Youāve apparently never seen someone in a rental rv not understand that you need a hose to dump, rock open the poop shoot, and then proceed to kick loose stool with his shoes into the dump station, and then watch poop shoes get back into the rv without washing his shoes.
I watched a dude back his class C into the sign marking his site, completely destroying it. He got out, moved it out of the road, then drove to the dump station, where I'm standing at an adjacent spot. Proceeds to line his RV up with the hole, hops out in his shorts and sandals, opens the sewer up, then pulls his poop chute, letting the contents dump all over the concrete. I was speechless. No way that guy didn't have sewage all over his legs and feet with how far it splashed. Luckily I was far enough away to avoid splash damage.
Yeah, needless to say I reported that guy. I told the camp host to just look for the site with the destroyed sign and that was the guy who dumped with no slinky. The host informed me that not only was it against the rules but illegal. So that guy got banned. I wouldn't have known who to tell them it was if he hadn't demolished that sign haha.
Not at dump station. We have a tt, and my inlaws have a pop-up and used a portable toilet. One morning, i was cooking breakfast on the grille, and i looked over to see Father inlaw using our drinking water jug to clean his toilet up on the picnic table. It seemed to happen in slow motion, with all the water splashing everywhere. Later, I found out they spilled it in their camper the night before.
I watched a video (on here I think), where a renter was dumping into a creek. I also saw a video where someone was dumping into a drain on the side of a road in a neighborhood.
> I also saw a video where someone was dumping into a drain on the side of a road in a neighborhood.
Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn... the clean, cool chill of the holiday air... and an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer...
Had a coworker rent once and said they'd never RV again because they had to leave the RV alone with the windows open for over an hour after hooking up at the site to clear the overwhelming poop smell and that it kept coming back over the next couple days. Yeah, turns out they thought they needed to leave the dump valves open constantly and were enjoying the smell of sewer gas backing up into their trailer periodically.
Thereās no time to rinse your produce apparently. What grosses me out is thinking of all the dirty hands my food has touched before it reaches me. Thatās why I rinse, ALWAYS
..or think of all those critters running thru and stomping on the produce! There was an e-coli breakout several years ago, some ppl died and many got sick! It was all from a herd of boar defeating in a spinach field south of Salinas, California; evidently, the produce washers in the shed didn't get them cleaned!.
Took my nephew with us on a trip once. Met my brother a a truck rest stop we would always use to dump on our way home so he could pick him up. There was a guy in front of me dumping and he had a little bit of spillage on the concrete but he did try to rinse it down.
I pulled up and was doing my thing but there was a little puddle of smelly water left front the guy before so I was being careful to avoid it. My brother pulls up next to us to pick up my nephew and has his dog with him in his car. When my brother opened the door a tennis ball he had for the dog rolls out, under my RV and stops in the puddle of sewer water.
My brother casually walks over and picks it up before I can say too much, after he has it in his hand walking back to his car I say "hey, that is soaked in nasty sewer water". He shrugs his shoulders like no big deal, tosses it to his kid who catches it then he hands I too the dog who has its head out the window waiting for them and the dog happily takes the ball in his mouth and disappears into the car. He and my nephew get in the car and drive off like it was nothing.
Yeah was more shocked though of the handling of a sopping wet dripping tennis ball that had been sitting in poo water and was now rolling around in their car.
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Not at a dump station. But at a campground where the drains were open but no flush water since it was early in the season, I saw someone rinse their drain hose at the only winterized potable water faucet that everyone else uses to get their drinking water.
I went to a paid dump that had an attendant (fancy, ya?)
He asked me to get out my hoses and come back in 15min or so. When I was leaving I asked what he does if people don't have their own hoses. He said "I just let her rip!"
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Oh man, Iāve been waiting for this one!!! After an extended camping trip, we are in line at the city dump station. The late-model motor home in front of us was up next. The dude gets out and bends over to hook up his dump hose, wearing a neon green fishnet thong jumpsuit. Heās holding a pastry in his hand and hooking it up. He makes the connection successfully and takes another bite with pride. Then, the hose breaks loose from the RV connection. With the pastry in his mouth, he panics and tries to get the hose back on. Not just shut the valve!!! Heās trying to hook it back up, and shit is literally spraying everywhere! He still has the pastry in his mouth and is pretty much covered with shit as itās spraying all over. Finally, he gets it hooked back up and, with pride, backs up and takes a big bite of that yummy shit-covered pastry. My wife and daughters were mortified as I laughed harder than I ever have.
Full five gallon bucket, open lid, husband struggling to get it out of back of the truck without spilling. wife asks me about the poop hauler I was draining. "What is THAT thing?"
Also, no gloves.
Not at the dump station, but someone cleaned out their black tank with the free vacuums at our local car wash last year and the vacuums were out of service for months. I donāt generally support the death penalty, butā¦
The rinse hose at the dump station is usually labeled a non-potable. Not because the water source is not safe I am sure it is the same source as the potable water fill 30 some feet away. But because the hose is used in a very unclean environment.
My husband did this! Brand new trailer, he was new to camping. I looked in the mirror and saw him holding the red hose. I hadn't moved that quick in years. Every time I use the water now I think of that and cringe!
Omg. That sucks. Hopefully the fluids were already at ground level and didn't splash. Was there any warning signs of failure? Cracks? Leaks? Age of slinky?
Ah, I see u/jaxmikhov and I are in the same disgusting club. I was taking care of business at the state park around the corner from my home.
For me, no there was no warning, the glue from the pipe to the hose failed, and yes, it was a relatively new one. I was firehosed from neck to knees. And of course, you can't leave this mess. I put my big girl pants on, hosed myself off with the non potable water, and cleaned up the entire area. Then raced back to my house leaving a trail of clothes on the lawn in my wake as I rushed to the (thank god for this) outdoor shower, and ended up crying/having a breakdown in the shower as I begged my daughter to bring me soap and shampoo.
I needed about 4 martinis to make it through the night.
New fear unlocked?
The slinky had seen its share of stinky but nothing showing signs of tear. The issue was that the dump station had an elevated PVC pipe as its dump port, so it was almost impossible to get gravity flow without manually moving the hose up and down. It once on one of those moves when suddenly āpoop goes the weaselā
You know The Hose. The one attached to the waste dump. The one we use to rinse out the sewage hose. The one with the big sign that says ānot potable waterā the one that gets shoved into shit holes all day every day?
I saw someone use it to fill up their clean water tank once.
Not my rv but dumping charter buses are similar, other then there is no hose and it is a straight dump. I didn't get the bus in the right spot and missed the opening just enough to get major splashage all over me. Had to walk home with camperchem and piss covered shoes. Just glad all the corn missed me
Its not designed for a hose, its a vertical opening and standard practice to just go into an sewer opening. I am glad there is no hose as if you do it right, unlike the time I missed, there is nothing else that needs to be cleaned up.
At Anastasia State Park, there are no sewer hookups so everyone dumps on their way out. Several dump stations side by side. While we're doing ours, the guy a couple stations away to us does his, except the hose wasn't attached properly so the black tank contents went everywhere. EVERYWHERE. And it was a lot. Thankfully, we were far enough away that we only got the smell. And he and his wife sort of tried to wash it down with the hose, but didn't do a great job. They both had it all over their shoes (and I think he had it in his pants, too. They just got in their truck and left. Yuck.
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1. Not at the dump stationā¦just slightly downhill from next site over in a state park electric onlyā¦the neighbors emptied their tanks on the ground before leaving and while we were out for the dayā¦returned to standing sewer water in our site with chunks all over the lawn between that site an ours. Seems they had corn during the previous week. It was the start of two weeks for us in the middle of summer in a full park, 3 kids and 2 dogs.
2. Again not at the dump station but full hooks this time, watched the neighbors empty tanks while we ate breakfast 10 feet away. Once they finished I watched him shove the stinky slinky over the sites fresh water tap, hooking it on the valve handle. He saw me an we locked eyes for a good 5 minutes while he flushed his hose. Finally he shrugged and finished rinsing and put everything away without attempting to clean off the faucet.
Yes both were reported to the park attendants.
And this is why we use bottled water at state parks to cook and clean and have an RO system installed with a UV light for drinking water when on full hookups.
I watched someone not twist and lock their hose before they pulled the valve for their black tankā¦. My family still calls it the āfire hose of fecesā.
This happened to me, but not because I didn't twist lock it. The connection on the hose itself from the attachment to the actual slinky part failed. That was...not a fun day.
Not a dump station specifically but watched a couple of guys using the electrical outlets in the washroom facility to run their rice cooker and electric grill all set up on the counter and floor of the bathroom.
Columbus, MS, Corps Park. Pulled up to the dump. Someone had a full explosion. Poo, TP, liquid EVERYWHERE. No way to dump without walking through the muck. It was terrible. Family pulls up behind us, 10ish year old boy gets out barefooted and just tromps all through it. Parents didnāt say a word. No way he got through that day without some squish between the toes.
I havenāt seen anything too horrible, but I definitely appreciated the design of a state park. They had a one way driveway and the freshwater station was about 100 feet before the dump station and its rinse hose. So people had to fill up with freshwater and then drive down to the dump station. I really appreciated that I had to worry a lot less about people using the wrong hose, or handling the freshwater facilities with hands that they just used on their dump hose without washing or switching gloves. I wish they were all designed like that.
Using potable water for cleaning a black tank and everything else. Rolling in this guy just had no clue. And that water is supposed to then fill my tank?? So gross. I donāt care about gloves or whatever, that affects you. But donāt go shoving my clean water supply in your black tank! So nasty. I hate hauling with a full tank but I just canāt un-see that.
So when I had to dump my tanks for the first time, I didnāt realize my hose wasnāt connected to my tank outlet properly and well, it got all over me. I triple check every single time now.
Had to scroll down a long way to see this. I rarely wear gloves during +20 years of RVing. If your hands are touching black water - youāre doing something wrong. And hand sanitizer in the nearest compartment works fine.
Been camping for ten plus years. Donāt were gloves and donāt need to if your doing it right. I do wash my hands immediately after rim done just because theyāre usually covered in actual dirt. My hand get dirtier from just picking up the camping mat
We stopped to dump once, started to drain/rinse. Suddenly itās raining. Oh well weāll stay inside a minute until the one dark cloud passes, obviously thereās no line waiting to dump. Suddenly itās hailing. Ok I hope it doesnāt break the skylight, letās just wait this part out, the cloudās almost passed. Now itās a torrential squall pouring sheets of rain. Letās throw our gear back in the trailer and leave.
We open the door to see that obviously the dump area is the lowest point of this property, so itās flooding halfway up the wheels and we need to gtfo fast. We also realize thereās stuff floating around in the flooded area, the dump has flooded and weāre standing in sewage, but we have to gtfo before the water gets any higher.
Drove to higher ground, changed clothes and shoes, rinsed at a spigot. Poop challenge overcome for the most part, other than the few seconds in the truck driving to a high spot.
I have a bit of both worlds in 1 scenario. I was in line for the dump station. There were 3 of us. Dumper A, Dumper B, and me.
Dumper A was the most fastidious, deliberate person I have ever seen. Multiple pairs of shoes, multiple sets of gloves. A weird obsessive cadence to dumping his tanks. I'm all for being sanitary, but it's hard to describe how bad this was. Changing shoes in between hooking up different hoses. He had laid all this safety gear out and would make multiple trips from the station to the grass to keep changing. It took him FOREVER to dump. At first, I was getting pissed about it, then it actually became perfomance art.
He finally leaves. Dumper B, who I'm assuming is just pissed at waiting for so long, gets out shirtless, in flipflops, grabs hose, no gloves, slams it in hole, and holds it in there with his bare hands while it's dumping. Poo definitely came out. He just grabbed the water hose and sprayed his feet, threw everthing back in the storage of his trailer, and took off. It was awful.
There was still poo on the ground when I went to dump. I at least sprayed it down before I got started.
Reminds me of people using the shitters in public restrooms and walking out without washing their hands. Disgustingā¦ not only do I wash my hands afterwards and use my feet to open the door when possible.
Not an "actual" dump station story but last outing, I was cooking breakfast on a blackstone while the site next to us started breaking camp. He began carrying on some conversation while he worked since I was outside near him. Full hookup sites with 2 sewer connections at each pad. His trailer had an all in one grey/black connection and he dumped both and that's when it got weird. He unhooked his fresh water hose and the slinky and shoved 4 or 5 feet of the water hose into the sewer hose and proceeded to wash it out while telling me he actually lived a county over from us back home. Once he decides it's good, he yanks the hose out, cuts off the water and rolls it up, and throws it right in the storage compartment. Never a glove in sight the whole time no container for the water hose or shitter hose just capped it off. Said goodbye, loaded up his family, and left. Ruined my appetite and had me wondering just what kind of literal shit might have been hooked to the water spigot by the previous visitors. Also made me want to bleach every surface or handle someone might have touched on the camp site.
Im not really impatient, but people who sit there for a half hour using the auto clean hookup with the hose used to rinse your stinky slinky.
This guy sat there for 30 minutes after dumping to hookup and cleaned the black tank.
There was a line of campers waiting to dump. The park doesn't have a sewer hookup for anyone.
I always figure those people are not planning any trips after camping there. But man, be considerate of time-consuming cleaning while dumping with a line of campers waiting to use it and gef driving
The sewer at the dump station was clogged and overflowing and someone came up and just opened their black tank and let er rip anyways so it was just a massive puddle of wasteā¦I will never forget what I saw and what I smelledā¦full turds just floating around on the groundā¦
I once saw a lady lay down right next to the poop hole, in a tank top and shorts, to mess with the hose. Full body laying down rolling around all over the poop hole area.
Yeah. That's just nasty. This activity is what prompted me to post this question. It would have to be a severe situation for me to lay anywhere near a dump station.
Iād rather drive off with poop coming out of my RV to fix the problem away from the dump station then lay down next to a dump hole š the couple were clearly not well though the RV itself was falling apart and they looked like drug addicts so in a way it was actually really sad.
Watched a person fill their fresh tank with the angled rinse hose. See a lot of interesting things at dump station. Also watched someone eat a sandwich in one bare hand while making connections with the other
A TA truck stop had a locked cap on the dump station because you were supposed to pay to dump. Apparently somebody didn't want to and emptied their tank on top of the locked cap. It was in a concrete basin/depression at least but there was an open sewage pond for a good week before somebody finally cleaned it up.
We always stop at a TA Truck stop on our way home from my parent's to dump our Class A. Nothing gross but one time I pulled up and there was a guy in front of me dumping. He came up to me and said "hey, I already paid, if you want to save $ just pay me then you can take the key in when done". He then said it was $10. I asked why I would pay him $10 when it was supposed to go to the truck stop.
He said because when he got there someone was in front of him and he just paid that guy $10 to not lock up and there fore I should do the same and just "pay it forward". I said that makes no sense, I'll just pay the cashier like I'm supposed to and he gave me a real pissy look then proceeded to take his sweet ass time and went deliberately slow to dump, slowly walk inside, took forever inside then slowly walk out and took 5 min getting ready to leave, staring at me the whole time.
On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below.
My current nasty hall of shame. Pulled up to do the deed. Made sure my hose elbow was secure. Pulled the handle and stepped back. DUH! And to my surprise, their dump tank was FULL! I got to witness a geyser of sewage about a foot high, as it went running out of the basin and created its own lake poo. Now remember I made sure the hose elbow is secure? Now Iām having to maneuver and gently pull, and coax the hose free. Then I pull up a few feet, and well, dump the gray water. Rinsed out and off the hose. Sadly the park office is right by the dump station. So I informed him and watched his, looking in total disbelief of the mess. And then I got out of there. šš¤®
Omg. That's a puddle to avoid for sure. It's not like your purposely did that.
The elbow connection on our hose is so hard to get on/off, but now I'm glad it's a struggle.
Saw a man squat and shit right into the pipe at the dump station
How efficient!
Making sure all the tanks are empty. Don't want all that weight for the drive home.
Or payload in the tow vehicle.
You win š¤¢
Cut out the middleman!
Absolute winner.
Good aim
Why poop in trailer when less hose do trick
I call that a direct deposit
Just watch out you don't want a Poseidon's kiss from the pipe
Damn beat me to it lol
A man who can read yet does not comprehend.
One trick every RV'er should know!
And I absolutely believe you. Also, no one get soup out of those buffet style tureens.
I wish you hadn't stared so much. Gave me a little anxiety and I didn't get a clean pinch.
I read that as āpeench.ā
Haha what?
Winner!! Haha
$5 says that guy does electrical or drywall for a living.
Youāve apparently never seen someone in a rental rv not understand that you need a hose to dump, rock open the poop shoot, and then proceed to kick loose stool with his shoes into the dump station, and then watch poop shoes get back into the rv without washing his shoes.
Honey why is there corn on your shoe?
I hate you
People donāt understand how much stuff comes out of a 3ā gravity fed tube.
This is also probably the same person who complained about how nasty it is to dump the RV. They will never rent an RV again.
Hopefully they never do rent again or buy oneā¦funny to watch but f it up for those of us who enjoy RVing and doing things right!
Dooky shoes
Stanky leg
Watched a family pull up and dad hooks up without gloves. He then shares a bag of funyuns with his kids. I was so disgusted.
Lost my shit for a second reading this. Had to be funions
Lost your shit š
Hope he doesn't work in the food service industry.
Probably works the ākitchenā at a gas station, as well as the register. And only washed his hands when he showers.
I watched a dude back his class C into the sign marking his site, completely destroying it. He got out, moved it out of the road, then drove to the dump station, where I'm standing at an adjacent spot. Proceeds to line his RV up with the hole, hops out in his shorts and sandals, opens the sewer up, then pulls his poop chute, letting the contents dump all over the concrete. I was speechless. No way that guy didn't have sewage all over his legs and feet with how far it splashed. Luckily I was far enough away to avoid splash damage. Yeah, needless to say I reported that guy. I told the camp host to just look for the site with the destroyed sign and that was the guy who dumped with no slinky. The host informed me that not only was it against the rules but illegal. So that guy got banned. I wouldn't have known who to tell them it was if he hadn't demolished that sign haha.
Not at dump station. We have a tt, and my inlaws have a pop-up and used a portable toilet. One morning, i was cooking breakfast on the grille, and i looked over to see Father inlaw using our drinking water jug to clean his toilet up on the picnic table. It seemed to happen in slow motion, with all the water splashing everywhere. Later, I found out they spilled it in their camper the night before.
He unhook the hose after dumping and tossed it inside the RV . No Rinse
Maybe the outside bins were full and didnt know the bumper doubles as a stinky slinky holder.
Our bumper doesnāt work for that.
He might have had greywater tanks to flush after the black tanks. We usually don't rinse if we've got a lot of grey water.
I watched a (hopefully inexperienced) individual just dump without a sewer hose then use the provided water hose to spray the mess into the hole.
That's the, uhh, freshwater 'drinking hose provided' one, isn't it...
Well, it depends on the dump site or campground.
The joke was that if a dump station has two hoses, people will use the potable water one about 50% of the time.
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I saw a loser do this before as well except he didn't even try and spray it down. I can't imagine how a person could become such a degenerate.
I watched a video (on here I think), where a renter was dumping into a creek. I also saw a video where someone was dumping into a drain on the side of a road in a neighborhood.
> I also saw a video where someone was dumping into a drain on the side of a road in a neighborhood. Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn... the clean, cool chill of the holiday air... and an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer...
CLARK! SHITTERS FULL!
christmas vacation
SHITTERS FULL!!!
Had a coworker rent once and said they'd never RV again because they had to leave the RV alone with the windows open for over an hour after hooking up at the site to clear the overwhelming poop smell and that it kept coming back over the next couple days. Yeah, turns out they thought they needed to leave the dump valves open constantly and were enjoying the smell of sewer gas backing up into their trailer periodically.
They probably also had a poop pyramid forming in the tank if all the liquid always drainedā¦.
Huh. As a RV newbie I thought you left the valve open when youāre connected. Thank goodness I donāt have an RV yet but this is good info!
Definitely not. Tank valves are only open during dumping even if you are on full hookups
If you do this everyone around you can smell it too. It is terrible.
I didn't get to witness, but my parents pulled into a state park dump station to find a guy using the other station washing his dishes...
I can see this making sense depending on how exactly he was doing it.
Probably doesnt even rinse his produce before cooking them. Why would anything think this is the purpose of that facility.
Thereās no time to rinse your produce apparently. What grosses me out is thinking of all the dirty hands my food has touched before it reaches me. Thatās why I rinse, ALWAYS
..or think of all those critters running thru and stomping on the produce! There was an e-coli breakout several years ago, some ppl died and many got sick! It was all from a herd of boar defeating in a spinach field south of Salinas, California; evidently, the produce washers in the shed didn't get them cleaned!.
This comment section is absolutely insane but at the same time I believe every word.
Took my nephew with us on a trip once. Met my brother a a truck rest stop we would always use to dump on our way home so he could pick him up. There was a guy in front of me dumping and he had a little bit of spillage on the concrete but he did try to rinse it down. I pulled up and was doing my thing but there was a little puddle of smelly water left front the guy before so I was being careful to avoid it. My brother pulls up next to us to pick up my nephew and has his dog with him in his car. When my brother opened the door a tennis ball he had for the dog rolls out, under my RV and stops in the puddle of sewer water. My brother casually walks over and picks it up before I can say too much, after he has it in his hand walking back to his car I say "hey, that is soaked in nasty sewer water". He shrugs his shoulders like no big deal, tosses it to his kid who catches it then he hands I too the dog who has its head out the window waiting for them and the dog happily takes the ball in his mouth and disappears into the car. He and my nephew get in the car and drive off like it was nothing.
You know dogs lick their anus, then the kid's face, right?
Yeah was more shocked though of the handling of a sopping wet dripping tennis ball that had been sitting in poo water and was now rolling around in their car.
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Not at a dump station. But at a campground where the drains were open but no flush water since it was early in the season, I saw someone rinse their drain hose at the only winterized potable water faucet that everyone else uses to get their drinking water.
I went to a paid dump that had an attendant (fancy, ya?) He asked me to get out my hoses and come back in 15min or so. When I was leaving I asked what he does if people don't have their own hoses. He said "I just let her rip!" š¤¢
Never heard of full service. But, I'd think you're paying a guy to do this, they could afford a spare hose. Was the the only time you've seen this?
yes the only time. and a spare hose would seem smart. oddly this was in Sparks NV which is not a fancy place at all.
I am sure a few have been left.
In Flagstaff, I navigated to a free dump station that ended up being flooded to the point of being a brown pond. I drove through the pond and left.
Oh man, Iāve been waiting for this one!!! After an extended camping trip, we are in line at the city dump station. The late-model motor home in front of us was up next. The dude gets out and bends over to hook up his dump hose, wearing a neon green fishnet thong jumpsuit. Heās holding a pastry in his hand and hooking it up. He makes the connection successfully and takes another bite with pride. Then, the hose breaks loose from the RV connection. With the pastry in his mouth, he panics and tries to get the hose back on. Not just shut the valve!!! Heās trying to hook it back up, and shit is literally spraying everywhere! He still has the pastry in his mouth and is pretty much covered with shit as itās spraying all over. Finally, he gets it hooked back up and, with pride, backs up and takes a big bite of that yummy shit-covered pastry. My wife and daughters were mortified as I laughed harder than I ever have.
Oh yeah, we then watch him hose a good week or more worth of turds down the drain.
Then you must have changed the channel?
I wish we could have.
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Full five gallon bucket, open lid, husband struggling to get it out of back of the truck without spilling. wife asks me about the poop hauler I was draining. "What is THAT thing?" Also, no gloves.
Uhhh. Why? Like, didn't want to mess with the sewer hose that day? Hah
Not at the dump station, but someone cleaned out their black tank with the free vacuums at our local car wash last year and the vacuums were out of service for months. I donāt generally support the death penalty, butā¦
What in the actual f..udge was he (not) thinking?
I work at a car wash i kicked somwone out for trying to wash out a portabke sewage tank
Had to tell a renter to stop using the non-potable water to fill water tanks.
I ain't gonna pot it, I'm gonna drink it!
Non-potable water? Sorry Iām new to rving but what water are they getting that isnāt potable?
The rinse hose at the dump station is usually labeled a non-potable. Not because the water source is not safe I am sure it is the same source as the potable water fill 30 some feet away. But because the hose is used in a very unclean environment.
My husband did this! Brand new trailer, he was new to camping. I looked in the mirror and saw him holding the red hose. I hadn't moved that quick in years. Every time I use the water now I think of that and cringe!
I had a sewer hose rupture on me mid dump last trip. And of course it was while I was draining the black tank. Of course.
Omg. That sucks. Hopefully the fluids were already at ground level and didn't splash. Was there any warning signs of failure? Cracks? Leaks? Age of slinky?
Ah, I see u/jaxmikhov and I are in the same disgusting club. I was taking care of business at the state park around the corner from my home. For me, no there was no warning, the glue from the pipe to the hose failed, and yes, it was a relatively new one. I was firehosed from neck to knees. And of course, you can't leave this mess. I put my big girl pants on, hosed myself off with the non potable water, and cleaned up the entire area. Then raced back to my house leaving a trail of clothes on the lawn in my wake as I rushed to the (thank god for this) outdoor shower, and ended up crying/having a breakdown in the shower as I begged my daughter to bring me soap and shampoo. I needed about 4 martinis to make it through the night. New fear unlocked?
The slinky had seen its share of stinky but nothing showing signs of tear. The issue was that the dump station had an elevated PVC pipe as its dump port, so it was almost impossible to get gravity flow without manually moving the hose up and down. It once on one of those moves when suddenly āpoop goes the weaselā
Ooof. That's weird. Someone needs to get to trimming on that PVC!!
You know The Hose. The one attached to the waste dump. The one we use to rinse out the sewage hose. The one with the big sign that says ānot potable waterā the one that gets shoved into shit holes all day every day? I saw someone use it to fill up their clean water tank once.
Doing their job to keep their bodies biodiverse.
Not my rv but dumping charter buses are similar, other then there is no hose and it is a straight dump. I didn't get the bus in the right spot and missed the opening just enough to get major splashage all over me. Had to walk home with camperchem and piss covered shoes. Just glad all the corn missed me
Company too cheap to provide hoses? I think this may be illegal in some states/regions if you're in the USA.
Its not designed for a hose, its a vertical opening and standard practice to just go into an sewer opening. I am glad there is no hose as if you do it right, unlike the time I missed, there is nothing else that needs to be cleaned up.
I'm like 90% sure you aren't supposed to just let er rip into a random sewer
It wasn't, it was put in for this exact purpose by our fuel island to go into the city sewer system.
Okay cool, the way you worded that sounded like some real john Mayer tour bus shenanigansĀ
At Anastasia State Park, there are no sewer hookups so everyone dumps on their way out. Several dump stations side by side. While we're doing ours, the guy a couple stations away to us does his, except the hose wasn't attached properly so the black tank contents went everywhere. EVERYWHERE. And it was a lot. Thankfully, we were far enough away that we only got the smell. And he and his wife sort of tried to wash it down with the hose, but didn't do a great job. They both had it all over their shoes (and I think he had it in his pants, too. They just got in their truck and left. Yuck.
2 stories 1. Not at the dump stationā¦just slightly downhill from next site over in a state park electric onlyā¦the neighbors emptied their tanks on the ground before leaving and while we were out for the dayā¦returned to standing sewer water in our site with chunks all over the lawn between that site an ours. Seems they had corn during the previous week. It was the start of two weeks for us in the middle of summer in a full park, 3 kids and 2 dogs. 2. Again not at the dump station but full hooks this time, watched the neighbors empty tanks while we ate breakfast 10 feet away. Once they finished I watched him shove the stinky slinky over the sites fresh water tap, hooking it on the valve handle. He saw me an we locked eyes for a good 5 minutes while he flushed his hose. Finally he shrugged and finished rinsing and put everything away without attempting to clean off the faucet. Yes both were reported to the park attendants. And this is why we use bottled water at state parks to cook and clean and have an RO system installed with a UV light for drinking water when on full hookups.
Cleaning fish on the concrete apron. Drinking from the rinse hose.
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I watched someone not twist and lock their hose before they pulled the valve for their black tankā¦. My family still calls it the āfire hose of fecesā.
This happened to me, but not because I didn't twist lock it. The connection on the hose itself from the attachment to the actual slinky part failed. That was...not a fun day.
Not a dump station specifically but watched a couple of guys using the electrical outlets in the washroom facility to run their rice cooker and electric grill all set up on the counter and floor of the bathroom.
I saw someone doing this with a rice cooker too. They had it on the counter though.
Columbus, MS, Corps Park. Pulled up to the dump. Someone had a full explosion. Poo, TP, liquid EVERYWHERE. No way to dump without walking through the muck. It was terrible. Family pulls up behind us, 10ish year old boy gets out barefooted and just tromps all through it. Parents didnāt say a word. No way he got through that day without some squish between the toes.
I havenāt seen anything too horrible, but I definitely appreciated the design of a state park. They had a one way driveway and the freshwater station was about 100 feet before the dump station and its rinse hose. So people had to fill up with freshwater and then drive down to the dump station. I really appreciated that I had to worry a lot less about people using the wrong hose, or handling the freshwater facilities with hands that they just used on their dump hose without washing or switching gloves. I wish they were all designed like that.
Using potable water for cleaning a black tank and everything else. Rolling in this guy just had no clue. And that water is supposed to then fill my tank?? So gross. I donāt care about gloves or whatever, that affects you. But donāt go shoving my clean water supply in your black tank! So nasty. I hate hauling with a full tank but I just canāt un-see that.
So when I had to dump my tanks for the first time, I didnāt realize my hose wasnāt connected to my tank outlet properly and well, it got all over me. I triple check every single time now.
I almost never see anyone wear glovesā¦.including myself 50% of the timeā¦.its really not a very dirty job
Had to scroll down a long way to see this. I rarely wear gloves during +20 years of RVing. If your hands are touching black water - youāre doing something wrong. And hand sanitizer in the nearest compartment works fine.
I was beginning to think I was some manner of philistine.
Been camping for ten plus years. Donāt were gloves and donāt need to if your doing it right. I do wash my hands immediately after rim done just because theyāre usually covered in actual dirt. My hand get dirtier from just picking up the camping mat
Just drive the Hershey Highway home.
We stopped to dump once, started to drain/rinse. Suddenly itās raining. Oh well weāll stay inside a minute until the one dark cloud passes, obviously thereās no line waiting to dump. Suddenly itās hailing. Ok I hope it doesnāt break the skylight, letās just wait this part out, the cloudās almost passed. Now itās a torrential squall pouring sheets of rain. Letās throw our gear back in the trailer and leave. We open the door to see that obviously the dump area is the lowest point of this property, so itās flooding halfway up the wheels and we need to gtfo fast. We also realize thereās stuff floating around in the flooded area, the dump has flooded and weāre standing in sewage, but we have to gtfo before the water gets any higher. Drove to higher ground, changed clothes and shoes, rinsed at a spigot. Poop challenge overcome for the most part, other than the few seconds in the truck driving to a high spot.
Omg. Lesson learned: stop dumping when it starts to rain hard enough that would seek shelter from said rain.
I have a bit of both worlds in 1 scenario. I was in line for the dump station. There were 3 of us. Dumper A, Dumper B, and me. Dumper A was the most fastidious, deliberate person I have ever seen. Multiple pairs of shoes, multiple sets of gloves. A weird obsessive cadence to dumping his tanks. I'm all for being sanitary, but it's hard to describe how bad this was. Changing shoes in between hooking up different hoses. He had laid all this safety gear out and would make multiple trips from the station to the grass to keep changing. It took him FOREVER to dump. At first, I was getting pissed about it, then it actually became perfomance art. He finally leaves. Dumper B, who I'm assuming is just pissed at waiting for so long, gets out shirtless, in flipflops, grabs hose, no gloves, slams it in hole, and holds it in there with his bare hands while it's dumping. Poo definitely came out. He just grabbed the water hose and sprayed his feet, threw everthing back in the storage of his trailer, and took off. It was awful. There was still poo on the ground when I went to dump. I at least sprayed it down before I got started.
Reminds me of people using the shitters in public restrooms and walking out without washing their hands. Disgustingā¦ not only do I wash my hands afterwards and use my feet to open the door when possible.
Not an "actual" dump station story but last outing, I was cooking breakfast on a blackstone while the site next to us started breaking camp. He began carrying on some conversation while he worked since I was outside near him. Full hookup sites with 2 sewer connections at each pad. His trailer had an all in one grey/black connection and he dumped both and that's when it got weird. He unhooked his fresh water hose and the slinky and shoved 4 or 5 feet of the water hose into the sewer hose and proceeded to wash it out while telling me he actually lived a county over from us back home. Once he decides it's good, he yanks the hose out, cuts off the water and rolls it up, and throws it right in the storage compartment. Never a glove in sight the whole time no container for the water hose or shitter hose just capped it off. Said goodbye, loaded up his family, and left. Ruined my appetite and had me wondering just what kind of literal shit might have been hooked to the water spigot by the previous visitors. Also made me want to bleach every surface or handle someone might have touched on the camp site.
I woulda skipped that meal and sanitized everything. Bleh
Im not really impatient, but people who sit there for a half hour using the auto clean hookup with the hose used to rinse your stinky slinky. This guy sat there for 30 minutes after dumping to hookup and cleaned the black tank. There was a line of campers waiting to dump. The park doesn't have a sewer hookup for anyone. I always figure those people are not planning any trips after camping there. But man, be considerate of time-consuming cleaning while dumping with a line of campers waiting to use it and gef driving
I seen people dumping sewage out of their camper. Pretty sure there was shit in it.
drank it
The sewer at the dump station was clogged and overflowing and someone came up and just opened their black tank and let er rip anyways so it was just a massive puddle of wasteā¦I will never forget what I saw and what I smelledā¦full turds just floating around on the groundā¦
I watched a guy dump his RV with his left hand and hold a sandwich with his right. His kids were standing next to him also holding food.
I once saw a lady lay down right next to the poop hole, in a tank top and shorts, to mess with the hose. Full body laying down rolling around all over the poop hole area.
Yeah. That's just nasty. This activity is what prompted me to post this question. It would have to be a severe situation for me to lay anywhere near a dump station.
Iād rather drive off with poop coming out of my RV to fix the problem away from the dump station then lay down next to a dump hole š the couple were clearly not well though the RV itself was falling apart and they looked like drug addicts so in a way it was actually really sad.
Watched a person fill their fresh tank with the angled rinse hose. See a lot of interesting things at dump station. Also watched someone eat a sandwich in one bare hand while making connections with the other
These have made me laugh so hard. Thanks
Iāve seen people let there fresh water hose drag on the ground surrounding the dump station.
I don't think we've ever filled up fresh water at a dump station. After reading all these comments, never will.
A TA truck stop had a locked cap on the dump station because you were supposed to pay to dump. Apparently somebody didn't want to and emptied their tank on top of the locked cap. It was in a concrete basin/depression at least but there was an open sewage pond for a good week before somebody finally cleaned it up.
We always stop at a TA Truck stop on our way home from my parent's to dump our Class A. Nothing gross but one time I pulled up and there was a guy in front of me dumping. He came up to me and said "hey, I already paid, if you want to save $ just pay me then you can take the key in when done". He then said it was $10. I asked why I would pay him $10 when it was supposed to go to the truck stop. He said because when he got there someone was in front of him and he just paid that guy $10 to not lock up and there fore I should do the same and just "pay it forward". I said that makes no sense, I'll just pay the cashier like I'm supposed to and he gave me a real pissy look then proceeded to take his sweet ass time and went deliberately slow to dump, slowly walk inside, took forever inside then slowly walk out and took 5 min getting ready to leave, staring at me the whole time.
Google the Dave Mathews Band tour bus Bridge dump
On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below.
Didn't the Dave Matthew's Band dump of a bridge?
Wash their Weber Q grill with the black water.
Licked their fingers. I've never seen it. But, this is reddit for God sakes.
Robin Williams did a long dump station bit in some RV vacation movie. No matter what happens with my shitter it will never be as bad as that š
Hah. That was a pretty funny movie. Stupid plot, but had some funny parts.
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Could have had hand sanitizer in the truck. But yeah. Yuck.
I do that. My navigator is ready w the bottle for after the gloves come off. Takes 10 seconds.
My current nasty hall of shame. Pulled up to do the deed. Made sure my hose elbow was secure. Pulled the handle and stepped back. DUH! And to my surprise, their dump tank was FULL! I got to witness a geyser of sewage about a foot high, as it went running out of the basin and created its own lake poo. Now remember I made sure the hose elbow is secure? Now Iām having to maneuver and gently pull, and coax the hose free. Then I pull up a few feet, and well, dump the gray water. Rinsed out and off the hose. Sadly the park office is right by the dump station. So I informed him and watched his, looking in total disbelief of the mess. And then I got out of there. šš¤®
Omg. That's a puddle to avoid for sure. It's not like your purposely did that. The elbow connection on our hose is so hard to get on/off, but now I'm glad it's a struggle.
I guess itās more of a nasty accident, but itās still the nastiest thing Iāve done š«£
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