Woman trapped waist-deep in human feces for 3 hours in toilet collapse filth hell, dragged out with rope

If you think you’re having a bad day, then trust me, the poor woman you’re about to read about had a worse one.

It began as a regular day for the (mercifully) unnamed woman. She’d been visiting relatives in Darwin, Australia, and was on her way home to Canberra with her husband and two kids when she felt the call of nature.

The family pulled over at the Henbury Meteorites Conservation Zone, about 90 miles from Alice Springs. This is a notoriously isolated area, so at this point, you take whatever bathroom facilities are available. And so she likely sighed and stepped into a “drop dunny”, a rudimentary toilet suspended above a deep hole that collects waste.

*incoherent disgusted screaming*

But beggars can’t be choosers, so she sat down… and disaster struck! The toilet collapsed, plunging her into the dank and disgusting pit below her. An eyewitness to the incident underlined that the pit was full to waist-height with excrement and urine, with “literally nappies” floating around her.

As she stood there, covered in human waste, presumably in shock, she must have at least clung to the hope that she’d be rescued immediately. And yet, reports underline that it took an incredible three hours for her to get out of there. It appears her husband and kids soon twigged that mom had been in the dunny for a little longer than usual, or perhaps heard her screams wafting over the meteorite conservation zone.

But they couldn’t get her out. And they’re certainly not climbing in after her to provide direct assistance. The woman’s ordeal only ended when her husband flagged down a local tradesman, who tossed a rope into the pit and used his car to drag her out.

She was then rushed to the hospital, but apparently didn’t suffer any serious physical injuries. However, can only imagine that this literal nightmare leaves deep psychological scars. This poor lady may never be able to sit on a toilet again without wondering if the ground is once again about to swallow her up. And will she ever truly feel clean again?

I think even after a week of scalding baths and scrubbing as hard as you can, I’d still be grossed out. But let’s try to look for a silver lining: if she’d been a solo traveller, there’s a chance nobody would have heard her screams until it was too late to save her.