This was sent in by an Italian ScaryPlace reader.
A man was trapped for more than three sweltering days
in a portable toilet after fleeing from muggers, a Vienna newspaper said on
Tuesday.
The 63-year-old victim's ordeal began on Wednesday when
he was hit on the head and robbed by two men in Vienna, according to the Kurier.
The muggers then chased him through the streets until he spied the mobile lavatory
and locked himself in. But his assailants flipped the toilet over with the door
face down so that he could not get out, the paper said.
"He screamed again and again for help and banged
against the walls, but nobody heard him because it was on a very busy crossroads,"
a policeman was quoted as saying.
His traumatic experience ended on Sunday morning when
the man managed to break open one of the vents and flag down a startled passer-by.
Kurier said temperatures inside the cramped plastic container must have soared
well above the 86 degrees Fahrenheit heat outside during his 80-hour ordeal.
Wow, imagine the claustrophobia... imagine the smell! If he didn't have some significant phobias before this, I am sure he does now!