The Crapster Returns!
A heartwarming ending to our earlier moving story about the theft of the Crapster, a seven foot tall racing toilet. It was finally flushed out by alert police officers, having been dumped in a field.
A 7-foot-tall toilet that was swiped from a Seattle parking lot earlier this month after competing in a local soapbox derby race was found Wednesday in a rural King County field.
The white commode with a blue velour seat, outfitted with tires and seating for one inside the bowl, was in a truck that was reported stolen on Oct. 1. The truck was found several days later, but the soapbox-derby racer, nicknamed "The Crapster," was gone.
A group of co-workers at Hewlett Packard in Colorado Springs, Colo., spent 25 days building their first soapbox-derby entry. On Sept. 29 the toilet finished the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Fremont in 75 seconds and was awarded second in crowd-favorite entries.
Tom Valentine, driver of The Crapster, was shocked that the toilet was found with minimal damage. He and teammates are deciding whether to pay nearly $800 to have it shipped back to Colorado.
"The police said they found it out in a field covered with a blue tarp," Valentine said. "I'm surprised they found it. I was thinking if they found it, it would be all beat up and at the bottom of a lake."
Police still have no leads on the public enemy number one who took the commodious commode. But the owners are positively overflowing with joy and flushed with pride over the recovery of their asset. And you know what that means!
It's potty time!
By feeblemind, Thursday, 18 October , 2007 @ 3:17 pm
Heh heh. Gaius, you have outdone yourself this time.
By quilly mammoth, Thursday, 18 October , 2007 @ 3:23 pm
A moving story indeed.
By Bleepless, Thursday, 18 October , 2007 @ 7:31 pm
Seattle: We’re hard, white and made for feces.