What's the weirdest thing you've found in a porta potty on a service run?

A half-eaten takeout container wedged behind the toilet seat on our framing job is still the weirdest one for me.

I am not on a vacuum truck, but I check our standard unit before the weekly service visit so the driver is not digging through crew trash. Phones show up constantly. Hard hats and gloves too. One summer a laborer stuffed a whole insulated lunch bag under the urinal trough because he did not want to walk it back to the truck. The socket set story tracks. Tools go in there when someone is mad or in a hurry and the truck is locked. The goldfish is a new one for me. On sites the pattern is usually tools, food waste, and the occasional phone that went in right before a pour. I tell the crew nothing goes in the tank that is not supposed to, and I still find cardboard and energy drink cans on the floor every Monday.

The weirdest find was a small drone, the kind with a camera, in a standard unit on a remote ranch. It was not in the holding tank but sitting dry on the floor, like someone just set it down and forgot it. That beats the usual gloves and phones. I have also found a perfectly folded, clean pair of jeans. The driver's rule is to never reach in for anything solid. We report items like that to the site contact, but on a ranch with no contact on site, it just sits there until the owner calls looking for it. The goldfish story is rough. In winter, a live animal would freeze fast with the deodorizer solution.

The weirdest thing I've seen in a permit review was a restroom plan that included a note about retrieving a wedding ring from a standard unit. The driver reported it during the post-event inspection. The permit office checks the service schedule and the removal date, but we never know what the vacuum truck will find. Luis, the driver's rule about not reaching in for solid items is standard safety procedure. The rental company reports unusual finds to the site contact or the event organizer. Inaccessible items are often left in the holding tank until the next service visit, especially if they pose no immediate risk to the unit's function.