by Adam Tait Staff | Photos by Still

Tags: Glastonbury Festival 

The worst festival toilet stories of all time

Pray none of these ever happen to you...

 

The worst ever festival toilet stories Photo: Still

Festivals are great fun, but there's one aspect no one enjoys: the toilets. The sight, the smell, the entire experience. None of it's nice, and everyone comes home saying the 'had a great time, but the bogs were awful'.

But you might feel a little better about your festival toilet experiences after reading this horror stories. Ever got your head stuck down a portable toilet? Found a man hiding under the seat? Raved in a tent covered in human waste? Well, some people have done just that... 

The girl with her head stuck down a toilet
'Poo Girl' became infamous in '09 after she had to be removed from a toilet by a crew of firemen. She got stuck after trying to fish her hand bag out of the pit. To be fair it had her train ticket and phone in it.

Man gets in toilet looking for more drugs
Perhaps this made sense at one point, perhaps this fella had seen Trainspotting too many times, but at Oregon Country Fair a man became trapped in the toilet pit after venturing in to look for drugs. Don't believe us? Check out this picture, taken by security at the event.

Woman finds man hiding under toilet seat
In 2012, at the Hanuman Yoga festival in Boulder, Colorado, one woman had the unpleasant experience of lifting the seat on a portaloo toilet to find a man hiding in the waste tank. The man later fled, covered in s**t, but was subsequently arrested and labelled a pervert. After initailly admitting to the crime, he later denied it.

 

Toilet truck blows instead of sucks when clearing Glasto mud
Organisers at 1998's Glasto thought they were being clever when they brought in a toilet truck to suck the six inches of mud from the dance tent so people could, well, dance. Unfortunately they had the truck set to 'blow' instead of 'suck'. You can imagine what happened next...

Port-A-Loo flipping leaves festival goer truamatised
Flipping port-a-loo's with people in them sounds funny third hand, but one unlucky festival goer revealed in a forum thread that he'd suffered post truamatic stress and had been off work after believing they were going to drown in other people's s**t in a flipped loo.

Glastonbury toilets sink in the mud
Heavy rain in 2005 saw not only the fields get water-logged, but the streams running through the site burst their banks. The festival toilets promptly sank in the quagmire, spreading human waste through the expanding sea. What's worse, one of the bars sank.

 Watch punter-shot footage of the 2005 flood below

And toilet troubles apparently don't discriminate, being a celebrity won't help you...

Calvin Harris trapped in port-a-loo by Madness
DJ and producer Calvin Harris failed to see the funny side when mischievous ska icons Madness trapped him in a port-a-loo at Camp Bestival. Festival organiser Rob Da Bank was forced to intervene when Harris emerged with a face like thunder.

Jameela Jamil stuck in port-a-loo during The Prodigy
T4's Jameela Jamil became fairly familar with festivals thanks to her job, but all the experience in the world won't stop you getting stuck in a port-a-loo apparently. And when The Prodigy are playing, no one can hear you scream.
 

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