Patrol car hit by flying outhouse
A state trooper has survived The Attack of the Flying Toilet.and there's good news
It sounds like a really bad science-fiction movie from the 1950s, but an airborne outhouse wreaked havoc on a State Patrol car on I-90 near La Crosse on Sunday night, the patrol reported Friday.
Trooper Rich Vanko wasn't hurt, said his supervisor, Sgt. Bruce Holsclaw.
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Vanko had stopped to help a stranded motorist change a flat tire and was standing at the side of the road when a truck passed by and "all of a sudden, something hit his car," Holsclaw said.
At first, Vanko thought the truck had struck the patrol car, Holsclaw said. But it soon became apparent that the truck was carrying a shipment of portable toilets, and that one had fallen off.
The toilet shattered the flashing lights atop Vanko's patrol car and dented a fender, causing more than $1,000 in damage, Holsclaw said. Then the toilet bounced back into the highway, where it was hit by another truck and smashed to pieces.
Vanko was also lucky that the toilet was empty at the time, Holsclaw noted.
