Put Out An ATB!

That's an All Toilets Bulletin. Someone has done a really crappy thing and stolen a giant toilet. The theft flushed the great dreams of the team who had built and raced the unusual vehicle, affectionately known as The Crapster.

The Crapster wasn't the fastest entry in last weekend's Red Bull Soapbox Race. But in the competition for best-loved entries, the Fremont crowd voted it No. 2.

So the five Colorado Springs, Colo., soapbox racers were more than a little dismayed when they woke Monday morning to find their U-Haul truck had been stolen from outside a downtown Seattle hotel. And whoever had been trolling for loot must have been surprised to open the cargo door and see the 7-foot-tall carpeted toilet.

Just two days earlier, The Crapster was rolling downhill.

Tom Valentine, who steered from inside the bowl, said it was his first race.

After success in Seattle, Valentine and crew talked of touring soapbox races across the nation. They even envisioned putting the toilet on pontoons so it could float.

Which is a bit of a switch. Things usually float in the toilet, but we digress. Police have no leads and have not identified a number one suspect as of yet.