Traffic delayed after man got out of car to have a poo in tunnel toll booth

Traffic was delayed when a man allegedly got out of a car in the Holland Tunnel outside New York and defecated in a toll booth.

Port Authority officers arrested the 21-year-old man they say was defecating inside the booth along the New Jersey-bound tube’s catwalk, officials said Friday.



Police were called into the tunnel at about 10pm on Friday upon learning that California resident Kevin Nam was walking along the catwalk. A motorist had apparently dropped him off in the middle of the tube, a Port Authority spokesman said.

When they arrived, they found Nam, who appeared intoxicated, answering nature’s call in a catwalk booth. Officials shut down both tubes to the lower Manhattan tunnel for a few minutes as officers took Nam to a Port Authority police precinct in New Jersey, where he was charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, the spokesman said.