Having lost various items in “long-drop” loos at campsites, I can contest that the pit isn’t the most hospitable looking environment, and if you do drop something in there the sensible plan is to just cut your losses and leave it there. An American gentleman however seems to have developed an affinity for being in there:
Portland’s Gary Moody has been caught — for a second time — hiding inside a pit latrine at a campsite. The first time he claimed he’d dropped his wedding ring (authorities sieved the biomass and found no ring); this time he claimed he’d dropped his shirt.
Least-impressed out of all this must have been the authorities who had been given the job of “sieving the biomass”.
[via BoingBoing]