Anyone lose a port-a-potty? One washed up on a Florida sandbar and folks were confused
It was a Florida mystery.
A port-a-potty was stuck on a sandbar in Englewood in Charlotte County since last Tuesday, and people were confused how it got there.
Tracy Doherty, a spokesman from Charlotte County Public Works, confirmed the agency removed the movable toilet on Wednesday morning. Its provenance is still unknown.
A worker at Stump Pass marina, Caston Arcan, first spotted the portable bathroom last week and sent out a drone to investigate, he told NBC 2.
Arcan’s screenshots show the bright red structure lying on its side in the middle of the sandbar on Lemon Bay.
The working theory is that recent high winds from a storm in the area blew the outhouse off someone’s private property or construction site.
A worker at Stump Pass who answered the phone on Wednesday told the Miami Herald that over the past week or so, folks have been checking it out on the marina’s live camera.
“It was stuck out there for over a week,” she said. “It was funny looking. All the birds were looking at it, like, ‘What is this?’ It’ll make a great story one day.”
Speaking of great stories, a decade ago, a baby grand piano was spotted washed up on a mudflat in Biscayne Bay in Miami Shores, puzzling locals to no end.
It turned out to be a burned-out prop from “Burn Notice” that a young man aimed to use in a college admissions video, but failed miserably.
