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Just when you thought you'd seen everything: A porta-potty ‘Storrowing' on Memorial Drive

NBC10 Boston photojournalist Mark Garfinkel captured the bizarre scene

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Two porta-potties fell off a truck and right onto Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during Monday’s morning commute.

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"Storrowings," where overheight vehicles hit low-clearance bridges on Storrow Drive and other Boston roads, has become a common experience here.

But this one takes the (urinal) cake.

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A truck carrying portable toilets driving on Memorial Drive in Cambridge on Monday morning struck the Massachusetts Avenue overpass, knocking two porta-potties off the truck and depositing them smack in the middle of morning traffic.

The truck initially left the scene, but returned about 20 minutes later.

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No injuries were reported.

NBC10 Boston photojournalist Mark Garfinkel was on the scene and captured these images of the unfortunate incident:

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