---
title: "Helicopter Decimates Porta-Potties, Causes Literal Sh*t Show"
date: "2016-05-11"
modified: "2016-05-11"
authors:
  - name: "Sarah Sicard"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/sarahsicard/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/helicopter-decimates-porta-potties-causes-literal-sht-show/"
categories:
  - "Aircraft"
  - "Culture"
  - "Helicopters"
  - "Mandatory Fun"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
tags:
  - "European Command"
---

# Helicopter Decimates Porta-Potties, Causes Literal Sh\*t Show

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/19035725-1.png>)

A British Royal Navy Merlin helicopter flying over Dartmoor, England, took out several porta-potties on May 6.

The Merlin, which was carrying a cannon at the time, flew too close to the ground near a row of portable toilets. Sheer air force hurled them over as toilet paper flew like streamers across the sky.

“The first helicopter sent up a bit of a dust cloud and knocked over a bin but we never expected what happened next!” Phil Rhymes, the individual who recorded the incident, [told The Huffington Post](<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/helicopter-porta-potties-video_us_5731aa42e4b096e9f0928016>).

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The aircraft was lifting the field guns in preparation for the Ten Tors — an intense annual hike run by the British military.

Luckily, no one was injured within or by the rogue toilets.

***Watch the Merlin take out a row of porta-potties here.***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1VCg5VdP0s