Cape Coral resident urges city to remove porta potty misplaced by Ian

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — One Cape Coral resident is asking the city to help her remove an abandoned porta-potty Ian left behind on her property.

Brigitte Lakah evacuated when she heard Ian was headed our way. When she came back a week later, she was not expecting to find a portable toilet in her yard. 

“I looked at the inventory of the damage and I walked around and when I got to my dock I found this thing,” she said, referring to a porta-potty called Doody Calls. “It was laying right here on its side, then I asked my friend to help me put it upright and move it over to the end, which is where it is now.”

After 100 days, and many phone calls to the company, “Doody” still has not called her back to remove their mess.

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“It finally escalated and I went to the cape coral government and I told them I have stuff here that needs to be taken care of and he said he would take care of it but he didn’t,” Lakah said.

That was one month ago.

“It’s an eyesore,” she said.

Lakah said she does not know who else to call to remove it.

Alexia Tsiropoulos:

“Best case scenario, you want this out of here soon?”

Brigitte Lakah:
“Well I thought about pushing it back into the water but that would be polluting.”

Many neighbors along her canal have the same issue.

“There is actually more in the water that I took pictures of when I was on my boat so I’m not the only one that’s got one,” she said. “There are three or four that are floating around that I know of.”

NBC2 reached out to the city of Cape Coral for who should answer “Doody’s” call.

“Please come get your stuff out of my property,” Lakah said.