MAN DIES, CRUSHED BY STREET RESTROOM

“Crushed by a urinal” is probably not the way you’d want to have your life ended. But that’s what happened to a workman in London, who died after he was crushed and trapped underneath a telescopic public urinal while working on the device in central London. The pop-up restroom is just that: a porta-potty that pops up out of the sidewalk to street level at night for people to use. The hydraulic unit, located at Cambridge Circus, was being repaired when it dropped and crushed the worker. Rescue crews used a winch to release him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
* What a way to go. And that hydraulic bathroom as well – what a way to go!
* Crushed by a hydraulic urinal is the Number One way to be killed by a, uh, hydraulic urinal.
* That’s it? It goes up and down out of the sidewalk? Couldn’t they at least have it go somewhere useful, like down to a subway platform?
* Telescoping urinals: elevating death to a new level since 2019.
* The porta-potty will be lowered to half-mast for 30 days.