from the register, some for now and some for later. There has to more than one use for everything doesn’t there, even the hiker register?
Over the next few days I managed to “cadge” pieces of TP off fellow hikers until I could reach the next supply stop.
Lesson learned:- after that episode I always carried a small separate roll of TP in bottom of my pack.
Downunda
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#7
I read of a real incident but it involved a kid. Don’t remember if it was on the AT or not. But this kid got his kicks by jumping up and down on a privy seat. He fell in twice. The second time, he spent the whole night in the “bottom half” of the privy before someone found him the next morning.
Scoop
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#8
in '02 the seat of the velvet rocks (NH) privy was on some boards that had been laid across the hole. The boards were so rotted that when i parked myself on the can, the whole thing sagged noticeably. they stayed intact, but i betcha someone got swallowed up later on
mindlessmariachi