Weird News

Saturday's Camp Edison event has parallels in other recent episodes in which people became stuck in foul territory. In Michigan in 2023, a woman had to be hauled from an outhouse toilet after she fell in trying to retrieve a dropped Apple watch.

A female tourist visiting a meteorite crater near Alice Springs, in Australia's Northern Territory, spent several hours trapped in waist-deep excrement in April after a long-drop toilet she was using collapsed.

The woman, uninjured except for a few small cuts, and reeking of raw sewage, was literally "in deep shit", an eyewitness told local news reporters at the time.

As that witness put it: "There's shit, literal nappies, piss, all in that hole."