Video: Man Jumps From John In Grab For Dangling Soho Sneakers

NEW YORK CITY, NY — A big dump from a portable toilet is the latest "only in New York" online moment.

Video posted by WhatIsNewYork on Wednesday afternoon shows a man preparing to leap from atop the commode — placed in the intersection of Greene and Prince in SoHo — at a pair of sneakers dangling from a wire.

The sneaker snatcher's first attempt goes badly, pairing two phrases that should never be put together: portable toilet and complete failure.

The man falls to the ground and knocks his head on the concrete, the video shows.

"RIP to that dude’s tailbone," one person commented.

Posted another, "I know I wasn't the only one waiting for the potty to tip over and him falling in."

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But eating pavement didn't stop the man.

After pushing the toilet away from traffic on Prince Street, he apparently brought it back. Two more videos show him jumping up and down before finally swinging the shoes around the wire and into his hands.

"A story of determination," the video's caption states.

Cheers can be heard in the street.

The shoes were hanging on the wire next to an artwork of sneakers emblazoned with "730" that appears linked to "asspizza," an artist with sizable following on Instagram.

It's unclear what the connection is between the figurative sneakers and the literal ones on the wire.

Some commenters didn't find the man's attempt to lift sneakers funny.

Tossing shoes over telephone wires in New York City is often held to be a memorial to someone who died, as many commenters pointed out.

"(This) is wild disrespectful," one commented.

"It's so wack that people will do this straight up disrespecting the people who put it there," another commented. "Next hipster bike i see painted all white is mine."