What's the strangest thing you've fished out of a porta potty?

The strangest thing I've fished out was a live goldfish in a plastic bag from a restroom trailer at a music festival. It was still swimming when we pulled it up.

I've seen plenty of odd items in standard units on construction sites, like tools and hard hats. At events with alcohol, we find more personal items, phones, wallets, even jewelry. The holding tank in a deluxe unit once had a pair of expensive sunglasses, probably lost during a wedding.

Service frequency changes with use: weekly is normal, but festivals need daily pumping. Heavy use, heat, or flushing units require more visits. The cost depends on unit type, service trips, and how far we drive. That goldfish made us stop, no one expected that.

The strangest thing I've fished out was a full-size ranch branding iron from a standard unit we use for our seasonal cattle crews. Our driver found it during a service visit, completely intact but needing a serious cleaning. We run a long-term rental for our hands, and the service frequency is every two weeks since it's just a few guys using it. That schedule works for low-use remote sites like ours, but a high-traffic event needs daily pumping. The rental cost for our setup is driven by the distance the vacuum truck has to drive, which is 40 miles each way to our place.

The strangest thing I've seen in a permit application was a request for a single standard unit for a 5K race with 800 runners. The application had a detailed restroom plan, but the unit count was far below the units per person guideline for a short event with high intensity. We require event organizers to base their plan on the expected crowd, duration, and whether alcohol is served. A service frequency of once a week is standard, but for a one-day race, the unit would only need a post-event pumping. The rental cost for that event would be driven by the single delivery and the single service call, but the permit was denied until they added more units.